JACK'S EDUCATION OR HOW HE LEARNT FARMING. BY PROFESSOR HENRY TANNER, F.C. S. SENIOR MEMBER OF THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE, MAR 180 BODLEIN LONDON: CHAPMAN AND HALL, 193, PICCADILLY. 1879. [The right of translation and reproduction is reserved.] 191. j. 131 PREFACE, THE following papers have been prepared for the purpose of showing the manner in which the Science Classes, under the Government Department of Science, enable a youth to prepare himself for the Government Scholarships, and by a tolerably complete course of Science instruction qualify him for learning any industrial occupation with a thoroughly intelligent mind. Advantage has been taken of the opportunity, to show that such instruction may be made to diffuse itself beyond the youths thus taught, so as to be of direct advantage to many who are apt to consider themselves so well informed, as to be above all necessity for knowing the why and the wherefore involved in their daily duties. The instruction in science given in Colleges has been reviewed from the stand-point of practical requirements, and with special regard to such a |