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Title: EDINBURGH AND EAST OF SCOTLAND COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE

Reference number: 10895

Date: 1945*

Production company: [Edinburgh School of Agriculture Dept. of Photography]

Sound: silent

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 11.41 mins

Description: Overview of the activities of the Edinburgh and East of Scotland Agricultural College.

Shotlist: EDINBURGH AND EAST OF SCOTLAND COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE. PHOTOGRAPHED AND PRODUCED BY MEMBERS OF THE STAFF. THE COLLEGE IS SITUATED AT NO. 13 GEORGE SQUARE, EDINBURGH Street scene same, exts. building. THE EXPERIMENTAL FARM AT BOGHALL gv same THE GARDEN AT LIBERTON gvs same THE WORK OF THE COLLEGE INCLUDES TEACHING, ADVISORY SERVICES AND INVESTIGATION TEACHING BEGINS AT THE RURAL SCHOOL inst. teacher gives boys lesson on "the bean"; boys hoe runs. DAY CONTINUATION CLASSES FORM A LINK BETWEEN THE RURAL SCHOOL AND THE COLLEGE THE COLLEGE CLASSES INCLUDE LABORATORY WORK AND LECTURES ints. laboratory, teacher points to projection screen and blackboard DEMONSTRATIONS ON PLANT AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY gv's working with Clydesdale horses, man moving wooden structures; crop lecture in field. SURVEYING AND ENGINEERING surveying in the Meadows; instruction on tractor, c/u maintaining? engine. HORTICULTURE AND BEEKEEPING gvs same ADVICE MAY BE OBTAINED ON BUSINESS METHODS, CROPS LIVE STOCK, DAIRYING, POULTRY KEEPING, GARDENING AND BEEKEEPING c/u letter; gvs bacteriological examination of milk. C/u letter; gvs men sample soil quality, ints lab. PROBLEMS ARISING IN ADVISORY WORK BECOME THE SUBJECT OF SPECIAL INVESTIGATION PROBLEMS IN PLANT HUSBANDRY men apply pesticide; sheep on hillside PROBLEMS IN ANIMAL HUSBANDRY woman feeds chicks, man checks piglets. DEMONSTRATIONS ON EXPERIMENTAL WORK ON THE FARM AND AT AGRICULTURAL SHOWS Men examine experimental field; College exhibition THE END