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THE Midland Agricultural College at Sutton Bonington has become the University College of Nottingham School of Agriculture. The Midland Agricultural College has had a long and distinguished association with agricultural and dairying education. The agricultural section started as the agricultural department of University College, Nottingham, in 1892. In 1895 the Midland Dairy Institute was established at Kingston-on-Soar, and in l900 the agricultural department was moved out into the country to link up with the dairy side. The subsequent development of the Midland Agricultural College was due very largely to the four local county councils of Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lindsey and Nottinghamshire. In 1942 the governing body made recommendations to the associated county councils that the immediate needs of agricultural education could be served by the development of farm institutes in the counties and that the College should be reserved for higher agricultural education and research ; in 1943 the University College of Nottingham instituted a Faculty of Agriculture and Horticulture, and the principal of the Midland Agricultural College was appointed to the staff of the University College as the professor of agriculture. University College, Nottingham, has bought out the county council interests in the Midland College, and the money will be used by the councils in the development of county farm institutes.
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University College, Nottingham : School of Agriculture. Nature 159, 566 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/159566b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/159566b0