BULLETIN 215] [AUGUST, 1913 



Ontario Department of Agriculture 



INSTITUTES BRANCH 



Demonstration Lectures in Domestic 



Science, (Cooking) Sewing and 



Home Nursing 



Courses, each consisting of ten Demonstration-Lectures, will be held as follows : 

 1. September 29 to December 6, 1913; 2. January 5 to March 1-1; 3. March 16 to 

 May 23, 1914. 



Similar courses given under the direction of the Institutes Branch of the 

 Department of Agriculture during the winter of 1912-13 proved most successful, 

 and a liberal appropriation from the Federal Grant has been set apart for an 

 extension of the work during the season of 1913-14. 



The Institutes desiring to take advantage of the oifer will please fill out the 

 application form, found in the back of this book, and forward the same either to 

 the superintendent, or to the district secretary of the riding in which the branch is 

 located. The district and branch officers will be expected to confer in planning 

 for the courses and if possible send applications from groups of institutes con- 

 veniently located, so that the instructor may readily travel from place to place, 

 holding a course at a diiferent point each day, from Monday to Friday inclusive, 

 covering the same route from week to week. The classes, will, for the most part, be 

 held in the afternoon, beginning at 2 or 2.30 o'clock. Arrangements will be made 

 in special cases for the holding of classes in the evening, if desired. The institute 

 officers are at liberty to form classes of High School Girls for the study of Domestic 

 Science (cooking) and Home Nursing, instruction to such classes being given either 

 in the late afternoon or in the evening. Where High School classes are formed, 

 the Institute and the class concerned will be expected to furnish all supplies and 

 provide a hall or a class room free of cost to the Department. A charge of 25c. 

 for the course will be made for each pupil, ten cents to be poid to the instructor, 

 and fifteen cents to be used to defray incidental expenses. 



There should be no difficulty in securing suitable halls in which to hoUl classes. 

 In some cases public buildings are placed at the disposal of the Institute, free of 

 cost, while at other points, Sunday School rooms, or other rooms in connection 

 with churches, are available, and occasionally the school trustees place a room at 

 the disposal of the Institute for the regular class as well as the High School class. 



The contract forms found on the succeeding pages will indicate the nature of 

 the work to be undertaken. Following these contract forms, is a brief report of 

 what has already been done in Demonstration-Ijecture work, together with state- 

 ments from some of the Instructors and those wlio have taken advantae-e of the 



