288 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



A poultry demonstration train, fitted up with improved poultry- 

 appliances and other illustrative material, was recently sent out for 

 8 days in Wales. Lectures and demonstrations were given along 

 the route, the advantages of cooperation in marketing receiving par- 

 ticular emphasis. The train is believed to have been the first of the 

 sort in Great Britain, but it is reported that it was very favorably 

 received and that the plan will be given an extended trial in other 

 sections. 



BRITISH WEST INDIES. 



A farm school has been established at Hope Gardens, Kingston, to 

 give boys of about 15 years of age as complete a training as possible 

 in all branches of practical tropical agriculture. The course will 

 extend tlirough three years and lead to a certificate. The school 

 opened January 25, 1910. 



CANADA. 



An act of the recent legislature of British Columbia sets aside 170 

 acres at Point Grey, a Vancouver suburb, for the site of a provincial 

 university, and makes a grant of 2,000,000 acres of pubHc lands for 

 its maintenance. Plans are being formulated for the erection of over 

 30 buildings. One important group is to be provided for a college 

 of agriculture, with accompanying schools of forestry, domestic 

 science, and veterinary science. A central farm in connection with 

 the college is proposed, as well as several branch farms in the Province. 



The annual report of the Ontario Agricultural and Experimental 

 Union for 1909 contained the first annual report of the schools' divi- 

 sion of the union. At last year's meeting of the union there was 

 appointed a schools' committee, composed of Prof. S. B. McCready, 

 director; Prof. H. L. Hutt, secretary; Profs. C. A. Zavitz and E. J. 

 Zavitz and Mr. E. A. Howes, representatives on agriculture, forestry, 

 and school gardening, respectively. The work was divided into a 

 cliildren's gardening section and a schools' experunent section. In 

 the former the union offered to sell 1-cent seed packets to children 

 for their home or school garden plats, and in the latter teachers were 

 ofi'ered seed free for four observation plats either m the school ground 

 or adjoining fields, including a plat in agriculture to show the seven 

 different species of wheat, in forestry to show different maples, in 

 horticulture to show the different kinds of onions, and in floriculture 

 to show different kinds of nasturtiums. Applications were received 

 from 116 schools for the children's seeds and more than 12,000 seed 

 packets were sent out. To make the work uniform throughout the 

 Province, a definite allotment of seeds was made for each grade in 

 pubhc-school work. The ])ackets were accompanied by a book of 

 instructions and a blank form for the teacher's report on the work in 



