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farmers during the winter months and night schools durino^ the sum- 

 mer months is a possible solution of the difliculty. 



WESTERN AUSTRALIA. 



No ormmized system of'ajj^ricidtural instruction for adult farmers 

 lias been adopted in Western Australia. The department of agricul- 

 ture occasionally sends out experts to farmers' meetings and to indi- 

 yiduals who apply for specific information. In addition to these a 

 course of lectures on agricultural subjects is giyen by officers of the 

 agricultural department during the winter months in the museum of 

 the department of agriculture at Perth. 



The course for 1004 extended from June 3 to September 2, one 

 lecture each week. 



The acting director of agriculture states that — 



Farms and orchards are visited by the officers of the department and instruf- 

 tion given on the spot. In the centers of the various farniinj,' districts lectures 

 are given at irregular intervals. At these lectures discussion is encouraged, 

 and when possible they are illustrated by models, views, or lime-light lantern 

 slides. 



CANADA. 



The farmers' institutes of Canada are not conducted under the 

 direction of the general goyernment, but each proyincial territorial 

 authority organizes its work independently. 



The Proyinces and territories haying institute organizations are 

 the Northwest Territories — British Columbia, Manitoba. Ontario, 

 Quebec, New Brunswick, Noya Scotia, and Prince Edward Island. 



The Dominion department of agriculture has undertaken to aid 

 the Proyinces in their institute work by acting in an adyisory ca- 

 pacity. The liye-stock commissioner of the dej^artment is the offi- 

 cial to whom has been committed the work of furnishing expert 

 advice to the several Provinces and of aiding the institutes so far as 

 the general government has gone in giving this movement official 

 recognition. 



In order to encourage the provincial directors, the Dominion de- 

 partment agrees, on condition that certain forms of institute organi- 

 zation are eifected and certain prescribed rules observed by the 

 several Provinces, to send out expert speakers to aid in institute 

 work, paying the salaries and expenses of these lecturers from the 

 time they leave home until they reach the confines of the Province 

 requiring their services, and the Province requiring the services of 

 these men pays their salary and expenses from the time they reach 

 the confines of the Province until they return thereto on their return 

 trip. 



