232 REPOET OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



The government of Cape Colony is establishing the South African 

 School of Forestry at Tokai, to provide a course of instruction for 

 training young men for practical and scientific work in South African 

 forestry. Provision is being made for ten resident students at Tokai, 

 who will be received from the South African College and other similarly 

 equipped institutions in the colony after havmg completed the 

 theoretical work in forestry. 



The Botanical and Agricultural Department of the Gold Coast 

 provides annually an elementary course in theoretical and practical 

 agriculture at the Aburi Garden to train teachers in agriculture for 

 the public schools. The department also maintains apprenticeships 

 to prepare young men for subordinate positions in the department or 

 for overseers of farms and plantations. 



BOLIVIA. 



The Bolivian ministry of colonies and agriculture has issued an 

 elementary text-book of agriculture for the primary schools of that 

 country. It contains chapters on the nature of soils, preparation of 

 soils, tillage ex])eriments, influence of climate, irrigation and fertilizers, 

 seed time and harvest, cereals, legumes, root crops, forage plants, 

 textile plants, sugar plants, dye plants, oil-producing and aromatic 

 plants, arboriculture, zootechny and breeding, and agricultural 

 machinery. The last two subjects are treated with great brevity, 

 occupying only two and one-half pages of the pamphlet. 



BRITISH WEST INDIES. 



Instruction in agriculture in Antigua, British West Indies, includes 

 lessons at the grammar school in agricultural science and practical 

 work in the school garden. It is claimed that pupils pursuing such a 

 course are able upon leaving school to deal much more intelligently 

 and successfully with agricultural problems than those who have no 

 such training. Attention is also given at the grammar school to the 

 training of teachers for giving some instruction in agricidtural subjects 

 in the elementary schools. With this object in view courses of lectures 

 on the elements of plant physiology and on tropical hygiene have been 

 given to the teachers of the elementary schools of the island and to the 

 students of a female training college in Antigua. The importance of 

 school garden work is also emphasized. At the ]irosent time 72 boys 

 are taking the work in agricultural science and 40 teachers are pursuing 



the training courses. 



CANADA. 



Sir William ^Macdonald, who established ^lacdonald College at 

 St. Anne de Bellevue, near Montreal, has deeded ihe ])r()])erty to 

 McGill University and pro\ided an endowment of $2,000,000, besides 



