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first aid, theory of odiication, and household maiiafrt^ment. At Arle- 

 sey College. Bedfordshire, a home and colonial training course for 

 women was opened in 1008. The full course of training extends over 

 two years, and includes housework in all its branches, the care of 

 bees, pigs, and poultry, and simple gardening. Duri ig the first six 

 months of the course students do the cooking the first week, the 

 housework the second, and the third they go into the garden. Then 

 they can go outside and specialize or work in the house entirely. 

 Not more than 8 students, between the ages of 18 and 30. are re- 

 ceived for training at one time. 



The University of Manchester has established a threo-3'ear course 

 in agriculture leading to a degree in science. 



In Scotland a lecturer on agriculture and rural economy has been 

 appointed in the United College of St. Salvator and St. Leonard, of 

 St. Andrews University, the oldest university in Scotland. A course 

 of 50 lectures on the principles of agriculture was offered in 1008-9, 

 and this course was arranged to meet the requirements of candidates 

 for the national diploma in agriculture, including illustrated lec- 

 tures supplemented by demonstrations in the field, practical work in 

 the laboratory, and excursions to some of the best farms in the 

 neighborhood. 



An encyclopedia of agriculture, published in Edinburgh in 1008, 

 contains a rather full and interesting discussion of agricultural edu- 

 cation in the British Islands, beginning with the first attempt to 

 institute systematic instruction in the theory and science of agriculture 

 in 1700, when a chair of agriculture was established in the University 

 of Edinburgh. In Ireland the first state-supported school of agri- 

 culture was established in 1838, and in England the first agricultural 

 college was founded at Cirencester in 1845. The development and 

 present status of agricultural education in England. Ireland, and 

 Scotland, and the part taken by state and local governments in this 

 educational work are described. 



In Ireland the promotion of agricultural instruction was continued 

 under the auspices of the department of agriculture and technical 

 instruction and much attention was given not only to instruction in 

 the Koyal College of Science, Dublin; Albert Agricultural College, 

 Glasnevin, and other agricultural stations and institutions, but also 

 to special instruction for the preparation of teachers, and to itinerant 

 instruction in all parts of the island. 



CANADA. 



In nearly all of the Canadian provinces there has been great ac- 

 tivity in promoting the ditrerent |)hases of agricultural education. 

 This was particularly true of the development of courses for the train- 



