264 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



ing of teachers of ai£i'icultnre aiul home economics at Macdoiiahl 

 Colk^<i:e. Ste. Aiiiie dc liellevue; at the Ontario A^ricnUnral C'olK'ye, 

 Gneli)li; and at the Manitoba A<;ricultni'al College, ^^'innipeg. The 

 law of Manitoba now reqnires that every teacher in the Province 

 takin<j^ normal work shall take the teachers' course at the aj^ricul- 

 tural colle<^e before receiving a certificate. The work includes field 

 husbandry — importance of field crops in Avestern Canada, insect 

 economy, grain judging, and identifying foul weed seeds; animal 

 husbandrv — lectures on the relation of live stock to modern airricul- 

 ture. principles of feeding, development, and characteristics of the 

 more important breeds of live stock, together with practical demon- 

 strations in the judging pavilion; dairying — milk testing, composi- 

 tion of milk, and its products, principles of cream separation, churn- 

 ing, and related questions; horticulture, forestry, and botany; and 

 some work in mechanics. 



Teachers' courses are also offered at the Nova Scotia Agricultural 

 College, Truro, with an instruction staff drawn from the agricultural 

 college and the normal school. The course is arranged so that the 

 work can be completed in three summer vacations, or if students have 

 had considerable science training, in less time. Following the lead 

 of the Ontario education department, Xova Scotia gives teachers 

 completing this course and receiving a rural science diploma an extra 

 grant of money. 



Quebec reports rapid progress in the introduction of horticulture 

 into the primary schools of that Province. In 190G there were 425 

 students in elementary horticulture, and in 1907 the number increased 

 to 1,258. The agricultural school at Oka is being converted into an 

 agricultural institute to be affiliated with Laval University, and the 

 government has considerably increased the grant to this school to 

 enable it to raise its teaching to a higher plane. 



The Ontario Agricultural College, at Guelph, has erected a number 

 of new buildings, including a farm mechanics building. Prof. S. B. 

 McCready, of that college, has published an outline of a two-year 

 course in agriculture suitable for high schools and collegiate institu- 

 tions. It includes suggestions for instruction in agriculture, physics, 

 chemistry, botan}', horticulture, agronomy, animal husbandry, dairy 

 husbandr}', poultry keeping, farm carpentry, and farm economics, 

 items of equipment needed and their cost, and regulations to govern 

 agricultural departments in high schools and collegiate institutes. 



A college of agriculture has been established in connection with the 

 University of SaskatchcAvan, at Saskatoon, with "W. J. Rutherford, 

 formerly deputy commissioner of agriculture of the Province of 

 Saskatchewan, as dean of the college. The college is to include de- 

 partments of animal husbandry and veterinary science; field hus- 

 bandry and soils; farm mechanics, including carpentry, blacksmith- 



