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In Victoria there exists a college at Dookia and another at 

 Longerong. There is also a school of horticulture at Richmond. 

 To !N'ew South Wales belongs the banner for furnishing the 

 greatest opportunities for agricultural education. Its university 

 at Sydney grants a degree of B. Sc. to students from the colleges 

 of St. Paul, St, John, St. Andrew, the Woman's College, and the 

 Sydney Grammar School. At Sydney also is the splendid Tech- 

 nical College, handsomely endowed, having an agricultural depart- 

 ment. The superior of all other schools is the Hawksbury Agri- 

 cultural College and Experimental Farm at Richmond, established 

 in 1891, richly endowed with land (three thousand acres), and or- 

 ganized on the most approved modern models. Science teaching 

 is not carried so high as the university standard, but all manner of 

 practical work must be performed by each student. 



Homeward bound, we reach Cape Colony, South Africa. 

 Here, in 1887, the Government inaugurated a scheme for aiding 

 farm schools in which elementary agriculture was taught. In 

 1894, out of 852 schools aided by the Government, 202 were 

 classed as " farmhouse schools." In higher education there may 

 be found (1898) the School of Agriculture and Viticulture at 

 Stellenbosch, and a second one at Sunset East. As both of 

 these schools are young, statistics concerning them are not yet 

 available. 



Last of England's colonies we notice the Dominion of Canada 

 on our northern frontier. No evident progress has been made in 

 introducing agricultural science teaching in the primary schools of 

 the entire Dominion. The first step taken in the direction of agri- 

 cultural education was for the enlightenment of farmers. In 1886 

 Parliament authorized the establishment of a system of experiment 

 farms, one in each province in Canada, viz.: one at Ottawa (to 

 serve both Quebec and Ontario), and one each at ISTappan, in Nova 

 Scotia; at Brandon, Manitoba; at Indian Head, Assiniboia; at 

 Agassiz, British Columbia; and at Charlottetown, Prince Edward 

 Island. To give these stations greater efficiency, the Government 

 encouraged the formation of farmers' institutes in every electoral 

 district for the hearing of lectures from experts which it provided, 

 and for discussion or business. To each regularly organized insti- 

 tute of fifty members a grant of £10 is annually made. 



In jSTova Scotia five primary and secondary schools are reported 

 as giving agricultural instruction to two hundred pupils. Some of 

 these schools have farms or gardens. The Provincial School of 

 Agi-iculture at Truro is making a good beginning. In its last class 

 three students were granted teachers' diplomas, seven received 

 farmers' diplomas, and eighteen took farmers' certificates. Three 



