698 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



The number of boys' and girls' clubs organized in Manitoba has this year 

 increased more than threefold. 



A second school of agriculture in New Brunswick, to be known as the Sussex 

 Agricultural Institute, is now being completed at an estimated cost of $2S;.5(X>. 

 The Summer Rural Science School for Teachers held under the supervision of 

 tlie director of elementary agricultural education at Woodstock, N. B., in 11)14, 

 was attended by (58 teachers, 6 inspectors, and 1 normal school instructor. 

 Instruction was given in nature study, horticulture, agriculture. j)hysica} 

 nature, farm mechanics, and rur.-il domestic science, supplemented by a series 

 of lectures on insects, field crops, soil imjn-ovement, and practical instruction 

 In milk testing. 



Since the beginning of the organization of women's institutes in Nova 

 Scotia in July, 1913. 14 institutes have been organized with an average mem- 

 bership of 25, and the first convention of women's institutes has been held with 

 an attendance of 27 delegates. The 1914 legislature appropriated $5,000 a 

 year for the encouragement of this work. 



A feature of the Nova Scotia Ilural Science School, held in Truro in July, 

 1914, was a model school fair for which the teachers provided and arranged the 

 exhibits. The latter included collections of grasses, weeds, and wild flowers, 

 mounted insects, samples of chemical elements necessary to plant growth, a 

 home canning outfit, samples of butter from the agricultural college, dairy 

 apparatus, various fibers, samples of sugars, etc. 



The total appropriations in Ontario for agricultural work carried on through 

 the departments of agriculture and of education for the year ended October 31, 

 1914. amounted to $1,311,632.75. of which .$395,658 was for the agricultural 

 college, and $41,200 for institutes. 



A new two-story and basement poultry building at the Ontario Agricultural 

 College has been completed, and will be used for administration and instruction 

 purposes. 



To bring educational work in closer touch '^•ith agriculture, the Province of 

 Prince Edward Island has been divided into 10 districts, in each of which an 

 inspector has been given charge of the educational work. These inspectors will 

 be assisted by the county representatives of the department of agriculture and 

 by the supervisors of women's institutes. A course in nature study has been 

 prepared for the public schools, so amplified as to be of assistance to teachers 

 and in a general program of work for the year. 



The three maple sugar making schools in Quebec, located respectively at 

 Beaueeville, Ste. Louise, and Minerve. had a total attendance of 17 students 

 and manufactured 1.192 gal. of sirup. 555 lbs. of sugar, and 600 lbs. of sugar 

 wax. The schools were in session 37. IS. and 9 days, respectively. 



In the Province of Saskatchewan $6,500 of the grant under the agricultural 

 instruction act is exi^ended by the department of education for the introduc- 

 tion of agricultural and domestic science courses into high schools and collegiate 

 institutions, and the training of teachers in agiiculture at the provincial normal 

 schools. The remainder of the money is about equally divided between the 

 college of agriculture at Saskatoon and the provincial department of agriculture 

 at Regina. The university will spend its grant almost wholly in salaries of 

 instructors in research, teaching, and extension, the appointments made 

 amounting during this year to $16,400. Instruction was given to 101 students 

 ill the regular course of the college of agriculture, to 12 men in the degree 

 course, .and to 10 registered in agriculture from other colleges of the university. 

 The department of education of the Province of Saskatchewan is arranging 

 for the appointment of agricultural instructors at each of the normal schools. 

 a part of whose duties will be the training of teachers in school gardening. 



