596 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



agriculture and horticulture in continuation and high schools and collegiate 

 institutes is explained in detail. The instruction will be optional, under the 

 supervision of the director of agricultural education, and will be given by 

 teachers of science holding an intermediate certificate in agriculture and hor- 

 ticulture granted upon the satisfactory completion of two 5-weeks summer ses- 

 sions at the Ontario Agricultural College, or by the district agricultural rep- 

 resentatives. A board of trustees that provides and maintains satisfactorily 

 a course in agriculture and horticulture in the lower school of the high school 

 course extending over 2 years, including pupils' home projects under a certifi- 

 cated teacher, will receive $100 and tlie teacher $75. To the school board 

 which, in addition to the home projects, provides and maintains experimental 

 and demonstration plats at or in connection with the school for the practical 

 instruction of the pupils, an additional grant not to exceed $25 will be paid, 

 and to the teacher an additional annual grant of $25. When the work is con- 

 ducted by a county agricultural representative he will be paid the grants speci- 

 fied for the teacher. The 2-year middle school course may be taken only in 

 schools where the lower school course is being taken. The same grants will be 

 paid and the same requirements as regards instruction and examinations made 

 as in the lower school course. 



The lower school course of study with suggested home projects and the mid- 

 dle school course are outlined. At least 2 hours a week during each of the 2 

 years of both lower and middle courses are to be devoted to this work. 



Infonaation, reg-ulations, instnictions, and course of study in elementary 

 agriculture and horticulture for rural and villag-e public and separate 

 schools (Ontario Dept. Ed., Agr. Ed. Circ. 13, 1913, pp. 18). — The department of 

 education is also cooperating with the department of agriculture of the Province 

 of Ontario in introducing elementary agriculture and horticulture into the 

 rural and village schools. The instruction is optional, under the general super- 

 vision of the director of elementary agricultural education, and given by teachers 

 either not especially certificated, or holding special certificates in elemen- 

 tary agriculture and horticulture. These may be obtained on the completion 

 of (1) a 10- weeks spring course at the Ontario Agricultural College, (2) 2 

 summer sessions at the college and a directed winter's reading course, and (3) 

 a course in agriculture at a high school followed by a further course at the 

 normal school and one summer session at the college. Besides the classroom 

 instruction there will be practical work carried out either as a home gardening 

 plan or as a school gardening plan. A rural or village school board which 

 provides and maintains satisfactorily throughout the year a course in elemen- 

 tary agriculture and horticulture with supervised home gardens or projects 

 and an uncertificated teacher may receive not to exceed $8 for the trustees 

 and $15 for the teacher; with a certificated teacher not to exceed $20 for the 

 trustees and $38 for the teacher. In addition, where a well-conducted school 

 farm or garden of 6 square rods is maintained the grant may not exceed, with 

 an uncertificated teacher, $12 to the trustees and $23 to the teacher; with a 

 certificated teacher, $30 to the trustees and $57 to the teacher. 



The course of study is outlined. 



[Agricultural education in Brazil], P. De Toledo (Relat. Min. Agr. Indus. 

 € Com., Brazil, No. 1 {1912), pp. 5-59, pis. i-^).— This is the report for 1912 by 

 the minister of agriculture, industry, and commerce, including among other 

 matters, the organization of agricultural instruction and research at the Higher 

 School of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine at Rio de Janeiro, 2 secondary 

 or theoretical practical schools of agriculture, 8 agricultural apprentice schools, 

 itinerant agricultural courses, 7 demonstration fields, 2 experiment stations, 2 



