yS INFORMATION RELATING TO AGRIOULTURA.L ECONOMY IN GENERAL 



and grading and packing poultry. The old college at Winnipeg is equip- 

 ped with greenhouses for winter gardening. It has also a machinery hall, 

 one hundred feet square, where men will be taught to use and repair farm 

 machinery of all kinds. Men able to do this are in great demand, especially 

 in the west where tractor farming has been developed on the largest scale. 

 The Winnipeg representative of big implement houses are co-operating in 

 the work of instruction b3^ lending without charge tractors, threshing ma- 

 chines, gazoline engines and other modern agricultural appliances. 



The great re-education centre for Ontario at Guelph, wliich has just 

 been taken over by the Military Hospitals Commission from the provin- 

 cial government, is fully equipped for the most thorough agricultural train- 

 ing. The propert}^ covers 850 acres, nearly all available for this purpose and 

 largely already under cultivation. There are on it a large greenhouse for 

 gardening under glass, a model dairy barn and up-to-date machinery ; and 

 live stock of all kinds complete the equipment for stock farming. 



FRANCE. 



X. THE CANCELLING OF RURAL LEASES. 



A law of 17 August 191 7 sanctions the cancelling, without payment of 

 indemnity, of rural leases, in the interest of lessees or their heirs placed in 

 certain circumstances. By Article 2 of this law when the lessee of a rural 

 holding is killed by the enemy, or dies of his wounds or of an illness contract- 

 ed or aggravated while he is ser\'ing, his heirs may demand, by registered 

 post within three months of the promulgation of the law, of his death or 

 of the official intimation thereof, that his lease be cancelled. The same pri- 

 vilege exists in the case of : i) a lessee who has been discharged because of 

 wounds received or an illness contracted or aggravated while he was serving, 

 and who is not in a condition to continue to cultivate the leased real estate ; 

 2) a lessee whose wounds or illness are consequent on the war although he 

 has not been with the colours ; 3) the widow or heirs of a lessee in the lat- 

 ter case. In all these cases a full right to free cancellation will exist, and 

 the cancellation will have effect at the end of a customary term, delays for 

 leave which maj^ not exceed a 3'ear being observed. Cancellation can be 

 given at the demand of the wife or children, or failing them of the parents 

 or grandparents of a lessee called to the colours and officiall}' stated to be 

 missing or killed. Further, for six months after the cessation of hostili- 

 ties and the return of the lessee to his home the latter may ask to have his 

 lease cancelled, being responsible for proving, if the point be disputed, that 

 he can no longer cultivate the real estate let to him, owing to wounds or 

 an illness he has contracted while with the colours, or to circumstances of 

 the war which have affected him although he has not been in the arm}*. He 

 will not need to pay anj- indemnity. Finally every lessee of a rural holding 

 may, even if he be not mobilized and be outside the cases contemplated by 

 common law and the new law, obtain a remitment or reduction of rents and 



