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The courses for the first three years are rigid and fixed. In the 

 fourth year the student has choice of four courses: — (1) Animal 

 husbandry; (2) cereal husbandry; (3) horticulture; (4) general agri- 

 culture. The average attendance in the regular courses are — Agricul- 

 tui-e, 180 ; teachers' course, 160 ; household science, 80. The students 

 taking the four-year course must be eighteen, have matriculated at 

 McGill, and must have worked on a farm for a year. A considerable 

 amount of experimental work in horticulture, stock feeding, production 

 of new varieties of cereals, and vegetable gardening is being undertaken. 

 The total cost of maintenance of the college is over £40,000 per annum. 



Ontario. — The Ontario Agricultural College is located at Guelph, 

 It is under the direction of the Department of Agriculture of Ontario. 

 The Guelph College is the oldest college in Canada, and is one of the 

 first agricultural colleges established in North America. For many 

 years Guelph had a chequered career. As recently as 1903 the farmers 



Cereal Husbandry Building, Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph, Canada. 



would not support it liberally with funds. In 1905 the college was 

 reorganized, the standards of instruction raised, and a system of exten- 

 sion work was commenced for the benefit of the farming community. 

 The result has been little short of miraculous. To-day the college has 

 the enthusiastic support of the farming community, the Provincial 

 Government, and the Dominion Government. It receives over £60,000 

 for salaries and maintenance from the State Government, and last year 

 it received over £20,000 from the Federal Government. The remarkable 

 change in the attitude of the farming community and the public during 

 the last twelve years has been due to the gradual recognition of the 

 sterling worth of the institution, and of its capacity for service to the 

 agricultural community. This recognition has been hastened by three 

 things — (a) Government financial support, which has given the college 

 an opportunity to secure a staff of capable specialists in all branches of 

 agriculture and animal husbandry; (h) the policy of holding numerous 

 short courses in the winter months, so that farmers may get in touch 

 with the college men, and. appreciate the worth of their teaching; (c) 



