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Colleges at Truro, and grants diplomas in rural science, courses being 
offered in nature study, biology, botany, gardening, and horticulture, 
agriculture, physics, chemistry, bird and insect study, bacteriology, 
geology and mechanical science. The study of rural science has been 
much encouraged by the Agricultural Instruction Act, passed by the 
Dominion Parliament, which has supplied the financial assistance 
needed. Last year 109 diplomas in agriculture were granted by the 
Summer School at Truro, which is the normal school for training 
teachers in Rural Science. In the public schools nature study and 
élementary agriculture have been well taught as reported by the 
Director of rural science schools. School fairs and exhibitions have 
been held, and much enthusiasm has been shown in the work. It 
is worth noting that the total attendance at the vocational schools 
(Normal College, Agricultural College, Technical College and Coal 
Mining Schools) in 1914 was 3,285 which compares well with a total 
attendance at the high schools of 8,903. In the mining schools, 
carried on in 17 different localities, there was a total enrolment in 
1914 of 690. In the technical schools, other than mining, carried 
on in 6 different localities, there was a total enrolment of 1,560. 
Advanced work in agriculture is carried on.at the Agricultural College, 
Truro. 
An interesting subject to which no little attention is given in 
the schools of Nova Scotia, as being associated with nature study, 
is phenology which concerns observations on the times of the regular 
procession of natural phenomena each season, the leafing of plants, 
the opening of flowers, the return and departure of different kinds 
of birds in their migrations, etc. It makes children observant, and 
greatly increases their interest in nature. 
In the schools of New Brunswick instruction is given in elementary 
agriculture. Attention is also paid to manual training and domestic 
science, though up to the present no technical schools as such have 
been established. There is a Director of elementary agricultural 
education to whose guidance are entrusted the nature study and 
rural science of the schools, and annual grants are made for the en- 
couragement of the work. This has been made possible by the 
Agricultural Instruction Act passed by the Dominion Parliament 
in 1913. Rural science schools have been established for giving 
special training and instruction to teachers; and in 1915 one hundred 
and ninety teachers took the four week’s course. In the schools a 
certain amount of elementary laboratory work is exacted, and each , 
pupil must be provided with a small amount of apparatus for indi- 
vidual work. In New Brunswick no agricultural college has been 
established. 
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