river carries more than one third of Canada's 

 national trade to and from the Port of Montreal, 

 the annual volume of which exceeds $750,000,000, 

 and prospects are that both the volume and the 

 proportion will increase. 



The Continent's Second Port 



Montreal is already the second port of the 

 American continent, its fifth city in respect 

 of population, and the greatest inland port. 

 It is the p.-incipal point on the American con- 

 tinent for the export of grain and other agri- 

 cultural produce, and now the greater part of the 

 enormous harvest of the western prairies is find- 

 ing its outlet by way of the St. Lawrence 

 instead of across the international border. 



The work of developing the accommodation 

 and capacity of the harbor is a continuous work, 

 progressing unceasingly. To date, at a cost of 

 more than $30,000,000, the harbor provides one 

 hundred steamship berths from 350 to 750 feet in 

 length, with a depth of water from 25 to 35 

 feet. There are two large elevators at which 

 nine vessels can be loaded with grain simultane- 

 ously, sixty miles of harbor railway, and a total 

 wharfage of about twelve miles. Montreal has 

 trade relations with every country of the globe. 

 During 1921 twelve of the world's greatest ship- 

 ping lines used the port as a terminal whilst the 

 number of vessels arriving yearly approximates 

 one thousand. 



Agricultural Education 



The finest proof of the standing of agricul- 

 tural education in Canada and the excellence 

 of the agricultural colleges of the Dominion was 

 given at the Chicago International Livestock 

 Exposition when the Ontario Agricultural Col- 

 lege of Guelph, the Manitoba Agricultural Col- 

 lege of Winnipeg, and the Macdonald Agricul- 

 tural College of Quebec covered themselves with 

 glory in the judging contests, winning the first 

 prize in individual standing as well as other 

 awards. 



F. W. Walsh, a member of the quintet re- 

 presenting the Province of Ontario, with a score 

 of 891 out of a possible 1,000, secured the premier 

 judging honors. R. E. White, of the same Col- 

 lege, finished fifth with a score of 867, and G. E. 

 Rathby, alsoof Ontario, was fifteenth in the stand- 

 ing, with a mark of 831. In the contest for ag- 

 gregate college honors, the Ontario team was just 

 nosed out by that from Ohio. A survey of the 

 history of the college, however, reveals the fact 

 that this honor has already on a previous occa- 

 sion fallen to its representatives. 



The great merit of these achievements will 

 be appreciated when it is considered what a 

 small percentage of the total the Canadian 

 student body represented in comparison with 

 the numbers from all the States of the Union. 

 It is concrete proof of the superlative quality 



of Canadian agricultural education and reflects 

 in the most creditable manner upon the Domi- 

 nion's first pursuit of farming. This exposition, 

 with its competitions which are comprehensive 

 and exhaustive, is regarded in Canada no less 

 than the United States as the criterion of agri- 

 cultural efficiency and display, and it mayjusti- 

 fiedly be assumed from these successes that 

 Canadian agricultural colleges take second place 

 to none. 



Educating the Farm Child 



All this bears on the general fact that the 

 Dominion regards its first industry as its basic 

 of all progress present and future, and in this 

 appreciation spares no effort or expense in its 

 promotion. Not only is the farmer aided and 

 encouraged in every way by the Government, 

 Federal and provincial, but all possible is effected 

 in the line of education to prepare the farm 

 child for his great destiny and in training him to 

 become the most efficient agriculturalist. At 

 the apex of this training comes the agricultural 

 college. 



Educational matters being under the juris- 

 diction of the various provinces, agricultural 

 scholarship comes under this head and the agri- 

 cultural colleges are instituted and partially sup- 

 ported by the provincial governments. The Agri- 

 cultural Instruction Act, of 1913, provided for 

 the payment to the provinces of the sum of ten 

 million dollars in a period of ten years for the 

 purpose of aiding and advancing the farming 

 industry of Canada. It was intended to sup- 

 plement provincial appropriations and with a 

 view to enabling the provinces to finance and 

 carry out instructional efforts in the interest of 

 agriculture in a more extended and comprehen- 

 sive manner than would otherwise be possible 

 to promote better farming methods and encour- 

 age agricultural education. 



Schools and Colleges 



Agricultural colleges are to be found all over 

 the Dominion, serving the peculiar needs of the 

 farmers of every section. Alberta possesses the 

 Alberta Agricultural College as part of the pro- 

 vincial university at Edmonton as well as six agri- 

 cultural schools in various parts of the province. 

 British Columbia has an agricultural faculty at 

 its university, as has Saskatchewan. Manitoba 

 Agricultural College at Winnipeg has created an 

 enviable reputation for itself and is open to any 

 student irrespective of previous education. New 

 Brunswick has two agricultural colleges and Nova 

 Scotia one establishment. Ontario has the Agri- 

 cultural College at Guelph with more than a 

 thousand students and two other establishments. 

 Macdonald College, near Montreal, with nearly 

 eight hundred students, is supplemented in Que- 

 bec with colleges at Ste. Anne de la Pocatiere 

 and La Trappe, Oka, both affiliated with Laval 

 University. 



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