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lie schools throughout tin iotui' the first course the 



1C at the il i>< 111 in tl .! Schools 



I ri-inaiii lor ten \\n-ks till mnlMiiiuncr. The Second 



>c is for teachers of .\lm can get away from their 



schools only during the summer growing 



in popularity. Abut 200 teachers .iiten.l c-.i.-h year. Followed up 



rrcspondcnce, maga/ I other literature, the influence of 



work on -hin^ must accomplish much among the school 



children in country places of the IV 



Thousands of fanm-i lie Expcrunetital luring the 



summer. They are con.l or the grounds, where the wtrk i* 



explained and some of the most im|M>rtant result > emphasized. 



The quantity <f hroughout the 



Province is such that if practically applied it would double or treble 

 the annual output of the farm. 



Besides the College at Guelph there is a well-equipped dairy 

 school at Kingston and an Experimental l-.irm at Monteith. North- 

 mo. The H<>n. Martin Burrcll. Hominum Minister of 

 Agriculture, says: "If you can teach a man to help himself you are 

 doing infinitely hotter and more efficient work for the State and by 

 the State than if you spoon-fed him. Therefore the valuable char- 

 acter of the work being done by such institutions as the Guel|>h and 

 Macdonald College*, and other institutions of this sort, cannot be 

 overestimated or over-encouraged." 



MacdonuM Institute. 



This Institute, the gift of Sir William Macdonald. 



. is maintained by the Province. It is connected with the 

 Agricultural College, and its object is the education of farmer*' 

 daughters in domestic science or the various branches of house- 

 keeping, cooking, sewing and laundry work. Considering tha: 



of the women of the cep no 



and do their own work, the education of the In - a great 



aid in the lessening bf drudgery. The door is open also for the 

 daughters of the people b and cities. "That school." says 



dent of the College, " has been patrmii/ed to the extent tha: 

 for this year. LIU. on the first of January. ippli- 



I more than we can accept. Kvery room is full to-night, and 

 .ire turning the city and town people down in favour of the 

 vr s daughter. \\e teach in this school is so impor- 



tant that the girls are willing to give up the ideals they had in life 

 to learn to do housework, and I have never known one to go out of 



