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noons of each week. The work is divided into seven departments. 

 viz. — the Farm, the Live stock, the Dairy, the Poultry, the Horti- 

 cultural, the Mechanical, and the Experimental. The Btadente 

 sent in rotation to these departments and are required to take their 

 turn at all jobs of every description. They are paid for their labour 

 (apart from their instruction) ami receive from four cents to nine 

 cents per hour. 



The cost during two years of the Associate Course need not exceed 

 75 dollars to 85 dollars a year for a resident who works regularly 

 in the outside departments, and 100 dollars to 125 dollars a year 

 for a non-resident who also works efficiently. 



The Field Husbandry and Animal Husbandry Departments of 

 this College are specially worthy of praise. The former has fifty 

 acres of land entirely devoted to experimental work, and has perhaps 

 had more influence upon Canadian agriculture than any other. 

 Students are required to spend much of their time on this field 

 examining crops, noting methods of experiments and their results. 



In all American Agricultural Colleges considerable time is spent 

 in judging stock and much attention is given to live stock. The 

 Ontario Agricultural College has for many years been at the fore- 

 front of this work, and specimens of fifteen or sixteen breeds of horses, 

 cattle, sheep, and swine are kept for demonstration and teaching. 

 So successful has been the teaching that the Trophy contested for 

 by teams of students from many of the agricultural colleges in 

 America has been won in two successive years at Chicago by the 

 Guelph team. 



Short Courses 



The short courses are of a highly practical nature, the most 

 popular being the two weeks' course in stock and seed judging, 

 which was attended by 328 farmers and farmers' sons in the past 

 year. 



Experimental and Research Work 



For more than thirty years the College has been disseminating 

 valuable information obtained by experiments on the farm and in 

 the laboratory. The work of Professor Zavitz on the improvement 

 of farm crops is known to all agricultural experimenters and teachers, 

 and so successful is it that more than 30,000 people are attracted to 

 the College every season chiefly to view the growing crops which are 

 under experiment. The experiment field is under a four course 

 rotation, viz. — grain, followed by a hoed crop which is usually maize 

 or roots, followed by grain, followed by pasture. Each fourth of 

 the whole area is laid out in parallel strips 100 links wide separated 

 by permanent roadways 12 feet wide. Each plot is therefore 100 

 links long by whatever may be the convenient width for the 

 particular crop or circumstance. 



All experiments are carried on for five years before results are 

 published. The extraordinary care exercised to obtain trustworthy 



