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The Experimental Union 



The work of Guelph College cannot be passed under review 

 without mention of the Experimental Union which includes several 

 thousand farmers and former students in its membership. This 

 Association, of which Professor Zavitz is the organiser, distributes 

 varieties of grain, roots, and forage crops to its members for experi- 

 ment. It conducts field trials of manures and methods of cultivation, 

 and generally does a great deal to bring the farmers in touch with the 

 College and with the latest results of agricultural science. Its 

 reports are published annually and contain the collective experience 



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of its thousands of members in all parts of Ontario. The Union is 

 worked from the College and receives a grant from the provincial 

 government. 



County Instructors 



A more recent development of agricultural education, partly 

 through the College and partly by the direct action of the govern- 

 ment, is the placing of a number of young men who have a thorough 

 training as instructors in agriculture in various counties in Ontario. 

 The duties of those instructors comprise lecturing to farmers, con- 

 ducting classes in schools, giving advice on choice of seeds, uses of 



