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manures, and generally assisting the farmer by every means. So 

 far this move promises to be highly successful. 



Nova Scotia College of Agriculture, Truro 



This College, though only a few years old, comes next in age to 

 the Guelph College. It is maintained by the Government of Nova 

 Scotia, and is designed to serve the province and to take in students 

 from Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick. The College is 

 not residential and tuition is free to all. The courses here are short, 

 the longest leading to an Associate Diploma obtainable in two years, 

 but a Diploma student is received by Canadian and American 

 Agricultural Colleges as a third year man and can proceed to the 

 degree of B.Sc. without loss of time. The buildings here are good. 

 The live stock pavilion deserves special mention. It is between 

 fifty and sixty feet in diameter, and being lighted by electricity 

 as well as by roof and side lights can be used at any time. 



The live stock of the Nova Scotia College are remarkably good, 

 partly because the government has imported a large number of pure 

 bred sires, bulls, and rams for sale to farmers, and some of them are 

 retained at the College. The live stock of the province being 

 admittedly inferior, no better method of assisting the farmer can be 

 imagined than the distribution of good sires and education in good 

 types of which there is an abundant supply at the College. The 

 dairy herd is particularly good, and contains a Holstein cow which 

 produced 18,000 lbs or 1800 gallons of milk in 1907 of 3.1 per cent 

 butter fat. As the average cow of the province is supposed to yield 

 only 300 gallons per annum the effect of this cow and her kind on 

 the students and farmers should be quickly seen. The short courses 

 are similar to those of other Colleges and are well patronised. They 

 include a short course for women on dairying and poultry keeping. 

 A farm of 200 acres, part of which is marsh, of the kind so largely 

 found in Nova Scotia, is well farmed and very clean, a striking 

 contrast to some maritime farms. Most of the work of this College 

 is in its preliminary stages, but under the energetic management of 

 Principal Cumming, who is also the provincial Secretary of Agri- 

 culture, it is likely to alter very soon the farming conditions of 

 Nova Scotia. 



Manitoba College of Agriculture, Winnipeg 



This College, which is only three years old, has already fine 

 agricultural, dairy and residential buildings. A school of Domestic 

 Science is being formed and will occupy one side of the campus. 

 The students number 250 to 300. All students of agriculture must 

 have resided for two years on a farm. The fees and cost of living 

 are for Manitoba students about 110 dollars for residence, books, 

 and tuition from October to March. There are special short courses 

 as at other colleges, the only novel one being a course for farmers 

 held in the autumn just before threshing time, covering two weeks, 

 and dealing with engines, threshing machines, farm implements. 



