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years. It has been continued, however, by the Department of 

 Education with modifications of the amounts and requirements to 

 be fulfilled. At present any rural or village elementary school in 

 the Province may undertake to qualify for the special grants 

 allowed. Larger grants are allowed where the teacher giving the 

 instruction is the holder of the Elementary Certificate in Agriculture 

 and Horticulture obtained by attending two summer sessions or a 

 special spring course at the Agricultural College. When the 

 instruction is based on Home Gardening work alone, the grants 

 are not so large as when a School Garden furnishes the basis for 

 the instruction. The grants to the teachers are equal to the grants 

 paid to the trustees, but trustees receive only as much as they 

 expend on the work up to a certain limit. The grants vary from 

 $8.00 to both teacher and trustees, where the teacher is uncertifi- 

 cated in Agriculture and conducts supervised Home Gardens, to 

 $30.00 for both teacher and trustee, where the teacher is certificated 

 in Agriculture and carries out the work through a successful 

 School Garden. 



Grants for Teaching Agriculture 

 The grants are not paid merely for conducting school gardening 

 either at the school or at the homes. The grants are paid for 

 teaching Agriculture. While School Gardens have always been 

 supposed theoretically to imply that agricultural instruction is 

 given, as a matter of actual practice they may be and often are 

 conducted merely as exercises in gardening. To direct the work 

 pedagogically aright the earning of the grants has been since 19 12 

 made dependent on the systematic teaching of Agriculture for at 

 least one hour a week throughout the calendar year. During the 

 past few years in which this requirement has been insisted upon, 

 good progress has been made in securing the proper educational 

 uses of School and Home Gardens. 



Recent Advancement 

 The advancement made during the past twelve years has 

 been encouraging. The list given below shows how the work is 

 gradually extending, and this without making the subject in any 

 sense an obligatory 'one. The increase is due largely to the in- 

 creased enlightenment of the country people regarding the subject 

 brought about by the intelligent enthusiasm of trained teachers 

 and the increased attention to rural education as a factor in our 



