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research. Its imposing grounds attract attention on 

 entering the little French-Canadian town. Well- 

 trimmed lawns and recreation fields surround it. It 

 provides a school of agriculture and one for household 

 science, and is open to both sexes. A practical 

 course of training in live-stock, cereal husbandry, 

 horticulture, and poultry covers two years. A still 

 longer period is occupied with the higher branches of 

 botany, bacteriology, and natural science. 



The Macdonald College is connected with the 

 McGill University, and is free to the sons and 

 daughters of the farming community of the province. 

 Outside that area students have to pay ;^io a year. 

 There are experimental grounds laid out for the 

 purposes of illustrating research in grains, grasses and 

 flowers. Small model farms for horticulture and 

 poultry-keeping, as well as live-stock, give facility for 

 the most practical and up-to-date knowledge of these 

 branches of scientific farming. The laboratories are 

 equipped with the most modern appliances, and a large 

 and highly qualified staff of professors and assistants is 

 employed. I visited the college on the opening day, 

 and attended some of the lectures. Students came 

 all the way from British Columbia, a distance of 

 some 3000 miles, and so popular is the institution that 

 there was not a single vacancy at the beginning of the 

 session. There is accommodation for 200 men and 

 175 women. Most of the provinces of the Dominion 

 make their contributions to this centre of learning on 



