June, 1921. 



SCIENTIFIC AGRICULTURB 



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Fresiaent J. B. Reynolds. 



vv/in were "frraduates from the .sehonl of experience". 



Deputy Minister RoacUiouse of Ontario was of the 

 opinion that the information available in the Bureau 

 should not be publislhed in any form, but that it 

 should be available for any who might want it, i. e. 

 those who wi.sh to secure infomiation tjriat will be 

 helpful in filling positions, and also to those who 

 desire to secure po.sitions. "This constitutes," said 

 Mr. Roadhouse, "a practical, concrete service that 

 tihis Society can render to the members, to the work 



and to agriculture". It was further pointed ont that 

 information concerning salaries need not be regarded 

 as confidential, but sjiould be readily given by every 

 member; in most ea.ses salaries are public property. 



Obviously the development of the Bureau will 

 take some time, and it is unlikely that it will com- 

 mence to operate very nnich before the next Con- 

 vention is held. It will nece.s.sarily take some time 

 to draw up a questionnaire that will suit all cases; 

 several months will clap.se ijcfore such questionnaires 

 are all returned, filed and indexed ; the compilation 

 of a complete list of corrunercial firms, t« bo added 

 to the list of de[)ai'tm(Mits aiul colleges, will also be 

 necessary. If tihe Bureau begins to function by Jan- 

 uary, 1922, it will liavc made satisfactoiy progress. 



The resolution on tjiis question was as follows: — 

 "Resolved that there be established in the office of 

 the General Secretary, of the Canadian Society of 

 Technical Agriculturists a Bureau of Records which 

 shall list and index information covering particulars 

 as follow : 



1. For each and every member of the Society an 

 index card recording his academic standing, technical 

 training, profes.sional experience, present position and 

 salaiy, type of position for which he is qualified and 

 other information considered necessary to further the 

 purposes of the Bureau; 



2. A classification of positions or occupations avail- 

 able in Canada for technical agriculturi.sts with the 

 qualifications required and salan- offered in each ; 

 sucihi claissification shall include teac.hing, exten.sion, 

 investigation, administration and journalis-m. 



When such an index of members shall have been 

 prepared, notice thereof shall be sent to ministers of 

 agriculture, and deputy ministers, presidents and deans 

 of agricultural colleges, principals of agricultural 

 schools, directors of farms and experiment stations, 

 managers of industrial concerns and any other agen- 

 cies employing technical agriculturists, with the infor- 

 mation that tjhe Society is prepared to fumLsh a 

 statement of qualifications of candidates for positions 

 llhat may be open. 



All members shall be classified and indexed accord- 

 ing to the particular kind of work engaged in, and 

 such indexes .shall upon application be available to 

 members of the Society." 



Report of Committee on Marketing Education 



Prepared by H. S. ARKELL, Live Stock Commissioner, 



Ottawa. 



Your Committee on Marketing Education begs to re- 

 port as follows : 



The Committee held no meetings as it was found im- 

 possible to convene the members at one time or place. 

 Full discussion and consideration of the subject, how- 

 ever, was secui1?d by correspondence and through per- 

 sonal conferences between the several members of the 

 Committee and the Chairman. Tliei-e was unanimity 

 of view as to the necessity and advantages of courses 

 being taken in marketing and farm business. For con- 

 \enience in considering the report, the conclusions 

 reached respecting particular phases of the question 

 will bo set down in order and a draft of courses will 

 b(? submitted as outlining the different subjects whfch, 

 in the opinion of the Committee, should be covered by 

 the College curriculum. 



General Observations. 



1. The direction of development in farmers' think- 

 ing and in farmers' co-operative activity makes it 

 advisable and desirable that our Agricultural Colleges 

 should draft their courses to provide for the tieaching 

 of the science of farming in conformity with the re- 

 quirements of farming as a business. 



2. The objective of coursips in marketing education 

 should be to supplement neces,sary academic training 

 by work which will enable students successfully to 

 carry on their business in whatlever field of commercial 

 agriculture they may enter after leaving college. 



3. In the opinion of the Committee, such courses 

 should b|?i developed and given by the particular De- 

 partments responsible for the teaching of the prac- 

 tical branches of agriculture and in definite relation of 



