Our Farm-Schools. 



"We want to fill them with students What sort of schools are they ? 

 If they are not yet quite what they ought to be, it is because work 

 has been unobtainable by the good workman. "With a full lecture 

 room, the teacher feels himself stimulated to communicate all h»' 

 knows to his hearers. But, with empty benches before him, his ardor 

 evaporates without any fault of his. 



Still, there need be no iear that the teaohin^:J will not be such as is 

 wanted. Strong in the intelligent aid at my disposal, I can assert 

 that if the pupils are entrusted to me, I will be responsible for their 

 instruction. The schools we have at our command are sufficient for 

 the present. Some changes, some improvements will allow us to 

 utilise the staff whose efforts, up to the present, have not had the 

 wished for success, and we shall in this way recompense the devotion 

 and sacrifice of many a long year. 



Let us employ the existing means, let us fill our schools with 

 students. "When the scholarships are all taken up, let the students 

 come all the same, their parents or friends paying the trifling charge 

 for board either to the school or in the neighbourhood. 't it be 

 taken for granted that the means of giving practical and theoretical 

 instruction will increase with the number of the students ; we will 

 see to that. When these schools, well managed, shall overflow with 

 .'^tudenls, we will think of establishing other schools which will then 

 have happily become necessary But I will have no more empty 

 schools ; and still less will I have a great central agricultural school, 

 which will be empty too, very likely. Up to the present, we have 

 had schools without pupils. Let pupils come to us now by the hun- 

 dred ; that is what we are striving after. 



Notre Dame Du Lac (Oka). 



" The finest farm in Canada" ; that is what a recent report says of 

 the farm of the R.R. P.P. Trappistes. And the report is signed by 

 such universally known good farmers as Messrs. Gr. Buchanan, Judge 

 of " Agricultural Merit," Thomas Irving, of Logan's Farm, and 

 Robert Ness, of Howick, Chateauguay. There is a good school. If 

 any one doubts it, let him opend at least a day there, enjoying the 

 hospitality of the good fathers. A whole day will not be at all too 



