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long to give him a chaace of even glancing rapidly over this extensive 

 farm. 



There, our pupils will find good examples in every branch of farm- 

 ing, and, more than that, they will be able to learn a good deal about 

 more than one industry connected with it. 



Perfect theory demonstrated by intelligent practice ; that, in one 

 sentence, is the programme of the school. It is only jnst open, and 

 already numbers of students attend it.' 



The good Prior is not satisfied with working with all his power to 

 pu^ his school on a good footing, but carries his solicitude still fur- 

 ther. Appointed by the Archbishop of Montreal as president of the 

 agriculiural missioners of the diocese, he finds time to attend the 

 meetings and to do his share of the common work. And that is not 

 all; he has founded, on the banks of the great Lake St. John, the Mis- 

 tassini establishment, which will be for that entire region what the 

 mother-house is for the western part of the province. 



Ah, he is indeed a sturdy workman, a great toiler ! 



Ste. Anne 



"We must congratulate ourselves on the zeal and spirit of enterprise 

 manifested by the directors of the School at Ste. Anne. The fields are 

 in good order and the crops abundant. The herd is rapidly improv- 

 ing, and the pupils are more numerous than usual.-' This school pros- 

 pers, and furnishes a proof under the very eyes of our farmers that 

 good farming pays. A few more improvements, which its managers 

 are always ready to accept, and we shall have here an institution that 

 will be of great assistance to this part of the province. 



It is my intention that the directors, professors, and even the pupils 

 of our schools, should interchange visits during the year. From this 

 will, I trust, result a general improvement. Grood systems will be 

 initiated, bad ones laid on one side. When everything has been got 

 into good order in all the schools, there might be granted, to excite 

 greater emulation, certain prizes to the one that shall distinguish itself 

 the most. 



'This school, although only 0[.>ened last autumn, already reckons twenty pupils. With 

 tliti fathers they grow root and green fodder crops on a large scale ; take their turn in the 

 cheesery and creamery ; learn how to graft and manage fruit trees, and even how to 

 make cider and wine. A fine vineyard is all ready there, and is the admiration of 

 vieitors. 



-Here, too, there are, at pr-sent, fifteen pupils. 



