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If his arms cannot — and they should not — be at work all the time, the 

 work will go on none the worse for that, seeing that a well stored 

 bra'u will be superintending every operation. 



It has been sometimes said that the vicinity of the college has been 

 •detrimental to the success of our farm-schools, the pupils being all 

 the time agitated by the idea of rising to the higher education of the 

 college. All this will be changed ; agriculture is engrossing all kinds 

 ■of studies as it is talents of every description, at the same time that it 

 is becoming remunerative and universally in vogue. 



Now is the time for the student at the college to pass over to the 

 farm-school, there to finish his education and to start on a happy and 

 prosperous life. 



For admission to the farm-school, the pupil must be fourteen years 

 of age, be able to read and write, and to satisfy the Director and the 

 government Inspector, that he really intends to foUow^ farming as his 

 life business. 



Thef first fifteen pupils admitted to a school are to be called bursars 

 and receive teaching, board, and lodging, gratuitously. The next that 

 «nter will have to board themselves, at the school, or in some house 

 in the neighbourhood. They will receive theoretical and practical 

 instruction, free. 



Speaking of our schools, I will mention one that I call our 



Travelling School. 



It is a way of getting good out of the system of "Agricultural 

 Merit." 



It is well known that the judges entrusted with the distribution of 

 the prizes to the owners of the farms submitted to competition have 

 to traverse successively the different parts of the province so as to 

 complete the circuit in five years. Up to the present, their duty has 

 been to settle who deserve the medals and diplomas. I have deter- 

 mined to get a greater amount of service out of these judges, who are 

 men of experience and judgment. I have instructed them to inspect 

 ■each farm carefully, and to enter their remarks and advice in a note 

 book, a copy of which is to be handed over to the proprietor, the original 

 to be kept for themselves. The competitor thus receives from these 

 judges a body of counsels calculated to make his farm more than ever 

 a model to the neighbourhood. In this book, which he may consult 



