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and the United States are invited to tour the province 
and lecture in the chief fruit-growing districts. All these 
lecturers, even the college professors, are men of the open 
air, not mere students of the desk. They are first and 
foremost practical men. Some of them are actually 
earning their living in the callings about which they are 
engaged to lecture. And along with lectures go demon- 
strations in the orchards themselves, in so far as the season 
is favourable for them. 
DEMONSTRATION TRAINS.—Quite recently the agricul- 
tural authorities of Washington and other American 
States have sent a body of lecturers on a tour round the 
State, who not only talk, but actually demonstrate from 
the train itself by which they travel. They have a fruit- 
tree standing on a flat or open car, which they use to 
illustrate the operations of pruning and spraying, though 
they are quite ready to demonstrate on any tree which 
happens to be growing conveniently near to the spot 
where the train stops. In another car are a good milch 
cow and a beef ox, by means of which the lecturer points 
out the respective merits and desiderata of the two types 
of animal. In another car are poultry ; and in a fourth 
ladies lecture on the various branches of domestic science. 
The British Columbia Board of Agriculture proposes to 
organize a similar travelling school of lecturers for the 
coming summer of 1912. 
DEMONSTRATION ORCHARDS.—During 1911 the British 
Columbia Board of Agriculture selected a large number 
of 5-acre orchards all over the province, to be managed 
and cultivated under the supervision of the Provincial 
Horticulturists, and in part at the expense of the Pro- 
