ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
See TION or ACRICUL MDE 
Monthly Meeting, 13th March, 1918. 
' Mr. H. W. Ports, Chairman, in the Chair. 
An address on ‘Agricultural Hducation in England, 
Canada and Australia Compared,’’ was delivered by the 
Chairman. The lecture was illustrated with a fine series 
of lantern slides. The popularity and respect with which 
agricultural education was received in America, was shown 
by the fact that in the year 1914 no less than 1,652 students 
received tuition at the Guelph Agriculturai College in 
Ontario, Canada. Located at this college was Professor 
ZAVITZ, who, by selection, has improved cereals, particu- 
larly barley, to such an extent that 93% of the barley grown 
in Canada is bought from the college. In Canada, in 1915, 
there were 4,552 experiment plots, conducted by private 
farmers. The exhibits from the different colleges and 
those from the experiment plots, displayed at the Toronto 
National Exhibition, were sights never to be forgotten. 
Although the theoretical training at the college was every- 
thing to be desired, there was a decided lack of properly 
supervised practical training, and this, which occupied five 
months of the year, had to be received at the hands of the 
farmers. 
Coming to England, the lecturer pointed out the stimulus 
given to stud-breeding by his late Majesty, KInc KDWARD 
VII. Of late years some fine agricultural colleges had 
been established at Swanley, Wye, Reading and Cambridge. 
