Agriculture Abroad. 



[may, 



elude the proceedings a farmers' banquet was arranged for 

 the last evening, given by the University to visiting farmers. 



In arranging such a social function as the " Farmers' Week " 

 the agricultural authorities of Missouri have certainly taken 

 a practical step in fostering the farm interests of the State. 

 The idea might well commend itself to those at home interested 

 in the development of agriculture by increased social inter- 

 course. 



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I^HE place of the agricultural college and its im- 

 portance to the future in promoting the interests of 

 agriculture in Canada was the subject 

 Agricultural ^ series of articles in the issue of 



Education m Canada. ^ . ^ , r 



the Agnculhiral Gazette of (.anaaa for 



January last. Emphasis was laid on the importance of 

 specialised education as a means of developing the industry, 

 and of the responsibility resting upon the colleges for equipping 

 their students with a training that will enable these men to 

 take a place in the foremost ranks of human progress and 

 achievement. It is expected that these institutions will not 

 only fit men for farm callings, and turn out teachers, adminis- 

 trators and highly- trained investigators, but that they will 

 instruct their students in the social sciences as applied to 

 agriculture in order to qualify them to give instruction on 

 questions of this character. Briefly, it is recognised that their 

 function is to prepare young men both for vocational agriculture 

 and for the proper discharge of their duties as citizens. 



From Ontario westward, every province of the Dominion 

 has now an agricultural college, established and maintained 

 at the public expense, for the purpose of preparing men to 

 become either practical and scientific farmers, or instructors, 

 investigators and leaders in all matters connected with agri- 

 culture. 



In the east of Canada a similar service is being rendered by 

 the Macdonald College, an institution established as a private 

 bequest, but receiving aid from the public treasury, and by 

 the Agricultural College at Truro, Nova Scotia, the latter serv- 

 ing the needs of the Maritime Provinces. Quebec province 

 has, in addition, two institutions designed to afford instruction 

 in agriculture to French-speaking Canadians. 



Agricultural education in (^anada received a stimulus in 

 1912, in the passing of the Agricultural Aid Act. This measure 

 placed moneys at the disposal of the provinces for the benefit 

 of agriculture. It had been felt that a portion of the fund 



