Canadian Agriculture. 
The Board may establish, carry on, and manage a veterinary 
college for the instruction of pupils, by competent and approved 
teachers in the science and practice of the veterinary art, and 
may arrange for the examination of such pupils in anatomy, 
physiology, materia medica, therapeutics, chemistry, and as to 
the breeding of domesticated animals ; and, upon proof to the 
satisfaction of the Council, that such pupils possess the requisite 
■qualifications, may grant diplomas under the seal of the Board, 
and the signature of the President and Secretary-Treasurer 
thereof, certifying that they are competent to practise as vete- 
rinary surgeons. A register is kept of veterinary surgeons 
practising in the Province, and any person acting as a veterinary 
surgeon without being duly qualified is liable to a fine of from 
4Z. to 20/. 
The Council must authorise the organisation of an agricul- 
tural society in any electoral division in which there may not 
be one in existence, after a petition — signed by at least fifty 
persons, each of whom must have actually paid in to the secre- 
tary-treasurer pro tern, not less than one dollar (4*. 2d.), — has 
been filed in the Department in the form set forth in the Act. 
The objects of such societies are generally to promote the pro- 
gress of agriculture by holding exhibitions at which prizes may 
be awarded for live-stock, agricultural and horticultural pro- 
ducts, implements, and machinery ; and for any excellence in 
agricultural productions or operations, by importing or other- 
wise procuring seeds, plants, and pedigree animals of new and 
valuable kinds, or by offering bonuses for the introduction of 
the same ; by offering prizes for essays on questions relating to 
agriculture, arboriculture, or horticulture ; by promoting the 
circulation of agricultural, arboricultural, and horticultural 
publications ; and by holding meetings for discussion, and 
securing the delivery of lectures on subjects connected with 
agriculture, arboriculture, or horticulture. 
The protection of game comes within the functions of the 
Department, and an enumeration of the close times will carry 
with it an indication of the animals included in the restrictions. 
None of the following are to be shot at, hunted, trapped, taken 
•or killed within the times specified : (a) All kinds of deer, 
including cabri or antelope, elk or wapiti, moose, reindeer or 
cariboo, or the fawns of such animals, between January 1 and 
October 1. (i) The varieties of grouse commonly known as 
prairie chicken, or pheasants, and partridges, between Janu- 
ary 1 and September 1. (c) Woodcock, plover, snipe, arid 
sandpipers, between January 1 and August 1. {(I) Any kind 
of wild duck, sea-duck, widgeon, teal, wild swan or wild geese, 
except the variety of wild geese commonly known as snow 
