SCHOOL PROPERTY. 82. No schoolhouse, or any building or ground, or furniture pertaining thereto, shall be used or occupied for any other than Public School purposes without the express permission of the Trustees acting in their corporate capacity. TEMPORARY THIRD CLASS LICENSES. 83. When the Board of Trustees of any school district report that they cannot obtain a suitable teacher, the Chief Superintendent may, if he deems it necessary in the interest of the school service, issue a temporary Third Class License to any suitable person of fair qualification to teach the school in such district. Such license shall be valid for the school year in which it is issued, and shall entitle the holder to a salary from the Provincial Treasury at the rate of $80 per annum. TEACHERS' INSTITUTE. 84. On giving notice to the Trustees and pupils, teachers shall be entitled to be absent from their schools, for the purpose of attending Teachers' Associations, or the Provincial Education Institute, two legally authorised teaching days in each school year. The time so taken must be exclusively devoted to the work of the Association or Institute. INSPECTION. 85. The Inspectors shall report monthly to the Chief Superintendent, upon forms furnished by the Education Department, the result of their observation and enquiry. They shall also make a general annual report to the Chief Superintendent on or about the 31st day of December. 86. In addition to the duties assigned to Inspectors by law and by existing regulations, it shall be their duty, and they are hereby required :— (a) To report on applications for new school districts, or for a change of school boundaries. (b) To examine the records of the Boards of School Trustees, when deemed necessary, and to see that they are properly kept and entered into a Minute Book. (c) To examine the Register, and enter therein the date of their visit. (d) To note the condition of the schoolhouse and premises, and to see that the school is in all respects conducted and maintained in conformity with the Law and the Regulations of the Board of Education. 87. When the Trustees of any school refuse or neglect to provide sufficient school accommodation, or to conduct the school in conformity with the Law and the Regulations and orders of the Board of Education, the Chief Superintendent shall have the power to withhold all Government allowances from the teacher. 88. The Inspector, while officially visiting a school, has supreme authority in the school, and has the right to direct teachers and pupils in regard to any or all of the exercises of the schoolroom. He may either examine the classes himself or direct the teacher to do so. He is at liberty to give such advice to pupils or to the teacher as he may deem necessary. MISCELLANEOUS. 89. All teachers remaining unemployed for more than two consecutive years must again qualify by passing a satisfactory examination, according to law, before entering into an agreement to teach in the Public Schools, unless such teachers have been attending an institution of learning. 90. Academic Licenses do not lapse under Section 89 of the Regulations of the Board of Education. 91. Licenses of the First Class, if obtained upon making an average of over 75 per cent. of the marks attainable at any examination held subsequently to the 1st of January, 1881, do not lapse under Section 89. SCHOOL LIBRARIES. 92. No book hostile to the Christian religion, or of an immoral or sectarian tendency, shall be permitted in a School Library. 93. The School Library shall be held by the Trustees in trust as a part of the school property. They shall appoint a Librarian, and make such rules and regulations for the preservation and circulation of the books as they may deem necessary. 94. After July, 1896, all Candidates for Matriculation into the Prince of Wales College and Normal School shall be required to take the Junior and Senior Examinations. 4226. 2 P2 MEMORANDUM ON AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION IN CANADA. By WM. SAUNDERS, LL.D., Director of Dominion PROVINCIAL AIDS Agricultural Schools Other Organisations DOMINION AIDS TO AGRICULTURE 533 533 534 534 Information relating to agriculture in Canada is given to the farming community by both the Provincial and Dominion Governments. PROVINCIAL AIDS. 1. Agricultural Schools.--Some of the Provinces maintain agricultural schools for the practical education of young men in farming. The Ontario College of Agriculture at Guelph, Ontario, is the best of these institutions in Canada. It is well equipped and well managed and has been in operation for about twenty-five years. There a large number of the sons of Canadian farmers receive practical training in their calling. An experimental farm is also carried on in connection with this institution. The full course of study covers a period of three years. The fees for tuition are nominal, and the cost of living is reduced to a very small figure owing to the practice of crediting students with the value of the labour performed by them on the farm. In the Province of Quebec there are several smaller agricultural schools in different parts of the Province, the most important of which is located at Compton, Quebec, in connection with an experimental farm. For the use of this memorandum, the Editor of these volumes is indebted to the High Commissioner for the Dominion of Canada. Reference should also be made to an interesting paper on Agricultural Education in Greater Britain read by Mr. R. Hedger Wallace to the Society of Arts (London), on February 27, 1900, and printed in the Society's Journal for March 9, 1900. A school of Agriculture has been in operation at Truro, Nova Scotia, associated with an experimental station, for ten or twelve years past, and in the same Province a school of Horticulture has been in operation for the past three or four years, at Wolfville, Nova Scotia. Tuition is free in both schools. In New Brunswick a Government Training farm has been opened at Penobsquis, near Sussex. Tuition is free. 2. Other Organisations. Other agencies which also render valuable help in this connection are Dairy Schools, Travelling Dairies, Farmers' Institutes. Livestock and Dairy Associations, Fruit Growers' Associations (associated, in Ontario, with a number of Fruit Experiment Stations), Poultry Associations, and Agricultural and Horticultural Societies. These are all maintained or assisted by the several Provinces by annual grants, and there are many of such organisations in every Province. The members connected with these associations, &c., meet from time to time. to discuss matters relating to the branches of agriculture they represent, and the more important papers read at such meetings are published by the Provincial Governments and distributed, free of charge, to farmers who desire to receive them. DOMINION AIDS TO AGRICULTURE. The progress of agriculture in Canada has been greatly stimulated by the organisation and maintenance of experimental farms by the Dominion Government. Five of these farms have been established in different parts of the Dominion. This work was begun in 1887, the institutes being so located as to render efficient help to the farmers in the more thickly settled districts, and at the same time to cover the most varied climatic and other conditions which influence agriculture in this country. The Central Experimental Farm is situated at Ottawa, near the boundary line between Ontario and Quebec, where it serves as an aid to agriculture in these two important Provinces. A site for one of the four branch experimental farms was chosen at Nappan, Nova Scotia, near the boundary between that Province and New Brunswick, where it serves the purposes of the three Maritime Provinces. A second branch farm has been established at Brandon, in the central portion of Manitoba; a third at Indian Head, a town in Assiniboia, one of the Northwest Territories; and a fourth at Agassiz, in the coast climate of British Columbia. At all these farms experiments are conducted to gain information as to the best methods of preparing the land for crop and of maintaining its fertility, the most useful and profitable crops to grow, and how the various crops grown can be disposed of to the greatest advantage. To this end experiments are conducted in the feeding of cattle, sheep, and swine for flesh, the feeding of cows for the production of milk, butter, and cheese, and of poultry both for flesh and eggs. Experiments are also conducted to test the merits of new or untried varieties of cereals and other field crops, of grasses, forage plants, fruits, vegetables, plants, and trees and samples, particularly of the |