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and extent of the buildings, and as there are none such in the Dominion of New Zealand, 1 herewith append photographs of these, together with others showing many phases of agricultural instruction and advancement. The completed structures comprise ten magnificent fireproof buildings of brick and stone. The main building, which stands in the centre of the campus, contains the offices of administration, the Field Husbandry Department, the Home Economics Department, the Department of English, the library and reading-room, and the post-office. The other buildings are the Chemistry, Physics, and Soils building, the Horticulture, Biology, Bacteriology, and Forestry building, the Agricultural Engineering building, the power-house, the President's residence, and the students' residence. Besides these ten buildings, there is the horse-barn, the beef-cattle barn, the dairycattle barn, the sheep-barn, the swine-barn, and live poultry-houses. The students' residence has accommodation for five hundred students, and is provided with diiiiug-rooni, kitchen, sitting-rooms, gymnasium, and swimming-pool. It would be well to remember that, the population of the Province of Manitoba at last census (1911) was only 455,614. This magnificent group of buildings therefore goes to prove in a most emphatic manner that the people of the provinces of Canada are alive to the necessity for providing for the teaching of the sciences related to agriculture and home economics, agriculture and its allied branches being the main industry and revenue-producing factor of the Dominion; in fact, like New Zealand, agriculture is its great and fundamental industry. Manitoba Agricultural College may be taken as an example of a, most vigorous educational centre that has got beyond the experimental stage. Formally opened in .1.906, it has widened its activities until it has now the power to confer degrees in agriculture. It is purely a State undertaking, the Provincial Legislature making appropriations from year to year for maintenance and equipment, and its government rests in a board of ten directors, four elected by the agricultural societies of the province and five by the Governor in Council, with the Minister of Agriculture an ex officio member. The appropriation by the Provincial Legislature for maintenance in 1914 was £10,000, and in addition the moneys collected in fees and so on amounted to, roughly, £14,000. The total enrolment in general courses was 363, and in short courses 437, a total enrolment of 800. The work of the college is grouped under three sections—agriculture, home economics, and extension service—but these three are subdivided into a series oi courses that give the widest possible opportunities for study. The principal course in agriculture is one covering three winters of five months each, the idea being, of course, that the farmer's sou may work, on the farm in the invaluable summer months of the year. During the first winter at the college much time is given to the study of principles, and in the second and third winters to a more extended application of the principles to the various phases of the work on the farm. The course in home economics is a two-winter course of five months each, though a complete course may be given in the first winter for those unable to give mote time. The two-years students may proceed to a degree in home economics by completing three additional winters' work. Of the greatest importance among the special courses (given in addition to the regular and degree courses) the teachers' course has been specially provided at the request of the Education Department, and it is compulsory for all second-class teachers attending normal schools. Canada has decitled that as a large number of its rural population acquire in the public schools the only special training they receive for their life's work, it is necessary that those who control country schools should be in sympathy with agriculture. Farmers' week is for the benefit of farmers who cannot spend more than seven days at the college, but during that time they may take part in lectures and discussions or- attend "a short course. The estimated expenditure for a year at the college is well under £30, which includes board for (roughly) five months, tuition fees, and everything else. The course of study is complete and exhaustive, As an instance of the nature of the study, the list of subjects in each year may be given, with the number of credits against each indicating the relative amount of time spent on each subject. FIRST YEAR. Credits. Credits. Field husbandry ... ... 400 English... ... ... 300 Animal husbandry ... 400 Book-keeping ... ... 100 Veterinary science ... 200 Physics ... ... ... 100 Dairy husbandry ... ... 200 Arithmetic ... ... 200 Horticulture, &c. ... ... 200 Soils ... ... ... 100 Botany ... ... .... 300 Gas-engines ... ... 100 Forage-work ... ... 200 Military drill ... ... 100 Woodwork ... ... 200 SECOND YEAR. Credits. Credits. Field husbandry ... ... 300 Physics ... ... ... 200 Animal husbandry ... 300 Agricultural engineering ... 400 Veterinary science ... 200 Chemistry ... ... 300 Dairy husbandry... ... 200 English... ... ... 350 Entomology ... ... 100 Agricultural economics ... 100 Botany ...' ... ... i! 00 Poultry husbandry ... 200 Bacteriology ... ... 200 Soils ... ... ... 200