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 the country. It will train the rural population to remain in the country. It will convince the young mind that the work of the farmer gives scope for intelligence and scholarship, and holds out the promise that a life of industry in the country will win rewards of prosperity, independence, and happiness.'

This article has already grown to such length that I must drop school gardens and consolidation, contenting myself (and maybe some keenly interested reader) by promising that at an early date some Canadian educator will furnish a better and fuller account of their scope, effect, and value.

It still remains to be stated that Sir William Macdonald's purpose could not be satisfied with even these splendid helps towards the improvement of rural education. The movement needed headquarters where teachers could be trained for what has been called 'The New Education.' In consequence, the Macdonald Institute, provided by a gift of £38,000 to the province of Ontario, stands on a campus adjoining the Ontario Agricultural College. At it the Ontario Government provides courses of instruction and training for teachers and others in Nature study, household science, and manual training. Forty selected teachers are there at present, on scholarships provided by provincial departments of education and the Macdonald Funds, receiving training to introduce one or more of those branches into rural schools. After a few years the Macdonald Institute, having served its first purpose in training teachers already in the service of schools, is to become an integral part of the Ontario Agricultural College, to give farmers' daughters an opportunity for advanced education suitable for rural life.

As a permanent headquarters in Canada for this movement, and also to serve particularly the province of Quebec in its agriculture and in the training of teachers for its Protestant schools, a new college is being founded at St. Anne de Bellevue. A beautiful site, where the Ottawa flows into the St. Lawrence, is