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 setting, will constitute as fine a group as has been seen in connection with any agricultural institution on the continent. It is expected that the main buildings will have their roofs on before the winter of the present year, and, barring unforeseen accidents or causes of delay, the college will be ready to receive students in the autumn of 1906.

Sir William Macdonald's real monument will be in the enriched lives of the rural population of half a continent, conserving the liberty, intelligence, justice and goodwill which our Empire is a means of bringing in ever-increasing fulness to all its citizens.