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Agricultural Commissioner Reprinted from the Sixth Annual Report of the Commission of Cc ervation FRAGILE STOP Do not use book drop. Return directly to Main Circulation. Commission of Conservation CANADA COMMITTEE C.V LAXDS Administration of The Agricultural Instruction Act By C. C. JAMES, C.M.G.. L.L.D. Ai'riciiltural ( omniissio)h'r Rcprinicd from the Sixth Annual Report of the Commission of Conservation OTTAWA 1915 Administration of The Agricultural Instruction Act jyiR. C FIAIRMAN, ladies and nentknic-n : Owin^,' to pressure * of other important work, I am compelled to speak to you this afternoon from notes, instead of presenting a written paper. First, let me say a wo.d or two in regard to The Agricultural JHstrucUon Act which was f.assed two years ai,'o. The Dominion Goveniment. in 191.?, „„ the a.lvice of the ilon. Martin Burrell .\I mister of Aunculture, appropriated S10,0()0,()0() to be expended during a ,)enod of ten \ears, K-lvin^ an averaRc of 81.000,000 . vear For the first year, 191.M4, $700,000 was set a.side ; for the second year, $800,000 ; for the third year, S900.000, and so on, until in 1917 -^e shall reach a maximum of 81,100,000, unless meanwhile, as some ot us h..pe, the Government, in its wisdom, should .see fit to add to that amount. Whether .such an increase would be lustified ay perhaps be determined to some extent wh.-n J conchule this stat ■ .-nt with repard to the chief expenditures of the -^onev in the ' two years. Purpose of ^^'^ '"""'">' '^ ^^^^ ^^'^^'•" ^"^ the purposes of "educa- Appropriaton t'on. instruction and demonstration." As, under The British ■ orth America Act. education is a pre- rogative of the provinces, and is .something in which the Dominion Government is .supposed not to interfere ; this monev is handed over to the vanous provinces to be expended throus^h their Doart- ments of ARricnlture and Education. The Dominion Department of Agriculture does not dictate as to the expenditure of the appro- priations. Our relationship to that work is that of aiding it in an advi.ory capacity, and -supervising the work, and I can onlv say that the utmost harmony has prevailed in the relationship of mvself representing the Minister, and tiie varioi;s Provincial Departments' KM \i I .-, V I (. \ ,. f Cd \ s i; K V ,\ r 1 (I \ Batii of Oiviilon WUIl tlU' stuilcnt-; fi)r I'rctu Tin' l.a.v;^ lit ilniNiiiii iiiniini.; tin- pnivitufs was an l I'lr^t i>i all \Vf >^t aside -.'(>,(MM> a year lor two V( trrii'ary inlli ^h's ; ont' ill "■orniiio, allilialril L'liiviTsiiy "ii t'.pruiiiip. ii.r KtiK'Hsh-spt-akitnj vt'ltTinary and Diif in Motiln-al, altiiiiltMl with I-aval I'liivirsity. -spfakiii^; >tviiU Ills. As itu'sc n)lli'^:cs proxidi' insirucii.jii for all the provinros '.iliko, withoul any disiinrtion, wv thouulu tlial Ihi-y slir)uld [>{.- specially taker, curv of. TluTe was another reason also : the Dnminion Department is continually tleniandin^ trained men for Dominion serviees, both for the inspection and imiteetion of Ii\c'-;^toek ; atid also for the insj)eclion of n;eat, in eonnei'tion with ahaltoirs and .^IaU).;htiT-h(nises. The value ami importance of th( , two colleges are hein^,' reeo^ni.'.ed more and more. Just at the present lime the Department is confronted with a rciiuesl from the Hrii sh. authorities to supjily them with trained veleriiiarii's and the otlicials are fjuitc unable to do so. Then we v: \e 820,000 to each pro.vinee. irresiiective of population, area, or natural production. The halancr of the year's appropria- tion is divided pro rata accordini; to pop.iiation. If we had divided the money .-okly in proportion to po()f'.ition. Prince Kdward Island would have ^ot last year a little over S6,000. On the top of that, however, the Govemment places $20.0(M), so that, while we take a small an-ount away from the larger and richer (irovinces, we mater- ially increase the resources of the smaller provinces. This plan seems to have worked quite satisfactorily. Now a few words as to the expenditure of the money in the various provinces — and if what I say should at times appear to have too much of a perscmal note, if I have to u.se the word "I" fre- quently, it is bccau.sc of the way in which the subject is presented. My report, now completed, ami in the press, is more formal and describes the work in more detail. Agriciltcrai. Edv (ATIdn i\ Printi: i:DWAi• y.ar l.v S,„.„. „ „ "" l''«7 thf amount will In- ?n,754, What has I..,.,, ,!,„„. with that mon.'v ' First of ail It was mri'ssary to havi- .itTi.cs aii.l a l.vture hill ,. '""' •"' ••'J'^'i'ltMral hall was socurcl in Charlottc- .',7n '" uTu """''"'^ "'"' '"■ ^'^'^' --""^ ''''"I'mstrations .an lu- MN^ri. At the prt-sont time- two or three hun.lred stu.lonts. vounv; ^ai.rT :""''"'• ■""' "■'■" "'*' ">"' '^'"" ''- f^'--' f-'"^ -'• K'atliero.l there receivmK msirueti. n in vari..iis ' s. < )n th,. Islan.l there is a clU-,-.. kn.,u-n as F> '.{ Wales C„lk.K'o At various tunes the Serr.tarv f.,r A,ri,-ul,, .„.l o,,p,.rtunUv UuJr ;"r"''.^'"i: '" ^'":'""^^ '" aiten.lan.-e at this e,.lle«e on nature M .1> an,! a.TK-u ture ; but wich this Fe.leral K'rant at th.. .lisposal ot the provmce, the colle.-e was enahle.l to at once estahlish a .l..tinite an.l eor^iplete course in agriculture ani.l Prof, Rei.l, instructor m hve-st.,ck. Stnce the • regular curses have been ...stablishe.!. classes have been camc-l on, some for short terms an.l s.,,,,.. for I..,,,- terms ; so that students can now «« to Pnnce of Wales College an.l KCt a course ,n agriculture, including; live-stock, field-crops, dairvin.. ll'S'.' "' "'""■' *^'^' *"^*™^-"'" i" lan^,'ua,'es and in the natural' Coun^ Inittuetort I" oidition to college courses in agriculture last ta.tiJ;f.T'°* ^■^■^^■/"•- '*^^ '■"■^t ti -e. the Provincial Government h.,M„ introduce he practice, copied from Ontario, of hannK county mstructors d the three counties of the Island were placed m char>,'e ■! three ..epartmenfal oHlcers. The business of hcse men ,s -. Ice.p :„ touch with the farmers and their methods, U, advise, direct .nd assist in every way possible. The next step ^^as . . orK'anizaf. ., of Women's Institutes on the Island. These arc ,r cry flourishing condition and they are .-rowin,, as in the other provinces, much n,.,re rapidly than any ..f the men's agri- cultural or^'anizations. nnnlf r ''"' 'u'"^'""' "^ "'''"■■" ''"•'>■ =^"'' '-iKTiculture has been Wnl r'n '" '>\''"'*''^^ -f^""'^' Cour.^.s are hel.l at Prince of Wales College dunn^ the . immer. in whuh special instruction in these subjects is Kiven the teachers, and all the public school in- spectors, who are under the direct supervision of the Government have inaugurated a system of school gardens and competitions for boys and ^irls at a very small cost to the province The result is that instead of having only a Secretarv for Agr culture as before .he Provincial Department now has a permanent 4 C O M M I S S I O N O F C O N S E R V A T Id N Staff of five instructors and carries on work along many lines. At the same time the Dominion work has not been slackened. There is goinK on at the present time on the Island an agricultural move- ment that would surprise the other provinces of Canada. Prince Edward Island is one province in Canada that has yet to learn that we have been passing through hard times for the last two years. It is an island of farmers alone. All of these movements have been taken up in a whole-hearted way, the Provincial and Dominion officials co-operating most thoroughly, and among the things contributing to their imi)rovemcnt we can truly state that the expenditure of this Dominion money has formed a very impor- tant part. To assist in administering the Act, a permanent staff of five persons has been organized lo assist the Secretary, and in March, 1915, Prof. W. R. Reek, B.S.A.,of the Ontario Agricultural College, will take ofl^cc in charge of the general instruction work provided through the Federal appropriation. Progress in AGRirvLTrRF, in Nova Scotia In Nova Scotia the Federal grant started at S54,288, and an annual addition of S6,85« will bring this in 191 7 to S81,719. There is a peculiar situation in Nova Scotia. The j-rincipal of the agri- cultural college at Truro is also Provincial Secretary for Agriculture, so that the agricultural life of Nova Scotia is centred, not in Halifax, but in the beautiful little town of Truro. There is the normal school, there is the agricultural college, and there are the head- quarters of all the provincial agricultural officials. We began in Nova Scotia by strengthening agriculture right at its fountain head. At Truro there was an agricultural college doing good work under Principal Melville Cumining, but it was sadly handicapped for buildings, equipment, and men. The first thing done was to set aside a substantial sum for enlarging the one college building they had. To-day they have a college main-building twice the size of the old institution. In addition to that a horti- cultural building has been erected, with full equipment also for the carrying on of entomological work ; and the foundation has been laid and the walls are almost completed for a new science building. They have not enough money in this year's approjjriation for the science building and they have borrowed the money to put the building up, and are going to lake out of the Dominion appropriation a certain amount each year to liquidate that debt, paying off the principal and interest during the continuance of this Act.* *A(Hiti.t the teaching at present is somewhat handicapped. At Ste. Anne-de-la- Pocatiere the same plan has been followed. At Mac- donald College eight additional instructors have been appointed, chiefly to carry on extension work. Many other lines have been 8 C O M M I S S I () \ O F C O N S E It V A T I () X inauRuratcd and extended by the Provincial Department, such as fruit culture, dairying;, tobacco-t,'rowinB, bce-keepinR, drainage, and domestic science instruction. The result is that twenty-seven offices have been created in Quebec, provided for out of this >,'rant, and twenty-seven permanent instructors appointed. In addition to these, there were many temporary assistants during the summer. Developing Agricultural Lvstruction in- O.ntario In Ontario the grant was $195,7,?,? the first year, with an addition of $.?3,147 annually until, in 1917, the grant will bo brought up to $,?36,,?19. Ontario had more lines of agricultural work organized than any other province, so that naturally what they would do would be mainly to extend or enlarge tlie organization already in operation. The Federal grant furnished them with additional in- structors, and the Provincial Depa 'mcnt also added a few more branches or departments. In all, 49 instructors have been ap- pointed so far. There have been created a department of co- operation and marketing, and also a department of vegetable grow- ing. But the main use of the money in Ontario has been simply to take the organizations already created, enlarge them and appoint more men. In regard to district representatives, through this grant, the province has been able to provide for twenty additional counties and now there are only three counties left unprovided with district representatives of the Provincial Department. The twenty new offices which have been created, call for the appointment of twenty men, each having an assistant, and this branch thereby accounts for forty additional instructors in agriculture spread over the province and carrying the work of instruction direct to the farmers on their own farms. The Agricultural College at Guclph was in need of further equipment and the Federal grant assisted materially in providing increased accommodation there. In the first place, the fmest field husbandry building on the continent stands there to-day— nothing superior, and I think nothing equal to it, is to be found anywhere in the United States. Then there are new dairy barns, and a most complete and serviceable poultry building. And work is now proceeding on a fourth building devoted to soil physics. , A(L- I < ^ ^!ive mentioned two new lines of work ; another Competitions" * ""'^ ^ would like to refer to particularly, because it is spreading .so much more rapidly than its most earnest friends expected, it is the plot-growing competition work done by boys and girls on the farm, and the exhibition of products at school fairs. You can go to some counties in Ontario where they AG RICULTL'RAL INSTRUCTION- ACT I have school fairs held by boys and ^irls of the farms, who bring the products of their plots, stables, poultry, dairy, etc., which are draw- ing larger crowds and attracting more attention than many of the old established fall fairs. The enthusiasm with which they have taken hold of this is most extraordinary. Full reports of this work will be available shortly. Through work of this kind agriculture in the province is getting a grip on the boys and girls on the farms that ha.s never been known before. This project was a happy suggestion. We are getting favourable reports of the results obtained from it in all the provinces, from British Columbia, in the West, to Prince Edward Island, in the l':asl. Wherever the boys and girls do the work, produc" things themselves, and bring the products into com- petition, the greatest interest is being aroused. If we can only get hold of the boys and girls on the farm we need not worrv about their fathers and mothers. To-day sixty-five farmers' sons are being given a short course at the Agricultural College at Guclph, and it is out of the Federal grant that their expenses to that college have been paid. Each one of those boys, in his own county or district, won first place last year in growing potatoes in acre plots. The prize was a two weeks' free course at the Agricultural College. Many of these boys will later go back for a longer course. The foundations have been laid in Ontario for an extensive teaching of agriculture in the schools. The Provincial Department of Education supplemented its own grant by adding to it from the Federal grant, $10,000 in 1913 and $13,000 in 1914. In 1915 the addition will be $30,000. Unique Methods in Manitoba The grant to Manitoba in 1913 was $51,730. An annual addition of $6,346 will bring it in 1917 to $77,114. Manitoba is peculiar in that the Department of Agriculture handles all the money itself, none of it goes to the Agricultural College for additional members to the staff or for supplementing salaries as in other provinces, and none goes to the Education Department for teaching agriculture in the public schools. The Provincial Governmi 'las decided that it is the best way for Manitoba and is expcndi: .hat way. The Department of Education has for some time carried on the work of teaching nature study and agriculture in the schools under the direction of Mr. B.A. The Provincial Department spends the most obtained from the Federal grant in demonstration Nature Study in Schools J. H. Watson of the money farms, and in demonstration trains, Their purpose is to organize iO COMMISSI U N U F C () N S E R V A T I O N these demonstration farms all over Manitoba. Seven additional permanent instructors have also been appointed. The extension of mixed farming is of j;reat imiwrtance and these demonstration farms or plots are to teach the r n. who for the last 26 years have been Krowing wheat alone, that money can be made out of other crops, that the farms can be kept r eaner and more profit made. They are steadily directing the farmers of the West to mixed farming. Let me give just one instance in connection with instruc- tion work there. Last spring, Mr. s. A. Bedford, the Deputy Min- ister of Agriculture, told me that he was very much concc led about the conditions among the Ruthenians. They were small dairy farmers, but the creameries would not take their milk, as their methods of handling it were unsatisfactory. He repo-ted that there was only one way whereby they could be helped, and that was by sending a special instructor to work among them. The Minister appointed a special instructor, and. as a helper, engaged an interpreter also. These two men started out in the early summer among the Ruth- enians, going from house to house, showing them how milk and its products should be handled, and last autumn Mr. Bedford stated that a great improvement had been made ; sone of them are now sending their milk to the creameries. Methods Applied iv Saskatchewan In Saskatchewan, $51,296 was the appropriation the first vear, and an annual addition of S6,859 will bring that up to $81,733 in 1917. No two provinces expend the grant in the same way. This province divided the money equally ; one-half being given to the Faculty of Agriculture of the University of Saskatchewan, and the other kept to be spent directly by the Department of Agriculture. In this way Dean Rutherford has an annual increase of $27,000 to his provincial appropriation. President Murray and Dean Rutherford decided to invest the money in additional men for the stafT of the university as rai ■■■lly as qualified men could be obtained. The result has been that aiicady thirteen additional professors and instructors have been appointed. These men were put on mainly for the purpose of extension work. In addition to the thirteen added to the staff of the university, eight provincial instructors attached to the Agricultural Department have been appointed, making in all twenty-one. Agriculture in ^^^ .""^^^ "^^""'^ '^ ^° introduce agriculture into the Public Schools public schools of the province. The province is about to appoint a director of rural education, and one or two directors of domestic science. I am not sure whether or A G R I C U L T U R A L 1 N S T R f C T I ( I N A C T II not they have yet found the man for that position. Saskatchewan has decided to take the annual addition to their ^;rant, and set it aside for instruction in the public schools. That would He $7,000 this year and $14,000 next year and $21,000 the year after, increasing thus until each of the three branches share equally. Agricultiral Schools of Alberta We come next to the province of Alberta. When I first visited Edmonton in connection with this work, the Minister of Agriculture said to me : "I want an agricultural school in Alberta. We have six demonstration farms, and I would like eventually to have an aRricultural school at every one of these farms." He said that he thought he could get one school erected that year, if he could use the Federal grant to equip and maintain it. I replied that the money could be expended on one, two or more schools if the Government so desired. After attending a meeting of the cabinet-in-council. held that same day, he was able to report, that when the council was told that the Federal money could be used to equip and maintain these schools, it was agreed to provide not only one, but three schools. The three schools were established, and are now holding classes in their second year. At a later interview, the Minister announced that he was anxious to secure a qualified Canadian, if possible, to put in charge of the third school. I told him of a man that filled the requirements, but who was at that time in the United States. What we want is to get as many as possible of our educated Canadians back into Canada, because we need them. We have been exporting them for years. The stiite ii. whose employ this man was working raised his salary S200 or SjOO, but the Minister met the increase, and the result is that Mr. Howe is now in charge of the igricultural school at Vermilion. He is being paid S2.700. Of course when they paid that salary to r",e they had to lock for $2,700 men for the other schools ;o. The Canadian Pacific Railwr. Co. has been watching the work of these schools in Alberta, and the officials arc so satisfied with the value of agricultural instruction that they are inclined to give some substantial assistance. Did you ever hear of anything just like that proposed in this country before ? The work done in these schools must be valuable if a railway corporation thinks they are of such value that money should be given to build another school. There are fifteen instructors in agriculture in Alberta pro'-idcd for out of the Federal grant. This grant started with 846,095, and increases by 85,219 until it reaches 866,971 in 1917. Getting Qualified Instructors « COMMISSION OK CONSHRVATION' ACRICILTIHAL InsTRICTION I\ BrITISH CoLlMBIA In British Colunihia, the appropriation the first vear was $47,.1J4 and an annual addition of $5,467 will brinj; it to '$69,202 in 1917. Thi- I'rox-indal Dei.artment has been usinj; its Federal jjrant mostly for iield competitions, and boys' and Kids' competitions. The otficials have been carrying on field-crop competitions very exten- sively all over the i-rovince. It is a very expensive province in which to do work. TravellinK is hi^jh and the vallevs are far apart so that they cannot be expected with 850,000 to do anything like the work that is done with a similar amount in the Maritime Pro- vinces. Those in charue of the work say thev can see most de- cidedly beneficial results from their competitions and their instruc- tion in the (,'rowinK of field-crops. Agriculture in "^I^ extraordinary incident occurred at a conference PubUc Schools with the Provincial Departments of Agriculture a.id Education in the spring of 1914. I pointed out to them at that time that they were not using any of the Federal grant for teaching agriculture in the public schools, and that while field and garden competitions were probably valuable, it was essential that agricultural instruction should be carried on in the public schools, in order to make the work permanent. The ofliciaLs quickly assented and, to our agreeable surprise, they have this vear set aside no less than $15,000 out of their $52,000 grant, for this work. That is, at present, the largest appropriation made by any province in Canada, and it simply proves how much British Columbia appre- ciates the value of public school instruction. Mr. J. W. Gibson, lately of the Ottawa Normal School, was placed in charge of this work. I would like to read two or three sentences from a letter recci\-ed from Mr. Gibson only yesterday : ''I arrived Friday afternoon, July .?rd (1914), and took charge of the summer school students in agriculture, who arrived Monday w^^ir'^M^y ^^'^^- i ^''Pected about thirty or forty at the most We had 180 on the roll, and 171 finished the course. We had 600 teachers in summer classses in Viccona for one month— over one- third of the teaching stafT of the province. I was quite unprepared for such a crowd. Thanks to the co-operation of the Department of Agriculture, we were able to avail ourselves of the services of several men engaged here in that department. Mr. Scott, Deputy Minister of Agnculture, has given me every assistance, as has every man I have had to do with in his department." Nine agricultural instructors are being paid out of the Federal grant to British Columbia. AGRICULTURAL INSTRUCTION ACT I.) Details of the lines refurred to and also of many other lines of provincial educational work, not touched uptm here, will he found in the report to the Minister of A^nculture, Hon. Martin Burrelj, which has just been completed, and which will be available in a few weeks. CiENEKAL ResILTS TllROlGHOl T CaNAUA What are the results ? The Federal v;rants have furnished about $250,000 for buildinj^s and equipment for agricultural instruction ; they have provided for 155 permanent instructors in the several provinces ; they have made possible an extension of the lines of demonstration in every i)rovince ; they have enabled several pro- vinces to organize for instructing the women of the farm ; and they have made great progress in initiating and extending the work of teaching agriculture in the puV)Iic schools. To those who hear these words, or read them in print, there is no need of argument as to the benefits that may accae. One of the most active of our agricultural leaders has said : "We needed money, our province is poor, we did not know where to look for more. This grant canu' jvst at the right time. What we need is ti:orc, for we know how we could spend it with goful advantage to the country." One more word in conclusion. The surressliil carrying out of legislation of the nature of this A^riiultunil I i:sirttctio\i Act* is de- pendent upon the s])irit of tho.se behind it, as well as the attitude of those whom it inmediatcly affects. I have stated that the Provin- cial Departments, both Agricultural and Educational, have heartily co-operated. I would like to make sijccial mention of the fact that the Minister of Agriculture, Hon. Mr. Burrell, has given it his most enthusiastic support. It was not merely the fulfilling of a promise, or the meeting of a demand ; it was the framing and carry;;ig out of legislation in accordance with his own personal views and in harmony with his general agrcidtural i)olicy. •THE AGRICULTURAL INSTRUCTION ACT 2nd Session, 12th Parliament, 3-4 George V., Chai-. .";, 1912-13. .Ijs.h.'H to 6th June, 191.?. An Act for the granting of aid for the aclvunccmcnt of Agricultural Instruction in the Provinces. Whereas it is desirable that encouragement be given to agriculture in all the provinces of Canada, and whereas great and permanent benefit will result through education, instruction and demonstration carried on along lines well dc\-iscd and of a continuous nature : Therefore His Majesty, by anti with the advice ai.d con.sent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows :— !. This Act may tje cited as The Agricultural Instruction Act. " C- < . M M I S S r (. \ n F C () \ S E R V A T I n X NtinU,<.[",f a;;^:1;::;;' •" ^"^ ^'••""^"''^"^ -"-''■ 'HTcun.lcr.--Minis.er" moans the l)y instruction illowinK sums, "f the Omsiili- "l of tcti years thousunil nine thousaml nine thousand nine thous.incJ nine thnuvun^,^::^co^^:'l:Z:T^ tl,c last shall In.. cJarried forward -luring any one or more, ,f the sua';:!!!;;'.;.';.:^"'"' "" "^^' P"^'*=' "' '^'^ Act follows T*^' "'""'•'^■■^ appropriated for each year shall be apportioned and paid as to asl^:^ i);" n:!;^rSaS'?.oIIS^S:^;^'jir' »^-»".'- P««l - -ch year amount to ho distribute,! amon/the c^^X™ difi^. I l^l P-^.Y-n^^the sai.i annual degrees m veterinary science -n prop^? ion lo^^h, n ItC Itplly authonze.1 to grant sa.,i colleges resixctiveiy for the pr^ums '" ' ,„^"'"'^'^ "^ f "'I'^nts enrolled at the t.ons and conditions as Ly In- pSbe,i Ty tht. Mini^u^T "'' ^'''' '""" ''«"'''• m,..„t'o'f I'^'p^rincr;"'^ ''"""""^ ''''"''" ^•'^" ^^ P-^^ - -'-•h year to the Govern- the sa.d provmces r.^^^^^i^^ZJ^Z^^^t^'Xl!^ ditioL'in'''a^rm':n^bT.i"'?c?^'^hc"M\'nrste"ra;^^^ ^^^^ P^^'"-- '- -"- as to the terms, conditions and pur^'sesw thin Z meanVjT.r"! "^ ""^ P~""^« which the payments are to be ma,lTand mnl, "l . n ? . ^ ^ ""' '^'''' "P°" ^n.l for to the approval of the G,.veni"r in Councfl. '""'" "grc-ement shalfbe subjc-ct provLI^of^?Sct'".n^l?jrsulTn^^^^^^ ^' '''■' ''^''^"'^ ^"^ ^•'^^ng ""t the s^iry to insure the ex pern ture of th Tin^ ''■■'^!:* '" "'^ "^^"^■ of this Act and the aKreement, and LSms m accordance with the intention and the saUmes andl^x^^s of ;Lh^ofc shall L":l:^T ">^,^"'hority of this Act ; pnated by Parliament fo.- the purpose? '""^ °"' °^ "''-' """"ey^ «??">- for ^^^^l^1^1IZS^l^:^±^ are deemed advisable thmg m this Act, the Minister, with tlTe^p^rovIl',;^ tli^e^reLr^ot^cS ^^^ ACR ICL I.'ir RAL I NSTR L(ri(»\ ACT 15 thr Act for the purj^ost's ' ' fortli in ttu- pri'ainl)U- of tlii-. Ail. "• 'Ihc Minister shall annually lay Man- Parliament, during the first ten ilay^ of the sussion, a refxirt (if all priKveiliiiKs umler this Art for the last pre.eilinK *i->tal year, which report shall contain a full an.l aci urate sLitetnert of the moneys eu[xniloil, the purpos<>s to which they have tnvn ap^.'lieil ami the- work ilone ijv the several pn- s in the eamin|{ of the subsiiclieii piii-i c^r luthoiized to Ix- piiiil.' •J. The Atrirullural Aul Act, tliapter i of ihe statuVis of |g|i, is r.'|)ealc(l.