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attained throughout the country, Sev: enty--s'x pupils had .ghdnlod. 1t he migh ure the term, aince the opeuleg of the ol lege, and of these 36 had sbsn#oure1 farmin ; lHe. Eachof tke 76 jugls had oost the country $1,000, taking as a basis of caloula: tion the interest on capital amsuat, Now the farmirg community w?, 24 a whole, of ' eplulon that m reaped no bene@ : from this txpenditure, they gained no svossilon of | aclentific knowledg:. O tho t 3xty puplia now at the ocllege only niccteen mf.umcn' sone. mest of a model dairy, as it would be pro-- duotive of great benefit. us Mr, CREIGHION oconsidered farming amoug the most honocurable occupations s m» ufjoould follow, and he would be glad to see a means of increaslog the -dmmdxl.now\dgo of its principles. He was a'rald, howeer, tbhat the Agrlcvlinral Collego was a hnmn as thore was no _ moane of dirzeminating the knowledzo there The remvining twenty.onepuplis were sons of merchants, and if the proicges of clty members were thus g1ven the proference Over the sons of farmers the csuutry would ba Meve the whole instltution was a hambug He considered that rAmission should be con:« fined atrictly to the uons of farmérs, Mr. HARDY considered that the repori} given by the member for Petezboro was in« correot, Mr, BOULTER was convinoed that tha la« stiiution hed been mismanaged, . Taers were forty atudents there, of whom th: wurd sukky PEqeREmCCiE s Cl l greater number were not farmors' sous and gever lintended to be farmers. _ The lostita ton was an omflmnt, aud he corridered it would be un to Inour farthor oxpense it would be unwise to incur farthnor OX pen'o for additional buildings. He moved, in amendment, that ar: the Agrlouliwral COol-- lege is a _ purely exgerimental -- ur-- dertakipg, _ and 1t is propseed . to expend $25,000 on additlonal lmlldingo:l LaFL C1 000 OJ3 .0.0 Lalan anenanta TD To C s >A qy Te t dertaking, _ and 1t is propsssd to expend $25,000 on additlonal bulidings, cithont savisfactory avidence belag pregonted t> the House that the sald college ls !!kely to prove successful, the Houss do no*t cim: cur in the appropriation of $16,000, bat sediuoe ths amount to $10,000. Mr., COAMERON siid that as the late Govirnmert favoured the exporimsnt of ontabllabing this coll:ga he did not wish to do avything that youxil'punnt ths G% zern-- o e f rep * 0 1 _ MA *C ~ cee smm ment from making it a suocess Hove-- minded the Goversment thas ons 01 their reasons for changing the site of the Lastllu-- tlon to Guelph was that there was batier acoommodation in the shaps of buildings, and that the roll was euperlor, The Gov-- erament now found the buildings lnndet'[nsto k old 01104504 d 2t i ffccbitincbntP ~orndiiedietencten .. C for the purpose, and wore going to at)c for additicral approptlations fir new balidiags, The cxpendisure was increasiog, the ap pro-- prlatiocs -- had . tcon exo:eded, _ and | yet the Iostituiisn wis nok dolng ' the wiork for which is was intondcl, He did : ob obj:ch to the Government takicg money to make the lostliuilon effislant, thoush it hait tbeen the mesns of showlng that the Governments bad pus their hands in the public chest and taken ous ra020y withoat even an O.dir in OCounoil, Ho reforsed to the memorabl» $1,500 sheque glsen to Proi, McC:rdless by the Attornoy.Ganoral. He refsired to the Oentral Psison, and said thamt | its cont had increased enormously upon the | first catimate, He bhad hsard thas drains | were somatruoted there in the mort defeciive | wey ard without tha authorlty :)( t'ho engl-- lese ~ uW % o _L 2 lsae sastlan Fee mara Seews Cmm t mc w CC of the Opposition tried to insinuate, the Agrloultural Ocliego was a politicoal institnu-- | tlop, the eoomer it was done awsy with th» better, (Hear, henr.) StUl with their usual . consistency they Arst tried to show that it | wase a political affair, and thon advisad that 1t should recsive a fair trial, There was no doubt th':; the !neAu.tltlon ':'t; to far an e,x perimental one. e accommoia-- tion wis not near |m for ail the ap-- plications. The had now on hand some 70 or S0 appllcations, of whlich they had been ob} to refase some thicty or | forty. -- The Government, knowi:g that the same staff could teach one hund puplis as l ::lx asforty--knowlng that the country de. a4 -- adAditional --accommedation -- had h : 4 _> M . _bccdih i hotpectntrad= EU P nu'r. The Model Farm was costing far more than t5e Government bad at tiisk stated, and it was not accomplishing a tiths of its intend. ed objects. Mr. WOOD said that 1!, as the members ticn wis not near a cle plications. The had 1 70 or 80 »fl&"mo hLad heen ob} to ri TDeanaCIE CC CCC se LE come down to the House asking for a small sum for that purpose. As a matier of economy, the only alternative before the Government was either to incroase the ac-- commodation oz oloze the Goucgu.:g alto: gether _ 'The coat of each pupli hed besn | sitogether overntated by hou, members 0p 30-- | NRS""" ~ last vear it hat been only | Government commodatio: gether _ T altogether 0 alte$ for about $700, and it would have been ftar less If the accommodation was greater, The charge that the sitcck had qst too large an amount way--uatrue, as any practioal farmer would admit, If he inasge »t-- ed the stock aud prices pald. It wa: au-- ed the stook aud prices pa'd. l6 wat au-- fortunate that comparatively a lmll,v;fi- pertion of farmers' sons _ attended the n sil. futlop, butstlll It was to be remembered tha't the school was open to a'l who intended fol-- lowlog agrioultural pursuilts, whether they were the sons of farmers, mechanic®, or pro« fesalonal men. They found that pupiis came from nearly all parts of the Province, an L if as some ben, Pntlomm stated, theoxr> were -- none erem _ these _ partlozlar counties, It was all the greater plty that the farmers in those counties did not give the' zons the advantages of a training at the i« »titution The ststement:s made by «s Presiden}t of the College on the oscalon c the recent visit to the isstitution bad b> .: referred \ to, and erp:olally hile rem «ks referred 'to, and erp:oially Ale rem ixs abcus the difficulty of dealing with some of the appilcations. What Mr, Johaston ha stated was that as the membars from the ottles and bowns were Jrotty genera'ly f«. vourable to the institution, while thoss f:s:~ the country were opposed to it, he forns great diffically In refueing applications frow: the former olase, ard scoopting those from the lsttss, He (Mr Wosd) did not choos: to make ufl.r:ply to the remarks of th> momber for Eart Toront >, simply bscausa he could n t see the wisdom of racew-- iog over asd over again dob:ts: which had taken plecs long ago in t House, or of umnrl:g oharges which * been repsatedly replied to, The qussion now be'ore the House and the countr; was whether the Institution was to receiva a fair srial by inoreas'ng the asocmmodation and correspondingly reducing the exrpenss each fupfl. The member for Hastings i4 complaincd that the instituilon _ war dvar'ed, and yet he propssed to do that which would dwarl it still more, 1 aftor a falr trial it was found that #he institutiocn could not be made cxc: sessfu!, i# they found 1t had *to ba given up, the building would not bs 1w« but could be usllised for some pablic pur. Mr MACDOUG ALL (Simooc) said that {:om what had ocourred as Guelph he thought that this was an erparient of very doubt'ul issue. If it is to oost so much to educate those young farmers the socner the soheme be aban: doned the better, Ho was notin favour of erecting permazent et--auotures, which in this event mfiht real'zs much less than the cost. From bis former dpo-hlon and intercourse with farmers he did not anticipate that the moral effect of the farm conduoted upon sach principles would be approciable, It would have the opposite efleot to that anticipared, on account of the great expernce Inourr:d in ralaing the crope. He thoughs that the oountry would sometims sson teil hon. gen-- tlemen that the monay might very much better be spen' in evcouraging the farming o' the country through the agricnltural soo!=ti #. L Ho contended that gentlemen farmil:s waes not svited for this countrg, where labour was ab the bhigheat and the product a*t the lowest, combined with a most psoullar oll mate, Mencf solentific attainments as wel! ar snoiloal are not requized tn this country and will branch off into other matters. He thought it strange that they bad to Import three coliie--doge from Sootland at a cost of $31, Among the subjsots that Mr. Johu: aton wished to teach the students ha zo load the distinguishing of weeds from grass, and soil by handling, maaagemsent of dogs, when to bey and seli and _ approciate She wilue ol common or listle things What showed to bim that the aim of the iInstitution was misappreciated were that among the studies wore botany, struotural botary, agricultural chemistry, | _ _Mr., GRAHAM warsernrized at th«a action l of the Ooposition in this ma't »r, and thought zoology, seasurchins, leech, lobster, spider, &o., &o., aud the pleacing of each animal in in class. (Great laughter.) Hetbou;ht such a curriculum was all very well for gentlemen of solentific predilectlons, but rot what should be taugbt in such as inatitution. As farmers do not patroatzs tbis Imt tution, he could not see the pro-- vriety of spending this money at present He wished to sea it cont'aue in such a soals as would not stcike the public ar being ex-- travagapt, with a bett»r ourrloulum, and one that would net ralse the farmers in op: position and demand its being closed,. He recommended the Government to setrace its ateps and await the development of the soheme as it is,