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w levelled against the Canadian fut" er. and it was necessary to bring cre skill and capital to hear. The ith" u ent, he thought, could be ask. , , p to show the farmers how to 7 The principle should be tea-xt- " ' small way. on a 100-acre farm; g}, be repeated, extended. and tin- Bly, If it proved successful, brought e n the reach of all. He would sug- gest to the Government that it arrange a plan whereby 'he practical results or the combination he had mentioned, suits which he had tested in his own perience, could be placed before the pie, The results, he predicted. f uld exceed the most satutuine t'X- tations. In his personal experience had found that doubling the capital d labor had meant increasing the _ uct four times and the profit ten _ es. He would give his time to the vernment tor this purpose without urging a cent. He hoped to see tho vernment take the matter up, and l that he could do to assist it he ould. If such a step "'t'rt- not intro- ced, he observed. he likt-lv would ve some such measure himself lit'xt ion. He concluded by saying again t he desired to offer his services to e Government in the nmttcr, and by yin: that he approval of the (Edith- shment of the pioneer farm in Al- oma, but thought that something hould be done for the older sections of the Province. dndebtedttess has inert-as- .tho Government or the Pro- , he asked. and he an- omot- a bit 'of it." He did ttetieve that there was a better for the position than the Minister T t Agriculture in the Province or on the continent. (Applause.) The Gov- ernment was not to blame because it was not in a position to control the condition of agriculture; if. however, a way of relieving the condition of ami- culture were discovered, and the Gov. ernment neglected to avail itself of it. it would be to blame. Such a discov- ery had been made, Mr. McPherson 'contended; and he explained at Home length the conditions governing agri- iculture, observing that it was the most dimcuit profession of all. and that for ucvess in it a combination of skill. pital and labor was necessary. No proach on the subject of labor could abstaining from granting useless - tuities. by appointing fewer ofm'ialy, " issuing fewer commissions and by Betting out the public accounts in a form more like that adopted in the uditor-Genera" report, so that a loser check on them could be kept. iMr. Manor then disausscd the ex- nditure on public institutions. main. ning that there had been an in.. . e in the expenditure in the asy- - of " 1-2 per cent. from 1873 to and all increase in the Deaf and y .ee, "tee of 11 1-2 per cent.. and if . thstanding the fact that r' 7 rr hat is necessary can be r. ' y r 50 per cent. loss than in h ,.- e Government, he said, had _'e WHamuton to buy groceries for "il r " institutions in Toronto. The leader of the Opposition follow- 1, the first part of his speech being sharp attack on Mr. McPherson, ose offer of assistance to the Gov- ent he satirized by expressing a that the Government would "(for tthe tlrst portfolio own. He charg- e Patrons with changing their cs when they had succeeded in 7 tr into the House, and supporting vernment they had attacked. He glad that they had got to the end heir tether. he said, and that they re now unmasked. He then went to charge the Government with en- ous increases in expenditure, say- that in 1880 The Globe had thought expenditure of $2,518,000 the maxi- tum, whereas the expenditure has im- Enseiy increased since then. He then imed that decreases could he made _ entity. He then question of educa- thht in return for the expenditure there have been ved its In the . shape of in- _ rs of schools, while the wed have improved. and By! is considered good. But he make one comment, that too material is given to the children e training of their minds, and mtttlcient training in expression ot be given. . McPherson then discussed the tion of agriculture, stating that in l t five years the farmers of On- ve suffered an average loss or ' year, or of $150,000,000 In all, d values have decreased enor- MR. MARTER SPEAKS. The report of the Minister of Edu- cation for mm. which was laid on tho table this afternoon, opens' with a sum- mary of tho statistics for 1894. From these it appears that there were then 5.649 Public Schools, an increase of eight: 328 Human Catholic Separate Svhmns, an increase of fifteen, and ton Protestant Sepnmte Schnnls. besides: ll) kimh-rem'ents. with IM Numbers. and 25 night sr-hoover. with at teachers. The amount expendul in 1894 for Public HVlvrollttmsos, sites and buildings, was ."t':i7:',.4s".?.; for Public Selmnls teachers' salaries. $1725.36. and tor other pur- puses, $812,056. making: a total expendi- ture of 83.910314, an Increase of 3120.- mm. Tho estimated value of Public Su-hnnl trroprurty" is 310.599.439. There were 593x40 porsnns between the 31:03 of five and txn-utyone in the Province. and the number; of registered Public School pupils of all ages was 443,441. an increase of 440, while the average at- tendance was 245,006, an increase of 7.443. In the Roman Catholic Separate Schools there were 39,762 pupils enroll- ed, an increase of 1,695, and the aver- age attendance was 23,328, an increase of 1.465. The percentage of average attendance to total attendance was 56, an inl'roase of 2 per cent. The teach- I Mr. 'Marter--y prove it. I saw r Mr. Gibson-at I institution. it wa The statistics for secondary schools show 129 High Schools and Collegiate Institutes, with 55-1 tvttchers, an in- Crease of sixteen, and 23.523 pupils, an increase of 46R. For Inch School teach- ers' sniarivs $507,441 was paid; for st'hoo1houses, $49,160. and for other purposes 8132.931, making a total ex- pendituro of $688,532. The value of High School property is $1,702,620. In the report the Minlstey states. that. son-ml reforms in sanitation are neces- sary. The average age of the teach- ers is nuariy 25 years, and the averag" yvnrs of vxporience 43-5 years. Tho loss of time from illness did not exceed one day pa-r toachor, Progress in sanitation and hygiene is reported. only 490 twhoolhotttum being reported as furnishing inadequate breathing space for tho pupils in attendance. Better facilities for ventilation and heating are needed in many cases. The sta- tistics show that the number of pupils In the fourth and fifth forms is stead- ily increasing. and there is a gratify- ing increase in the number studyin'r history and geography and composi- tion, while there were In 1894 nearly $2. and the average salary of female teachers was $300. The schools were kept open on the average 208 days, and lngpectlon cost $90,610. 01's in the Public Schools numbered 8,110, of whom 2,662 were men and 5.443 women. The average salary paid to {male teachers ivas $421. a decrease ot Mr. Davis. rising, said tho stato- ment he had made was that tho hud- got showed a surplus of $5,000,000 or $6,- 000,000. but that he haa always boon careful to state that after certain lia- bilities, such as the railway annuities. which were not due. were capitalized and the liabilities were paid oft, the lmlnnce of between $2,000.000 and $3,- 000.000 would be the surplus. Mr. Manor at ttrst did not seem in- ciinnd to accept this explanation. and com-11mm? with a few more allusions to the absom'o of a. surplus. Mr. Davis again rose and made it clear that he had used tho same language on all occasions where ho had spoken during tho past [who or three years. saying that smn",'m;-s i113 remarks had not berm fully rnpurti-d. Mr. Mdrter' nr-mmtod the explana- tion, and the House adjourned at 6.20, 1 mt. VtmlrtrnHt was not a Toronto l institution. it was the Mimico Asylum. Mr. Marter--welt, my friend is ttrate- ful for small things. Continuing, he urged the buying of goods by tender in all departments. saying it would save many thousands of dollars. The Treasurer should not take credit for saving when the expenditure had linen less than the estimates. as it was egsy to make the estimates more than were .neoessary. When the tinilwt' of the Province was all gone and the Crown Lands all sold tho Province would have to resort to ("rm-t taxa- tion. When the Conservatives got in- to power, said he. they would have to face that difficulty. Continuing, he denied that there was a surplus. and critioized Mr. Davis' statement that there was. saying that that gen- tleman had represented the surplus to his constituents as amounting to Sumo $li,000,000. 5.649 I'uhnc eight: 328 It Schools. an in Protestant Flo; 1tiruhurgarents night trHtools :unnunt MID-n Schmdhnust-S, $373,432; for Public salaries. $2,725,286. tt. poses, $812,056, mnkir ture of $'R.010,fl24, an 0922. Tho "sttitv.ated Sl'honl property is EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS. "if-No. We did not. ' '--Yets, you did. I can may the papers.