YEAR BOOK 47 
     
    
   
   
    
     Education. Mr. W. R. Reek B. S. A., was appointed Director 
     
     of Agricultural Instruction in Prince Edward Island. and he ex- 
     
     ercises his functions in connection with the Provincial Department 
     
     of Agriculture, of which the Hon. Murdoch McKinnon is Commis- 
     
     sioner, and with the Provincial Board of Education. District 
     
     Representatives were also appointed, viz.,—Mr. W. j. Reid, B. 
     
     S. A., for Prince County, and Mr. Leslie Tennant, B. S. A., for 
     
     King's County. 
     
    

    
     Early in the year, the Provincial Board of Education issued a 
     
     circular to teachers as follows : 
     
    
   
   
    
     NATURE STUDY AND ELEMENTARY AGRICULTURE 
     
    
   
   
    
     To encourage the teaching of these subjects a bonus of 
     
     $10.00 will be paid to any teacher having a school garden properly 
     
     used in the instruction of the pupils and having also five pupils un- 
     
     dertaking Home Projects in five different homes. One dollar ad- 
     
     ditional will be paid the teacher for each additional home in which 
     
     a Home Project is being properly conducted. This bonus is pay- 
     
     able in August. Teachers must therefore make arrangements for 
     
     the care of gardens and plots through july. 
     
    
   
   
    
     A school garden shall have one or more flower plots, one or 
     
     more plots of garden vegetables and one or more plots of field 
     
     crops. These plots must be cared for all through the summer. 
     
     Where there is no school garden or where it fails to come up to 
     
     the required standard, Home Projects must be carefully conducted 
     
     in ten homes to entitle the teacher to a bonus provided, however, 
     
     that in small schools where the pupils over seven years of age 
     
     come from fewer than ten homes teachers may receive a part of 
     
     the bonus proportionate to the number of Home Projects organized 
     
     even though that number be less than ten. 
     
    
   
   
    
     A Home Project is any one of the following enterprises man- 
     
     aged and conducted at home by pupils of the school or by children 
     
     of school age residing in the district, and made educationally use- 
     
     ful in the school. 
     
    
   
   
    
     (a) A plot of ground well cultivated and well cared for sim- 
     
     ilar to any of the plots in the school garden and containing any 
     
     kind of flowers, grains, fruits or vegetables. 
     
    

    
     (b) The growing and selecting of farm seeds. 
     
    

    
     (0) The gathering, naming and mounting of fifteen kinds of 
     
     weeds, and knowing the best means of eradicating them. 
     
    

    
     ((1) The collecting, recognizing and naming of ten kinds of 
     
     weed seeds. 
     
    

    
     (e) Any live stock or poultry work.