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     in many cases applied. Three additional school inspectors, com- 
     
     petent for the work, were appointed, not only to examine classes 
     
     in the branches of education ordinarily taught in the public schools, 
     
     but also to inspect school gardens and to give instruction in the 
     
     elements of Agriculture. 
     
    
   
   
    
     At the Short Courses practical instruction was given to large 
     
     classes in animal husbandry, grain growing, poultry management, 
     
     milk testing and dairying, horticultures, etc., and in the Long 
     
     Course the students were instructed in the judging of beef 
     
     cattle and heavy horses, in swine and sheep husbandry, in field 
     
     work and poultry management; also in English, arithmetic, and 
     
     book-keeping. 
     
    

    
     Seed Fairs were held at Charlottetown, Georgetown, Sum- 
     
     merside, Murray River, and Souris. There was also a Poultry 
     
     Show held at Summerside under the auspices of the P. E. Island 
     
     Poultry Association. Agricultural Exhibitions were held at Souris 
     
     and Alberton in addition to the Provincial Exhibition, and County 
     
     Exhibitions held at Charlottetown, Georgetown and Summerside. 
     
    
   
   
    
     FARMERS' INSTITUTES 
     
    
   
   
    
     By an act of the Legislature passed in 1901 authority was 
     
     given for the formation of two Farmer's Institutes in each elector- 
     
     al district. In 1906 this was amended to five in a district, but not 
     
     to exceed fifty in the Province. By amendments in 1912 this was 
     
     amended to permit of sixty Institutes being formed in the whole 
     
     Province. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The minimum membership for a farmers’ institute is thirty. 
     
     On the payment of fifteen dollars in fees a grant of twenty dollars 
     
     is paid by the Department of Agriculture. Five dollars of the 
     
     amount is spent by the Department to defray the expenses of agri- 
     
     cultural meetings. A special grant, not to exceed thirty dollars, 
     
     may be obtained by each Institute annually for the purchase of 
     
     pure bred live stock, on condition that an equal sum is raised by 
     
     the members of the Institute for this purpose. Seventy- five per 
     
     cent of such special grant and money collected from the members 
     
     must be applied within a year to the purchase of pure bred stock. 
     
     The Secretary of Agriculture is Superintendent of Institutes. 
     
    
   
   
    
     CENTRAL INSTITUTE 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Central Farmers’ Institute was organized in 1911, with 
     
     Rev. Dr. Gauthier, President, and Mr. Walter Simpson, Secretary.