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Institutes and Agriculture The Hon. W. A. Stewart, Ontario Minister of the Department of Agriculture and Food congratulated the women on what the Insti- tutes have done to lift the standard of living in the province, on their influence on both home and community life and on their pro- vision of scholarships, both for post-high-school education for Ontario girls and in the Freeâ€" dom from Hunger crusade, He paid a compli- ment to their work with Tweedsmuir Histories. recording local history so important that the Department of Education is recognizing the hooks in the teaching of history in schools. He thanked the Institutes for their part in supâ€" porting and promoting 4-H Homemaking Clubs for girls and had a special word of apprecia- tion for homekeeping women and their in- fluence on “the way youngsters think and act and develop a sense of responsibility and a response to discipline." He spoke too of the part many farm women are taking in farm management. especially in the keeping of farm accounts, “Our farm income has not kept pace with the cost of things the farmer has to buy." the Minister said. “which is one reason why the Department is interested in farm accountâ€" ing.“ The Minister suggested that women could be of special help in urging care in the use of pesticides. Modern agriculture cannot be car- ried on without pesticides so we have a res- ponsibility to study directions and to exercise care in using them. Along the same line, the farm wife can do a great deal for safety on the farm by bringing to the attention of her husband and family the need of care in han‘ dling machinery and livestock. Mr. Stewart spoke of the steadily growing need of education. Threeâ€"fourths of the young people on Ontario farrns, he said. must be eduâ€" cated for off-the-farm jobs. The Universities and the technical schools would attract many of these. And the Department of Agriculture, along with its agricultural schools at Kempt- ville and Ridgetown will provide a school for northern Ontario young people on the Experi- mental Farm at New Liskeard. Across the highway from Guelph University the De- partment will build an Agricultural Complex. including an auditorium for Women‘s Institutes and other organizations (because the University will have new demands on Memorial Hall); and there will be dormitories and class rooms for agricultural diploma course stu- dents. Also the Department is introducing a pilot project at Kemptville, to train inexperiâ€" enced young people for work on farms and to give short courses to retrain farm people in new farming techniques and farm management. 12 The women appreciated the Minister's rcpt“. of government response to two Women‘s h. stitute resolutions: first the government's rej.. tion of an effort to 10wcr the age for If l drinking; second, replying to a resolution ;... ing that something be done to get more dem (and doctors?) to serve in rural areas, ‘1 Minister reported that plans are Llndcrr to provide two more schools of dcnlixltn Ontario. and that bursaries are offered to r er dental or medical students who will com to serve for a definite time in a rural are“ Mr. Stewart paid tributes to several \w for their contribution in public life: Agnes Phail and Mrs. Ada Pritchard. Madam \U and others but he still declared his belief the thousands of homemakers and molho this country have an influence lhai L‘.: be duplicated by anyone else. Home Ectmomics Extension Service Introducing a symposium of SpECiflilkl the Home Economics Branch staff. the I'I tor. Miss Helen McKercher said that edin for adults is changing just as fast as CdULt in the secondary schools. Through Iht forts of Adelaide Hoodlcss. as far hm. 1903. Macdonald Institute was opened hut women needed education in homemakin first teachers from Macdonald lnStitulc gone out. occasionally Io lecture and ill; strate to Women's Institutes. Later the u- asked for courses of a series of lesson this was the beginning of the first itin- demonstrationdeclure courses in Foodx. ing and Home Nursing. Since then DL mental services have changed with the cl: ing needs of the homemaker. “We “til meet your needs." Miss McKercher said. we don't want to give services that are n Dr. W. A. (Padre) Young as song leader. No ‘ "” the communin singing sessions were so PDPUEO' HOME AND cell RY