Sessional Papers - Legislature of the Province of Ontario Volume 9 (Paperback)


This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...necessity for a forward movement in technical training, with the object of imparting a greater amount of practical skill in many kinds of handicraft that may be undertaken and easily taught without any elaborate or expensive equipment to carry on the work. The object should not be to turn out skilled mechanics in any of the trades, as this would be entirely beyond the scope of what could be successfully undertaken; but the aim should be to ive practice to the hands, in such rudimentary arts as may be expected to win over to their pursuit those of the boys having an aptitude for them, and by this way introduce them to the particular calling by which they may best succeed in life. The Farm Buildings Amd Grounds. There has been Borne improvement in the cultivation and productiveness of the farm, but the limit of possibilities in this direction is far from having been reached. There is no lack of desire to further improve the work and management of the farm, and being assured of the existence of the ambition, the good results hoped for may be assumed as certain to follow. The buildings as well as grounds are well cared for, and everything in and about them is most cleanly and unnecessary to say, sanitary. When the farm shall have been brought to display the same amount of care and attention as have been bestowed upon the garden and ornamental grounds, the general management will deserve to be considered a trely model one. Fuel Supply. The fuel supply up to the end of the present year has been almost entirely of wood, but the price having recently advanced more than one dollar per cord and difficult to obtain even at the advance, it became necessary as well as more economical to use coal as the fuel for the fature. The full effect of this change to coal will not...

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...necessity for a forward movement in technical training, with the object of imparting a greater amount of practical skill in many kinds of handicraft that may be undertaken and easily taught without any elaborate or expensive equipment to carry on the work. The object should not be to turn out skilled mechanics in any of the trades, as this would be entirely beyond the scope of what could be successfully undertaken; but the aim should be to ive practice to the hands, in such rudimentary arts as may be expected to win over to their pursuit those of the boys having an aptitude for them, and by this way introduce them to the particular calling by which they may best succeed in life. The Farm Buildings Amd Grounds. There has been Borne improvement in the cultivation and productiveness of the farm, but the limit of possibilities in this direction is far from having been reached. There is no lack of desire to further improve the work and management of the farm, and being assured of the existence of the ambition, the good results hoped for may be assumed as certain to follow. The buildings as well as grounds are well cared for, and everything in and about them is most cleanly and unnecessary to say, sanitary. When the farm shall have been brought to display the same amount of care and attention as have been bestowed upon the garden and ornamental grounds, the general management will deserve to be considered a trely model one. Fuel Supply. The fuel supply up to the end of the present year has been almost entirely of wood, but the price having recently advanced more than one dollar per cord and difficult to obtain even at the advance, it became necessary as well as more economical to use coal as the fuel for the fature. The full effect of this change to coal will not...

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March 2012

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March 2012

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246 x 189 x 7mm (L x W x T)

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Paperback - Trade

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136

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978-1-130-09705-4

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9781130097054

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1-130-09705-6



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