EQUIPPING THE EMIGRANT

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2153, 20 May 1914, Page 2

EQUIPPING THE EMIGRANT

An interesting experiment to equip men and women for life in the overseas Dominions (particularly Canada) is being tried by the Hon. Rupert Guinness, M.l\, and Lady Gwendoline Guinness, at the Emigration Training Farm,' which Mr. Guinness had established three ■years ago at Yvoking (England). Here —at Woking Park Farm —young men ■with a secondary school education are received as pupils, and are taught farming as much as passible under Canadian 'Conditions. Tho manager, Mr. Heurtley, is himself an Englishman who has graduated, at Ontario Agricultural College, and bas had eiglit years' practical expedience of Canadian farming.' He has,-therefore, been through experiences yery_similar to those which await tho. English educated immigrant, and is in a [msitirm to help his fellow-countrymen to avoid preliminary difficulties, Already a considerable number of young | men have passed through this farm training school, and are doing well in Canada. Mr/Guinness not only enables tho pupils' -to be trained in all'the chief branches, of farming work on bis 700acro farm, but lie has bought a farm in Eastern Canada, where he.can after employment for a time to selected pupils, who can later pass oil to take work | elsewhere. , j

Tile, success attending tliis farn-i school has cnoottragod , Mr,, and'. XadyG wc«t del«n/ Guinness -to offer .women also a training that may. smooth tlie roagh places of colonial Jjfo for them.' This project- is quite new, and tho Ovirsods Training-School for f Wosien at Hoebridjie Fftrai, Woking,- is flnly iiow being made ready for its fiitnro The mipcrintondent, MisS-.K'. C, woldio. has spent fill hor life in Canada, mid is a meraher of ' a family who liavo besen Canadians for several generations. A jxradu•Ato 'ol the celebrated Matifonald' Instituto of domestic S6.ienc6 ai'Gneipli, On*, tario, ?.ho knows all about domestic matters, both ik theory and practice, and lias Jiatl .eonsifterabi© oxpericneo of household manngement; •

The training .is primarily, domestic, beteurso whatever .a woman might undertake 'in, tho 'Dominion, sooner -of later the need -of catering for herself aiul others would bo felt,- .There would, accordingly,' be no servants. ■'

. Primarily, then, the pupils are to lio tavighti- to do for theittselves, and more especially in all that' concerns indoor work, swiili . as cooking, laundry work, brcadJiaking, bnttor-mskiiig, fruit preserving and bottling, etc. The codkinsc of Canadian*dishes will be a specinlity: But there will also bis faeilitie.'j for those who wisli to study poultry work, .milking, .and some of' tlie various departments of dairy and farmyard vsork which, oftcm fall to the lot of women. The training is styled the "Short Course for Hoiiip-mnkers Overseas," and Wire ides which throughout lias lieen .present to tho founders of the .school is to enable women to go cut to the Dominions and make a comfortable jtome for husband, father, or brother; or to tako work on their own account, or in a Canadian or Australian family..