16 EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 



6-7 EDWARD VII., A. 1907 



same time, the exports of farm products have greatly increased. In wheat, flour^ 

 cheese, butter, pork, fat cattle, fruit and many other lines, the increases have been 

 enormous. 



With the rapid settlement of the large areas of rich lands now open to settlers 

 in all parts of the country, the food products available for home use and export will 

 rapidly increase in volume, and some of the wealth laid up in the soil will find its 

 way into commerce and enrich the community. There is no pursuit more noble than 

 that of the advanced agriculturist, who endeavours, by the exercise of skill, to improve 

 the condition of his fellow-men, and add to their happiness by making the earth to 

 yield bountifully and to produce food in larger quantity and of better quality, to sus- 

 tain the teeming millions now occupying the surface of our globe. 



