The Progress of Dairy Farming' in Canada. 



By Prof. James Robertson, Commissioner of Agriculture for Canada. 

 Lieiivered at meeting of New York State Dairymen's Association at \\ alcrtown. 



I desire to congratulate the dairymen of the country on the 

 progress which has been made in the industry with which they 

 are connected. I offer my best wishes to the New York State 

 Dairymen's Association for still larger success than has followed 

 its efforts in the past These as we all know, have been character- 

 ized by intelligence, practical ability, and co-operation. 



There is room for both extension and improvement in every 

 sense in the dairy farming of Canada. At the beginning of the 

 nineteenth century there was not so many people in the United 

 States as there are in Canada at the opening of the twentieth. 

 There does not appear to be any good reason why the growth of 

 Canada in material wealth, population, and influence should not 

 be even greater during the next hundred years than it has been 

 in the great country to the south of us during the century which 

 has just closed. We have more power and resources at our com- 

 mand than were available to any of the peoples at the beginning 

 of the last century. We have still vast areas of unoccupied 

 fertile land, and as everybody admits, we have greater natural 

 resources, still largely undeveloped, than have ever before been 

 in the possession of a country of about 6,000,000 of people. 



Capacity of Canada foe Production. 



In Canada, the soil, the climate, and the intelligence and in- 

 dustry of the people are favorable for the production of a great 

 variety of food products of exceptionally fine qualities from farms, 

 gardens, orchards, and vineyards; and the extensive sea coasts, 

 vast lakes, rivers, and streams abound with the finest of fish. 

 From its geographical position, its railway systems and unsur- 

 passed steamship service for freight across the Atlantic, the export 

 trade in food products can be greatly extended with European 

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