STATE DAIRY ASSOCIATION. 611 



I bring you greeting from "Our Lady of the Sunshine," incorrectly 

 named "Our Lady of the Snows." by one of the minor poets. Cajiadians 

 are interested in the welfare and prosperity of the United States. We are 

 not, however, interested to such an extent that we should be willing to 

 lose our identity and help to form "One government for all of North 

 America," as was suggested by one of the speakers at a banquet preced- 

 ing this session. The only terms on which Canada is likelj' to join hands 

 with the United States is a fusion of all the English speaking people of 

 the world, on some honorable and satisfactory basis for all parties. There 

 was a time when Canadians were anxious for reciprocity on almost any 

 terms. Now the offer of reciprocity must come from our American 

 cousins. AVe have done all that any nation can honorably do in the 

 matter. 



However, we can and do have reciprocity of ideas. No men are more 

 welcome at our dairy and agricultural meetings that ex-Governor Hoard, 

 C. P. Goodrich, John Gould and other Americans. We are glad to get 

 information and ideas from them. Many Canadians also go to American 

 sources for helpful suggestions. This is as it should be. 



In Canada we have in our Northwest Territories 238.000.000 acres, of 

 which 135.000,000 acres are good farm land, and only 3,000.000 acres of 

 these are at present occupied. We have abundance of room for your 

 surplus population, and many of these are now flocking into Canada, In 

 3902, there was produced in our Northwest 102,500.000 bushels of grain, of 

 which 50,000,000 bushels were wheat. Of this amount 42 per cent, of it 

 grades No. 1 hard. 



To come more particularly to the dairy industry, allow me to say 

 that our exports of cheese for the present j^ear are expected to reach a 

 value of $30.000.000— or about five dollars for each head of our popula- 

 tion. In addition, we shall probably export between five and six million 

 dollars' worth of butter for each head of our population. All this is in 

 addition to supplying our own people with cheese and butter. 



A calculation has been made that it would require 150 trains of 40 

 cars each, which would be SV/j miles in length, to move our cheese to 

 market this year. 



Besides cheese and butter we export products closely allied to the 

 dairy industry as folloM's: Cattle, $11,343,000; eggs, $1.50<).0(X); bacon, 

 $15.5(X).000; hams. $500,000; canned moat. $.500,000. Our total exports for 

 all products was in round numbers $214,500,000 for the fiscal year ending 

 June, 1903. 



ORIGIN AXD GROWTH. 



The dairy industry liegan in earnest in Canada about ISC.T. .\t that 

 time we were importing cheese for home consumption. Creameries were 

 unheard of. The butter was made in farm dairies and was of Indifferent 



