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output of Ontario farms has actually been doubled in about fif- 

 teen years. We find that it has created great interest all over 

 the province; it has filled our College of Agriculture to overflow- 

 ing. We had 1,000 students last year connected with the College. 

 During the summer, we have in the month of June from thirty 

 to thirty-five thousand farmers visit our experimental grounds — 

 two hundred to three thousand every day from the 5th to the end 

 of June. I am stating actual facts, and not saying this boastfully. 

 They are interested in this work because they are conducting ex- 

 periments on their own farms and they want to see the same ex- 

 periments carried on on a larger scale. They come in groups of 

 five and six and seven hundred. We take them out into the fields. 

 We ask and answer questions, we keep moving over the experi- 

 mental fields, talking about the different experiments, and after 

 they have spent a full day, they return to their homes at night. 



I believe that you have here an organization of the ex-students 

 of this institution. If you could work through that organization, 

 and through the experiment station, you can bring about results 

 of this kind throughout the state, and I believe you would find 

 that it would pay and pay well and have a very wholesome influence. 

 When we started in the work, we did not know how it would turn 

 out ; but we kept up the work until now we have between seven and 

 eight thousand experimenters altogether. It is having a wonderful 

 influence all over the Province of Ontario, not only giving us in- 

 creased yields per acre, but also increasing the interest in agricul- 

 ture, creating a greater love for agriculture and a higher education, 

 and a greater development of the profession. 



