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Mr. Dye: Mr. Chairman, I move that a vote of thanks be extended 

 to these ladies who have, at great sacrifice of time and trouble, come 

 here tonight to address us. 



The motion of Mr. Dye was unanimously adopted by a rising vote. 



HOW TO ENLIST THE INTEREST OF THE BOYS IN AGRICULTURE 

 THROUGH THE HOME. 



Hon. John Dryden, minister of agriculture of Ontario, was introduced 

 by the president and spoke as follows: 



Mr. President and Fellow- Workers: My chief, Hon. Mr. Ross, was, I 

 believe, present with you last evening to welcome formally the institute 

 workers to the capital city of our Province, but I think you will not be 

 offended if I take the liberty of adding my own personal welcome. I 

 reciprocate the terms of personal friendship with which your president 

 has introduced me, for I value him as a personal friend. 



In extending a cordial welcome to the institute workers from the 

 United States who are co-operating with our own people in this associ- 

 ation, I recognize that unitedly, in the United States and Canada, you are 

 doing a very great work to uplift that calling which I especially repre- 

 sent, to which I have been attached all my life, and from which nothing 

 could entirely separate me. 



NEED OE ABLE MEN AS FARMERS. 



Now, in agriculture we want our best and most brilliant young men, 

 but we do not want any who are reluctant to ally themselves with this 

 work. We want them to attach themselves to agriculture from choice. 

 You will never find me undertaking to urge a young man to be a farmer 

 unless I see that he has some personal qualifications to fit him for the 

 business. If there is a lack of qualification he had better go into some 

 other business that fits him better. But there are numbers of our young 

 men who naturally belong with us. I believe that every man is born 

 with some natural gift, and it is a good thing if the parent or guardian 

 can discover early in the life of the child what his natural gifts are so 

 that he may be educated in the direction suited to his natural capacity, 

 to the end that he may be developed so that his future life will be of 

 greatest satisfaction to himself and of greatest usefulness to his fellows. 



A boy who is naturally enamored of ships, who is fond of the sea and 

 all that, will very likely make an excellent sea captain or navigator; 

 but I fancy he would make rather a poor farmer. My father always re- 

 gretted that he had not been allowed when a boy to go to sea, a calling 

 for which he had a natural fondness. He made a very good farmer, but 

 probably he would have made a much better sea captain. A boy who shows 

 early in life a passionate fondness for tools will very likely do best as a 

 mechanic or a manufacturer. Then you will find another boy who from 

 the beginning is fond of study, who likes to get down to the very bottom 



