Transactions of The Royal Society of Canada 
SECTION III 

See hl JUNE 1916 Vox 

PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS 
Agricultural Education and Research in Canada 
BY PRANK LC. SAUTT, MA, DiSe 
Dominion Chemist 
(Delivered May 17th, 1916.) 
For the purpose of this address our subject may be discussed 
under three headings: The Status of Agriculture in Canada, The 
Value of Science in Agriculture, and the Improvement of the Practice 
of Agriculture in Canada through Education, Demonstration and 
Research. 
The Status of Agriculture in Canada 
In order that we may properly appreciate the importance of 
research in agriculture in this country it is first necessary that we should 
understand the position of agriculture among the industries of the 
Dominion. 
It is not too much to say that agriculture is Canada’s basic and 
most valuable industry, the industry above all others for which the 
country as a whole is best adapted, the industry employing the most 
men and that creates more wealth annually than all our other industries 
put together. It has been the pioneer occupation of our people and 
it will remain, I believe, the staple business of our people. Upon its 
economic development and progress depends in a very large measure 
the welfare and prosperity of our national life. 
To those whose lives and work are cast among the varied and 
important activities of one of our larger centres, these statements 
regarding the status and importance of agriculture may appear some- 
what strange and perhaps overdrawn, but I am confident that they 
will, in the main, be confirmed by those who have studied the life 
and work of the Dominion as a whole and its natural resources, and 
more especially by those who know Canada by actual travel. It is 
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