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The conditions that prevailed in connection with crop growing 

 and stock raising were duplicated in the fruit growing and other 

 agricultural industries and with as unsatisfactory results. People 

 did the best they could, as they did not understand the better way 

 that is now so evident everywhere. Agricultural education in Canada 

 was in its infancy and the demand for it was even less strong. These, 

 in a general way, were the conditions that prevailed in the older 

 provinces of the Dominion in the early eighties. These were the days 

 of the exodus of the young manhood of Canada to the United States. 



Looking towards the city in 1912. 



Because it had been difficult to make a comfortable livelihood on the 

 farm upon which they were raised, thousands of the sturdy sons of 

 Canadian farmers moved over the international boundary and helped 

 materially in the prosperity of the great Republic. 



Agriculture in the Prairie Provinces had not yet become estab- 

 lished. It was known that there existed a limited area of good farming 

 land, but it was commencing to be realized that the methods of 

 farming in the older provinces would not answer on the prairies. 

 Summer drought, early fall frosts, an open, windswept prairie brought 

 problems that had to, be faced and solved to bring crop growing within 

 the range of reasonable certainty. In these new provinces, the need 

 of experimental work w r as apparent in a striking degree. It seemed as 

 though the success of the country depended on it. It was not 

 surprising, therefore, that the Government of the day was stirred up 



