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AGRICULTURAL ORGANIZATION. 



Tin- fanners of Ontario arc actively organi/cd. exv-cpt in co- 

 ition. where mly lcginnings have been made. The dairymen. 

 -lockmen. hor-ebrceders. poultrymen, fruitgrower-. etc., have each 

 .1 -pcvial association. These associations arc under tlu- -uper\ i-i<m 

 of the < Mitario Department <>f Agriculture. and receive financial aid 

 from the < Mitario Legislature. Their object i^ the advancement of 

 their particular interests. Each a-s.,ciati"ii meet- in convention 

 annually, for the exchange of idea- and the discussion of important 

 <|ucstions. Reports of these conventions are i-Micd by the Depart- 

 ment for general di-trihution. 



The Ontario Agricultural and Experimental I ni<m. 



Tlii- sneieiy \va> organized in }X~<). and is an outgrowth of the 

 < ntario Agricultural College. It has a membership of fully five 

 thousand farmers. In common with various other agencies. ^iu li 

 as fanner-' associations, institutes and club-, experiment stations. 

 and agricultural classes in schools, the co-operative system of the 

 Experimental Union secures and impart- information; but. in addi- 

 tion. it enables the farmer to find out for himself, under the test 

 of definite plans, how things will work out on his own farm. As- 

 1 by the Agricultural College, whose experience is the basis of 

 methods and materials, the co-operative experimental work is under 

 the direct supervision of the Experimental Union. The most of 

 this work is conducted by the farmers themselves on their own 

 farms, in agriculture, horticulture, forestry, poultry-raising, bee- 

 keeping, and agricultural chemistry. 



In agriculture alone there are co-operative experiments on 4.500 

 farms, covering all the most important farm crops in the Province. 

 and dealing with varieties of crops, mixtures of grain- and 1:1,: 

 application of commercial fertilizers and farmyard manure-, and 

 quantity of seed per acre. Thi- means much in the advancement 

 of agriculture, each experiment being an object-lesson to the farmers 

 of the locality around the experimental plots, and the work bein- 

 the source of new *eed grains that yield much more than the older 

 varietir-. Different varieties of seed having been sent from the 

 College, the fanners report back as to how they develop, as to weight 

 in grain and straw, etc.. and thereby give information as to what is 

 done in the different parts of the Province. Over 60,000 experi- 

 ments in agriculture have been made since 1886. 



