CHAPTER XX 

 CANADA 



IN the twenty-eighth annual report, for the 

 year ending December 31st, 1902, of the 

 Ontario Agricultural College and Experimental 

 Farm, the President, Mr. James Mills, writes : — 



The condition and prospects of agriculturists in this 

 country are improving. The farmers of Ontario, not to 

 speak of the other provinces of the Dominion, are in a much 

 better position now than they were fifteen or sixteen years 

 ago. They are on a higher plane of intelligence ; they dress 

 better and live better ; they are getting a larger share of 

 the necessaries and comforts of life for their labour; and 

 as a class they stand higher socially than they did in the 

 years gone by. Many agencies have been contributing to 

 these gratifying results — the public and High Schools all 

 over the province, the Agricultural College, the Dairy 

 Schools, Travelling Dairies, Farmers 1 Institutes, Women's 

 Institutes, Live-Stock, Dairy, and Poultry Associations, 

 Entomological Society, and Fruit Growers' Association, 

 Winter Fairs, other great fairs, provincial sales of live- 

 stock, and the annual distribution by the Minister of 

 Agriculture to all members of Farmers 1 Institutes through- 

 out the province of free copies of all reports and bulletins 

 issued by the Department of Agriculture, the Agricultural 



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