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has become interested in agriculture, looking on and 

 saying : " I should like to know how to produce them, 

 but your society does not give the information. I should 

 like to know what they mean by putting that animal first. 

 The other one looks better to me — but I can get no in- 

 formation. 11 The only way this young man could get the 

 information he seeks would be to attend the meeting of 

 the Farmers 1 Institute, where these matters are discussed. 

 The Farmers 1 Institute, therefore, supplements the agricul- 

 tural society, and the one ought to be dovetailed into the 

 other — that is, if you are endeavouring to reach the object 

 I have set up in my own mind as being the aim and desire 

 of every agricultural society. 



If, Mr. Dryden continued, they found that 

 in a certain section of the country improvement 

 was needed along a particular line, the exhibition 

 should try to improve the general production 

 in such district in the department in question, 

 offering prizes in these classes only, and announc- 

 ing lectures thereon in a building adjoining the 

 exhibition, so that the lecturers could have 

 before them, when they gave their information, 

 the animals which had been judged. In this 

 way the work of agricultural society and insti- 

 tute would be combined, and the farmer would 

 be helped to get out of the beaten track. 

 Mr. Dryden proceeded : — 



I think that our agricultural societies ought to have 

 definite purposes before them, and accomplish in that way 

 definite results for the best interests of our countrv. We 



