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should thus unify our methods and raise the standard of 

 production. The object to be attained will, of course, 

 vary in different districts. In one district it may be that 

 the fruit interest is paramount. Then let your attention 

 be turned in that direction. Or it may be that the people 

 want instruction in dairying. A deputation of dairymen 

 waited upon me this morning. They said there had never 

 been a time in the history of the country when the people 

 needed information on dairy subjects more than they do 

 just now. They are drifting away and becoming careless 

 in their methods. ... It is improvement in your methods 

 that will lead to better production all over the country. 



These remarks were made by a Canadian 

 for Canadians, but I commend them to the 

 consideration of agriculturists at home, with 

 this query : Are they not, in the main, just as 

 applicable to Great Britain as they are to the 

 Dominion of Canada ? And would not Farmers' 

 Institutes and Women's Institutes on the Cana- 

 dian model, with an improvement of the ordi- 

 nary agricultural societies to follow, be likely to 

 serve as useful a purpose on this side of the 

 Atlantic as on the other ? 



To show what is going on in the smaller 

 provinces as well, I should like to add a few 

 words concerning New Brunswick, which is the 

 largest of the three Maritime Provinces of the 

 Dominion, but lias an area no greater than that 

 of Scotland without the islands. 



