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to turn natural advantages to account.' Individual energy and 

 initiative applied to agriculture in Nova Scotia to-day cannot fail 

 of the same success which these qualities are earning in commercial 

 enterprise. 



* We have thousands of happy homes ' (again to quote Premier 

 Murray) ' among the agricultural classes of this country, just as 

 happy farming homes as you will find under the flag of any country 

 in the world. We can, in my judgment, in almost every section of 

 this province, where we use intelligence and industry, support a 

 happy and contented population upon our agricultural lands. But 

 agriculture, while it means everything to the West, and great as 

 it may be in Nova Scotia, does not by any means measure the 

 resources of Nova Scotia. It is not enough to-day to be a nation 

 or province of one industry to take a proper place in the affairs of 

 the world. The strong feature of any country is in having a great 

 variety of resources, and in our variety of resources lies the great 

 strength of our province.' 1 



The abundance of coal and iron and other metals suggests that 

 these elements may eventually do for Nova Scotia what they have 

 done for England ; suggest naturally the export of these in the 

 form of implements, tools, machinery even steel ships and other 

 finished products. This in turn involves a larger field for the 

 products of the farm. 



Were the immense potentialities of Nova Scotia fully understood, 

 which it is safe to assert are rarely surpassed within any spot on 

 the globe of the same area, there is little doubt that a jet of that 



1 The following table shows that the value of Nova Scotian products 

 for the year 1907 amounted to nearly $107,000,000, which is a sum equiva- 

 lent to an average of $1,000 (^200) for each family in the province : 



Coal $13,875,000 



Coke. ........ 1,925,000 



Gold. ........ 265,000 



Gypsum, Limestone and other Minerals . . 975,000 

 Stone and Building Material .... 310,000 



Pig Iron . . . . . . . . 1,385,000 



Steel. ........ 4,100,000 



Steel Rails, Rods, etc. ..... 8,150,000 



Fisheries ........ 9,200,000 



Manufactures, Ships and Freights . . . 39,800,000 



Products of the Farm 23,500,000 



Products of the Forest ..... 3,750,000 



Total .... $107,235,000 



These figures obviously point to no mean degree of prosperity, and yet 

 most of the great natural resources of Nova Scotia are only in the intitial 

 stage of their development. 



