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great tide of emigration setting so steadily westward 1 would be 

 diverted advantageously to her shores, where the heavy price paid 

 for material prosperity by pioneers of former generations in raw- 

 ness and discomfort of life is no longer exacted ; where the right 

 class of men can find a fitting and profitable sphere for their activities 

 amid comfortable and well-ordered surroundings ; where the lead- 

 ing problems confronting a new country such as education and 

 transportation are happily settled. 



The free rural schools and high schools, the technical college, the 

 agricultural college, the Government educational institutions of the 

 model orchard, the model travelling dairy, and the experimental farm, 

 all these practically free and splendidly equipped institutions offer 

 their advantages to all who will embrace them. To quote Howard A. 

 Kennedy, author of New Canada : ' Probably no other branch of 

 Government activity has conferred such immense and direct benefits 

 on the population of any country as the experimental farm system 

 of Canada. Experiments are constantly being made by men of 

 the highest skill to discover, and even to produce, such varieties 

 of plant life as can be grown with the greatest success and the 

 highest profit in all the various climates and soils with which Canadian 

 farmers have to grapple. Not only is the information thus obtained 

 put freely at the disposal of every farmer in the Dominion, but the 

 seeds and plants raised and tested at the experimental farms can 

 be obtained by any farmer who is willing regularly to report the 

 results he gets from them.' 



In concluding this chapter it may be said as a final word that the 

 many favourable conditions for manufacturing that exist to-day 

 in Nova Scotia furnish an opportunity to the enterprising capitalist 

 which can readily be demonstrated, but which has seldom been 

 stated with sufficient emphasis. 



1 The total emigration to Canada for the year 1907 exceeded a quarter 

 of a million. 



