112 KUEAL LIFE IN CANADA 



There must be adaptation of farm practice, along all 

 lines, to scientific methods of production. What does 

 not the world owe to men such as Lord Townshend, to 

 whom is attributed the famous Norfolk four-year rota- 

 tion of crops; Robert Bakewell, who in England in 

 the eighteenth century adopted the methods by which 

 all breeds of live stock have since been improved; Sir 

 J. B. Lawes, of Rothamsted, who taught men to under- 

 stand the soil; and Luther Burbank, of Santa Rosa, 

 who has raised the development of vegetable life to a 

 new plane ! Similar work is being done most success- 

 fully in Canada. The technicists of the Dominion 

 Experimental Farms " have given the farmers of the 

 West control over the climate to the extent of escaping 

 frosts in great measure by means of varieties of wheat 

 which will ripen days earlier than was formerly the 

 case." The technicists of the Ontario Agricultural 

 College have given to the world a barley which yields 

 on the average some four bushels to the acre more than 

 any other variety before grown. At Macdonald Col- 

 lege at Ste. Anne de Bellevue, Quebec — the Agricul- 

 tural Department of McGill University — experimental 

 and educational work is being carried on over a square 

 mile of farm land, which is the equal of any being done 

 in the world. From these sources and from many others, 

 through our Farmers' Institutes and other organizations, 

 we obtain every needed help for a great forward move- 

 ment. President Butterfield, of the Agricultural Col- 

 lege of Massachusetts, generously acknowledges our 

 standing : " Ontario presents a good illustration of how 

 a good agriculture can be created in a dozen years, by 

 co-operating methods of agricultural education. Her 

 provincial department of agriculture, her experimental 



