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tion, through business co-operation, through all the rela- 

 tions of agriculture to other industries and to legisla- 

 tion. 



Dr. George H. Clark, Dominion Seed Commissioner, 

 emphasizes the condition we have just pointed out, as 

 one cause which accounts for the lack of market for 

 products intrinsically good : the absence of standards of 

 uniformity in shipment. " The Ontario potato crop 

 is a badly mixed crop. Were the commercial potatoes 

 that are marketed in Toronto offered in England, Lon- 

 don's poor would have an opportunity to buy cheap 

 potatoes. Any good cook will tell you that she gets 

 poor results if she boils long white, round white, and 

 rose types together."* The same condition and a simi- 

 lar failure are found to apply to the marketing of other 

 products. Successful millers must establish and main- 

 tain definite uniform brands of flour. Ontario millers 

 find that they can combine 60 per cent, of Ontario wheat 

 and 40 per cent, of Western wheat with the finest re- 

 sults, yet many of our largest milling concerns are not 

 in the market to buy Ontario wheat, because they find 

 it impossible to get two carloads that will give the same 

 result. Three years ago the Dominion Government- 

 advanced 400,000 bushels of seed oats to farmers in the 

 West, owing to the failure of ripened seed in the previ- 

 ous autumn. Ontario had a large supply of good com- 

 mercial oats to offer ; all were rejected by the Seed Com- 

 missioner because obtainable only in mixed varieties 

 and types. The whole amount was secured in Scotland 

 without difficulty, all true to the Abundance type. Mr. 

 Clark asks the farmers of Canada to look at our whear, 



*G. H. Clark, 12th Annual Report, Ontario Agricultural 

 Societies, p. 26. 



