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station, her agricultural college, her various forms of 

 extension work, and her various societies of agricul- 

 turists have all worked together with an unusual degree 

 of harmony for the deliberate purpose of inducing 

 Canadian agriculturists to produce the things that will 

 bring the most profit. The results have been most 

 astonishing and most gratifying/'* To read such 

 words may bring a glow of satisfaction. But let not 

 the satisfaction obscure for us the force of the wise 

 words. Agriculturists need to be induced to produce 

 the things that will bring most profit. Again we meet 

 with the ethical implication of the economic remedy. 

 Duty is laid upon the progressive man and unprogres- 

 sive alike. How shall we gain what Denmark has 

 found? Xo farmer to-day in Denmark feels that he 

 me his duty, if he has discovered a better method 

 of raising a crop or feeding a cow, until he gets all 

 hers to ;> '"pt the same method. How shall otlu-r> 

 realize that " agriculture is for the gaining of crops, 

 and the gaining of the best crops from a constantly 

 improving soil depends upon the capacity and quality 

 of the men " ? Whence the " statesmanship in agri- 

 culture which shall ensure the perpetual well-being of 

 an intelligent people animated by goodwill and rooted 

 in land well tilled and beautiful ( That, I think, might 

 be to us a vision, as it should be an incentive to h^lp in 

 the making of the new earth wherein dwelleth righteous- 

 ness.'^ 



And there must come adaptation of farm manage- 

 ment to the most improved methods of modern business. 

 A Spencerville farmer was transformed from a routine 



* K. L. Butterfield, " Chapters in Rural Progress," p. 190. 

 f Dr. J. W. Robertson, Commission of Conservation, I, p. 59. 



