June, 1921. 



SCIENTIFIC AGRICULTURE 



247 



Address by Lieut. -Governor of Manitoba 



\>i y cordially do we welcome j'ou at this Conveu- 

 tioii. Your orgaiiizatiou is to be complimented on the 

 rapidit\- and efficieuc-\' with which it has been organized, 

 and particularly are 30U to be congratulated on secur- 

 ing a journal in which you can publish your ideas and 

 your accomplishments, and thus place the objects of the 

 association before the people. 



I understand that one of your objects is to elevate 

 the status of scientific agriculture. "Scientific Agri- 

 culture'', as you know, is a phrase received by very many 

 l)ra<'ti<'al farmers with some derision and contempt. I 

 will not say that there is any foundation for that view- 

 point, but there is some cause for it. I remember when 

 I was a boy, in the county of Peel, that tlie agricultural 

 society offered a jirize for the best essa>- on good farm- 

 ing, and it was won by a man who was a jiarticularly 

 bad farmer. To that class belong a lot of loud-mouthed 

 propagandists who exploit agriculture for purposes of 

 advertisement. I know you men are interested in your 

 subject and your society. 



I am delighted to know that most of your members 

 are young men : you have an as.set that I have exhausted. 



Sir James Aikms, Itientenant-Govemor of Manitoba. 



\(m have the a.sset of time. You have years before yoi^ 

 Wisdom and cool calculation maj' be very desiralile in 

 mature years, but let me assure .vou that they will never 

 lift the load to the top of the hill, but vigor and youth 

 and entiiusiasm will do that. You have a desire for 

 better things, a desire to advance, and without that 

 there can be no real progress. 



You have enthusiasm — a spirit within you causing 

 you to move in the direction you are moving, and in this 

 enterprise .vou go into it heart first rather than head 

 first. Enthusiasm is necessary for tlie advancement of 

 your association. 



In addition to that you have an ideal. In order that 

 any nation ma.v be great it must have an ideal. It is 

 for you to realize your ideal. It is a dxTiamo of almost 

 unlimited power. And you have a purpose, which means 

 motion towards a pre-meditated end. The greater your 



enthusiasm the less liability there will be of deviation 

 and tlie sooner will you arrive at the accompiisnment 01 

 your purpose. A society with no detinite purpo.se is a 

 ■ ■ wobbler. 



Added to all tliese (juaiities you have persistency. 

 Almost all failure results from giving up or "quittin'^''. 



Your purpose is to improve tiie status of scientific 

 agriculture. To do tiiat you must popularize your mo- 

 vement; you must get i)ublic opinion behind you. And 

 you will be assisted in \our work by the fact' that most 

 of the people in this country possess a real knowledge 

 of farming. Your i)urpose will be made popular when 

 tlie people understand that the Society s object is to 

 cheapen the cost of production by the application of 

 science to agriculture. 



We are still only at the beginning of things. You are 

 going to pluck more fruit from the tree of knowledge, 

 and by applying your knowledge you are going to 

 greatly assist in advancing Canada's basic industry. And 

 it is mainly upon the development of our agricultural 

 indu.stry that this country will have to depend for the 

 payment of her tremendous war debt. 



There is one thing certain and that is that we must 

 work. With the smiple life of the country there must 

 be an abandonment of all things that tend to lessen 

 production. If our country becomes economical and we 

 employ the whole of our power to the greatest extent 

 IHissible, then our country cannot fail to prosper. 



EDITORIAL BOARD. 



Appointed at the 1921 Ccuvention of the Canadian 

 Society of Technical Agriculturists to assist the Editor 

 in reviewing articles submitted for publication and in 

 l>assing upon the merits of the same : and to also assist 

 in collecting articles suitable for publication. 



Members of the Editorial Board in each division will 

 i-etire each year in rotation, the retiring member being 

 eligible for re-appointment. 



Animal Ilusbuiid. i/. — II. 8. Arkell, H. Barton. 



Botany.— G. R. Bisby. J. E. Howitt. 



Economics. — A. Leitch, A. H. Benton. 



Genetics. — W. Loclihead, W. P. Thomp.son. 



Poultry Husbanclrij. — W. A. Brown, M. ('. Herner. 



Rural Enginee. ing. — J. M. Smith. 



Soils.— ^. S. Hopkins, F. W. Wyatt. 



Bacteriology. — F. C. Harrison, D. H. Jcnes. 



Dairying. — J. A. Ruddick, W. Sadler. 



Entomology. — W. H. Brittain, J. M. Swaine. 



Horticulture.— ¥. E. Buck. J. W. Crow. 



Sociology. — L.S. Klinck, J. B. RejTiolds. 



Veterinary Science. — J. S. Fulton, A. Savage. 



All manuscript submitted should be t.vpewritten and 

 jireferably submitted in duplicate. 



Whenever possible proofs will be submitted to author ; 

 they should be corrected immediately ujjon receipt and 

 returned to the Editor. Requests for separates should 

 be made when proof is returned. 



THE 1922 CONVENTION, 

 The Second Annual Convention of the Canadian So- 

 ciety of Technical Agriculturists will be held in Mon- 

 treal, and probably in -Tune. This was decided at the 

 recent convention in Winnipeg. 



