ant position. I ask for his influence to help us to establish a silo in every 

 parish where no silo exists at present. 



Grood advice has frequently great effect, and does a great deal more 

 than any amount of offered prizes. 



Were each member to devote himself seriously to this end, and push 

 ahead one of the wealthiest of the farmers in each place, we should succeed 

 indisputably in implanting the practice of ensilage over the whole province. 



To encourage this practice we intend, this year, to grant a prize of ^20 

 to the farmer who shall build a silo in a parish where there is none at 

 present. There are, I believe, a thousand parishes in the province. We 

 should have as many siloes as a commencement. The same prizes cannot 

 be offered every year, but this year, I hope, we shall have to pay the greatest 

 amount possible. 



There is not one member who cannot promise us to devote himself to 

 this task during one day in each parish. Every member follows, doubt- 

 less, the laudable custom of presenting himself before the electors after 

 every session to render an account of his stewardship ; the best speech he 

 can make to them, after having justified his parliamentary conduct, is one 

 explaining the real value of the silo. 



FARM-SCHOOLS. 



Secondly, I ask the members to send a pupil from every parish to the 

 farm schools. We ought to have a thousand pupils next year. With the 

 aid of the zealous cures and the chief inhabitants, this result can be obtained. 



I spoke of the cures. They it is who can and who will be of the great- 

 est assistance to us. We heard yesterday about the great work done by 

 them in the country, what they have done for the higher education, for the 

 diffusion and the progress of classical studies. They it is who have built 

 the colleges and peopled them with students. 



Now, we do not ask them to make such extensive sacrifices. Our farm 

 schools are nearly ready ; it is only the pupils that are wanting, and they 

 must be found. 



What steps were taken to develop this state of the higher education, 

 the advantages of which are nowadays so highly valued that even the 

 poorer farmers deprive themselves of everything, so to speak, that they 

 may send a son to college ? 



How often has not the cure sent his protege to college ? More than 

 one has even had the merit of sending a dozen or more scholars of his par- 

 ish at his own expense ; and among them have sometimes been men who 



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