PRACTICAL TALK TO FARMERS. 



It affords me a great deal of pleasure to make my first offi- 

 cial visit in this part of the province, and yet I assure you it 

 is not without some embarrassment, following as I do as Secre- 

 tary for Ai^riculture, so eminent a man as the late Professor 

 Lawson. He was an agriculturist by birth, education and 

 practice, and he grew up with, or rather advanced agriculture 

 grew with him, for a period extending over nearly 30 years. 

 He was a scholar and a gentleman, and all who had the pleasure 

 of his acquaintance knew the value of his agricultural know- 

 ledge. If I can, only in a measure, give that general satisfac- 

 tion, I shall have accomplished much. I have been impressed 

 for a long time with the fact th«t if this country is to be made 

 a country worth living in, it is by prosecuting her great agri- 

 cultural pursuits, while we have the advantage of a greater 

 variety of magnificent natural resources than any other 

 province in the Dominion. We have great wealth in our mines 

 and minerals and our forests and fisheries, but our agricultural 

 resources 



ARE MORE VALUABLE THAN THEM ALL. 



Take the marvellous growth of the fruit industry in the 

 Annapolis Valley, so called, the valley extending between 



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