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and they in turn divided again, each pieCv^ to-day would have 

 been worth more than the whole, and our population largely 

 increased. Instead of that, men allow their sons to go to the 

 United States and their farms to goto bush or deteriorate and 

 becoooe waste land. I ask the young men of the present day 

 to look upon agriculture as a profession worthy of their best 

 efforts, and if they take hold of it with that energy and perse- 

 verance that merchants and manufacturers require to put into 

 their business in order to compete with the keen rivalries 

 of the age, they will succeed. 



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