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■use vegetable food mainly, wliieli the islands produce in great abundance. In Germany 

 the rate of wages is about 50 cents for men and 3Ti cents for >vomen, a large number 

 of whom work in the fields and factories in that country. One wouldn't expect women 

 in this country to go to work in the fields, but in going through Fj'unce T saw about as 

 many women working in the fields as men. We could perhaps get over this difficulty 

 partly by using improved machinery, but such improved implements would soon find 

 their way into the hands of our competitors when their advantages were known. 



The CiiAiRMAX. — I think it will be better perhaps to adjourn now and defer fur- 

 ther information for another meeting. 



A. If you will permit me, I would like to finish my remarks with reference to the 

 yields of the diilerent varieties of farm crops, as I had nearly completed this part of 

 my evidence. 



By Mr. Cochrane : 



Q. Before you go on to that, will you tell me whether you have taken any action 

 to find out whether those roots that produced such a large crop by sowing early are 

 fully equal in quality to roots sown later ? 



A. We have not submitted these to a chemical analysis, but from a casual exam- 

 ination they appear to be a little more stringy or woody, but practically in our feed- 

 ing experiments we have not found any material difference. 



By Mr. Bichardson : 



Q. What is likely to be the effect on the beet sugar industry in this country of the 

 prospective reduction of the sugar bounties in Europe ? 



A. That might be beneficial. Great Britain, as I understand it, from the very 

 brietf notice we have received by cable, contemplates taking such action as will be 

 equivalent to a bountj' of one-halfpenny per pound on West Indian sugar, which will, 

 if carried out, no'doubt give a great stimulus to the production of sugar in the West 

 Indian islands, where the industry has been almost ruined by the competition of the 

 bounty-fed sugar produced from the beet in Europe. If that is correct, work on the 

 sugar plantations is likely to be resumed. Should this bring about any protective 

 movement in Canada in favour of West Indian sugar, that might also favour homo 

 grown sugar and thus assist the beet sugar industry here. 



Q. So that the whole tendency of this action might be to advance the industry 

 here ? 



A. I think that is probable as far as one can judge from the limited information 

 available. 



By Mr. .Johnston (CardweJl) : 



Q. Do you find any difference between the effects of the fly and turnip lice upon 

 early and late sown turnips ? 



A. We have not found the date of sowing to make much difference in this respect. 

 We are not much subject in this district to the turnip fly ; where this insect is preva- 

 lent it would probably injure the earlier sown roots more than those later sown. As to 

 the attacks of the turnip lice, I do not think the time of sowing would have any influ- 

 ence on the injuries caused by that insect. 



Q. What I meant was that when the hot weather comes, the earlier sown turnips 

 Beem to be afFected by the flies and grubs and lice, while the later sown ones are not so 

 much injured by them ? 



A. We have not found any material difference in that respect in Ottawa. 



