40 CANADA AND THE EMPIRE,

The Governments and the Farmers. — The
Dominion Government and the Provincial Governments
 have applied themselves to assisting the
farmer in conducting his industry in the most
scientific and profitable manner possible. The
efficiency of the Agricultural Departments, and
the practicality of their methods, must call for
the unstinted admiration of all who investigate
Canadian agriculture. The limits of such a work as
this forbid any detailed discussion on this interesting
 topic, but it is with difficulty we resist the
temptation. Whether it is in the administration of
the central department at Ottawa or in the experimental
 farms throughout the Dominion, whether it
is in the teaching of scientific agriculture, or in the
nature of the experiments conducted, or in the
methods adopted for conveying the results to
those who should profit by them, we find everywhere
 examples well worthy of imitation herel

progress of wheat culture in the United States or Canada,
no such land was found until the Red River of the north
was reached, and there, beyond what was supposed not
very long ago to be the extreme limit of profitable agriculture
 of any kind, has been found not only a climate
suitable to the production of wheat, but an inexhaustible
soil ; a combination of soil and climate that has given the
world its wheat of highest grade.”
t¢ Jast year, over 40.000 farmers received samples of

grain. . . .
“ During the past eight years, from 1895 to 1902, inclusive,
the number of samples distributed annually has averaged
36,684, and the total number sent out since the distribution
was begun in 1888, is 387,808, involving the use of over