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By the efficacy of such a system the prosperity
of farmers is greatly enhanced, and the more the
farmers avail themselves of its assistance the more
remote becomes the possibility of exhaustion of
soil, and failure from frost.
So we find that Canadian agriculture is a profitable
 industry, favoured by Nature, and nurtured by
governments, offering attraction to the pioneer and
profit to the industrious settler, who is not slow to
accept his chance. The more closely we studied it
the less necessary did any form of Imperial assistance
 seem, and the less necessary, the less appreciated
 will it be. We cannot expect to reap a large
reward for gilding this agricultural gold, or to
purchase much loyalty, if loyalty is in truth a
purchasable commodity, by a small present to
the prosperous.

the total number of letters received at the central experimental
 farm was 27,664, so that the year has made a good
beginning in that way. A large number of these are applications
 for grain, but a very large number, also, are letters
asking advice in regard to the treatment of crops and what
shall be done at this or that particular juncture. Before
the recent rains came, we were getting letters asking what
kind of late crops the farmers could grow to advantage to
furnish food for their cattle in the autumn. Suggestions
on many different topics are asked for and responded to,
and thus a constant stream of information is going out
from these farms to farmers, helping them in their endeavours
 to turn their crops to the best advantage and to make
their work more profitable. The number of reports and
bulletins sent out each year for the past six years has
averaged 216,034." —Evidence of Professor Saunders.