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¥° ® v t es era en of as of great value. es Mr. Bush asked for an explanation of the fact that $500 was given to the Eastern Poultry Association and $900 to the Western. He also objected to the fact that some of the prizes were given for fancy fowl not raised by 'the farmers. Mr. Dryden explained that the territory covered by the Western Association was larger than that of the Eastern. Mr. Haycock expressed the opinion that Mr. Bush had been loaded up the wrong way. He defended the bantam P*= fowl from the attack made upon it. de-- claring that the bantam produced as great a weight of eg@#s for the quantity of food consumed as any variety of fowl in the country. Bantams also served a useful purpose in interesting "the boys and keeping them on the | farm. He thought that the only ob-- i_i('r'tlnn to the grant was that it was | too small. |\ _ The Minister of Agriculture, replying | to OppositaX. eriticism of the Agricul~-- ture College and experimental farm, said that if there was any farm in Ontatio that paid it was the farm at Guelph. -- The information upon which the criticism had been based had not come from any student who had gone through the college. He would not undertake to defend the operations at Guelph ten or fifteen | years ago. At the present time the work was well and economically done, and the farm was paying as much as any farm could pay in this country. j Thousands of farmers had visited the| farm and college during the last few | years and they did not hesitate to--ex-- press their approbation of what they saw there. Mr. Dryden reminded the House that it was an educational in-- stitution and that extraordinary fin-- ancial results should not be expected. The students were satisfied that they were getting valuable information in every department. The boys were not \ only learning how to farm well but to farm economically. The instruction in every department was as good as it was possible to make it. Mr. Haycock paid a tribute to the success of the undertaking of the Gov-- [ernment to instruct the farmers in the art of spraying fruit trees. The experi-- ments in fruit--growing bad, he said, saved the people thousands of dollars. It was too much to expect an experi-- Imental farm to return a revenue. The Guelph farm returned a revenue of 45 per cent. of the expenditure, while the revenue of the Dominion farm at Ot-- ! tawa was less than 10 per cent. The discussion was continued until within half an hour of midnight, when the committee rose.