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_ . Agriculture Estimates. Before se/ggi',',,"',',",',',,,",',',' ("Mr- - '.' ' The House then went into Committee Stratton tttte e an nvitatlon to the t members to Visit the Central Prison at D ot Supply on the estimates for the De- 10 o'clock on Thursday morning Dartment of Agriculture. In the items . . it At night a short time was spent in for special (tents. Mr. Dryden ointed committee ot Supply when the esti- - out a reduction from 320.000 to $10900 . , , .. . 1 I' i . . mates in conncctiott with the Agricul- . ml administration of the San Jose " . . , i . tural college wet'e passed after the usu- l . scale act. and the omission ot any grant . . . . . al criticisms had been made by the Op- 4 . for instruction in fruit spraying, where iti d f ll m . b H . 82.5(waas given last Year. the depart- Io,'.' 3:332" success ll y e. Y. on. ment elievin the farmers to have now . . . .' , . é energetically tr taken the matter up the committee then lose and rooovted, t themselves. Increases of $500 were riyprre.qt'. ' ' 7 given the Cattle and sheepH3reeders' Spanish River Concession, i' Associations each. to encourage fat . r stock shows. t lion. Mr. Ross, in resuming the ad- journed debate on the motion to ratify , Improvement of Stock. the agreement with the Spanish River it Mr. Crawford (West Toronto) thought I Pulp Colllpuny. said the object of agree- . ' ' something should be done to encourage [ments of this kind was to promote_thel i better stock. Mr. Dryden replied that establishment ot a very valuable Indus-, !) . we were on the up-gradc now, and try and to further settlement in the i '", within five years there would be no unproductive parts of Ontario. Three I difficulty in getting good stock in the such agreements had been already , Province. Mr. Crawford repeated that unanimously ratified by the HOUSE. l V the best Canadian cattle had for years? namely, those Ifti' the esttiblighment of ', . taken as high a price in England as pulp works at Sault Ste. Marie, Nipigon i, any United States cattle. and' suggest- Luke and Sturgeon Falls. In the case I , I. ed that something should be done to ',ot ir."' ClerRitrs factory at Hault Ste. ' ' _- secure better transportation rates to ytyuy ¥2,UUU.U'K) had been invested and . the seaboard. MU hands were employed. Last year ' ' .' Mr. Mathewn (South Lanark) sug- Kiliimiini was expended in wages, f gested the striking out of the $2.60" and this year it would be twice that i item tot. the Western Dairy School. say- amount. Further. Mr. morgue pro- i, ling the attendance did not warrant its .DUBed to expend $3.0001i00 in building .. .muintennncc. but the item passed. Mr. u railway through a section of northern _ '3". Montelth (South Perth) argued in raw Ontario, for which he only asked " or of an increase to the $1,201) grant to nubyclltion of land, and to build at. a a the Ontario Experimental I'nlon. cost ot $1,500,000 works for the relin- ' " l, Mr. Duff (West Sinlcoe) criticized the inn of cUDpel' and nickel. Mr. Clergue "Pioneer Dairy Farm expenditures, had not yet fully indicated the extent ,whlch exceeded the receipts. Mr. Dry- of the industries he might guide and . . . " idcy pointed out that as a result of the direct. but was arranging within the lestabllshment of the tarm at Dryden a next few years to tnuke an outlay of > inrosperolls settlement had sprung up, from $14,00HJJUH to 1r'10,1roN)00 of 'and the attention 'of the world had been money. The energy Iliapl'dyed by Mr. I. ;directed to the farming wealth of the t'lrrguc and tho success which iw had ' Iregion. achieved showed him to be u. remark- ; Mr. Robson (East Middlesex) cmpha- able man. The next agreement enter- , 'sized the necessity of encouraging 300.1% cd into was for the development of an V . :slock by liberal grants to the fat stock) industry on Lulu- Niplgon. hut this had _ gshows. I fallen through. The third agreement l Mr. Kidd (Carleton) "lratqted that _"'as with the Sturgeon Falls Pulp Com- i . . (some of the Farmers' Institute lecturers him."- it called for the investment of 'x Iwerc- appointed for political reasons. a ;$!.i'il'l.ill0 and the production of 30.-l g: statement which Mr. Dryden omphati- 4"" tons of pulp annually. The rc-K 'r.",' lcally denied. Mr. Kidd went on to say ,sult of the bargain was that the popu-' i' that some of them were not properly) jlation of Sturgeon Falls had rapidly in-l 3.. 1fis)))..y'iill? in their work. Mr. Dryden' "teased, and setting were taking up ' . ' replied that his effort was to Bend out. cations on the adjoining land in order _ jg? inlen who were successful farmers, andl to take advantage of the market thus I his Home of them might not always he good Heated. The question was. should the " lspeakers. Government stop here '? Had anything I gtlilt . . " - occurred in connection . V Fi'?? ! Salaries at o. A. c. ( agreements to show that at12ta2eit. Fri", I in the estimates for the Ontario Agri-l blunder 1tud been committed "I The 97" cultural College. Mr. Matheson ob- , Premier answered these questions in the (rs' ircted to the items for assistants on the' nt'trutlve, and declared there had been "if? start. and said the professors had no) no failure of results. cxcept perhaps in l 'e more ability than the ordinary high tho case of the Nipigon company :4 school master. yet were paid rrotttr , . t,' "1,.300 to $1,800. Mr. Dryden said he Some Good Features. ' . could find a hundred men in the Pro-, The Government fir vlnce who could take the position of sumo that inasmuchmgs 'J'fl'"lL.do as- ' principal of a high school. where he vioua contracts were unanim l to pre- 3 could not find one who would be suit-l tied. the present bargain \ngft'i lat}- '. able for a Professorship in the college.; meet with unanimous ap r0811] also ', If we were to have an Agricultural (sol-I particularly as it was a bgtt , ' more 1. loge he wanted to have it proporiyi the Province than the others '"i/',tlhf,el' 1 l cquipped. Mr. Jcssop (Lincoln), all hardwoon were excluded f me und . thought the professors should be made, agreement, and the wood rom the to earn thelp mom-y by each leaching wPrc limited to Spruce S u; be cut [ two or three subjects, and that the jack pine. The first 5 rgop m and . 1t.,?d.ent" should my the" own doctor'sl with American JlG'ah"d'et"ldnts't'iart I . . 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