. Busyman's Magazine, July-December 1907. he had studied the situation as awhole; he persuaded all concerned toa long pull, a strong pull and a pullaltogether. Soon Canadian farmers,dairymen, railroad managers, andsteamship owners joined hands to de-velop a trade which grew fast tostupendous proportions. Backedthroughout by the Dominion Treasury,the dairy exports which in 1890 were of Canada invites the settler as Min-nesota and the Dakotas did a gener-ation ago. At a bound this influx hasopened a new era in the Dominion,and thoroughly aroused her farmersto the gifts proffered by the neweducat
. Busyman's Magazine, July-December 1907. he had studied the situation as awhole; he persuaded all concerned toa long pull, a strong pull and a pullaltogether. Soon Canadian farmers,dairymen, railroad managers, andsteamship owners joined hands to de-velop a trade which grew fast tostupendous proportions. Backedthroughout by the Dominion Treasury,the dairy exports which in 1890 were of Canada invites the settler as Min-nesota and the Dakotas did a gener-ation ago. At a bound this influx hasopened a new era in the Dominion,and thoroughly aroused her farmersto the gifts proffered by the neweducation. While Robertson journeyed fromhis home in Ottawa to Prince EdwardIsland, thence stage by stage to Brit-ish Columbia and back again, he stead-ily gained experience as an educator,but of adults solely. Would it not bewell, he thought, to give lessons togirls and boys, who, after all, are some-what more plastic and teachable thantheir parents? In 1899, accordingly,he addressed himself to Young Can-ada : he had seen the profit in scien-. A New Dairy School, St. Hyacinthe, Que. but $9,700,000 rose, in 1900, to $25,-000,000, and in 1906 reached $31,500,-000. The man who chiefly wrought thisgreat result had a national helm in hishands. In 1890 Robertson was appoin-ted Commissioner of Dairying for theDominion, so that the good practice ofOntario might extend to her sisterprovinces. In 1895 he was given theadditional post of Commissioner ofAgriculture for the Dominion. Loyal-ly did he discharge his trusts. Fromocean to ocean he lifted farming anddairying to new excellence, until hisambition to see their methods at thehighest level seems fast approachingfulfilment. And his hour is areas for the plow in the UnitedStates are too few for national needs,and the scarcely broached wheat-belt tific dairying, he knew that equal gainawaited the twin pursuit of farmingthrough sowing selected seed. Heoffered $100 in prizes to girls and boyswho would send him the largest headsfrom
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