. Ontario Sessional Papers, 1910, . he breeding of thoroughbredstock, m raising the best that the fields are able to produce, and in m various lines. It would be for the advancement of the best interestsol our civilization. 70 THE REPORT OF No. 43 I know that as a representative of this great Province you in your wis-dom, are more fullv cognizant of the facts than I am. I am simply goingto leave the matter in your hands, because you wanted us to be brief, i-ndI trust you will see your way clear to granting our request for an increasein our grant of $30,000, to enable us
. Ontario Sessional Papers, 1910, . he breeding of thoroughbredstock, m raising the best that the fields are able to produce, and in m various lines. It would be for the advancement of the best interestsol our civilization. 70 THE REPORT OF No. 43 I know that as a representative of this great Province you in your wis-dom, are more fullv cognizant of the facts than I am. I am simply goingto leave the matter in your hands, because you wanted us to be brief, i-ndI trust you will see your way clear to granting our request for an increasein our grant of $30,000, to enable us to go on and carry out to a greaterfruition the work of the various agricultural societies. Hon. J. S. DrrF : I mast thank you and the gentlemen who have beenassociated with you, for the able and eloquent manner in which vou haveset forth your argument in favor of the increased grant which you desireat the hands of the Government. I can assure you that your argumentswill be taken into consideration, but I would like to call attention to the. Barred Plymouth Kock Cock. fact, that as a result of your calling last year on the Minister there was anincrease of |7,000 in connection with three items—the Field Crop Competi-tion, Live vStock, and Seed Fairs. The results of this movement are suchas warrant the Government in making some further grant in that would call your attention to another fact: that while the |T0,000 have beenvoted as a grant for a great number of years to the agricultural societies,yet in other ways it has been increased until to-day I suppose you would besurprised if I told you that last year the expenditure on the part of the Gov-ernment in connection with fairs of different kinds^not the agricultural 1909 THE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES. 71 societies i)iire]y ami simply hut the fair; and exhibitions, all that comeswithin the range of your work—was not far from .S100,000. I was glad to hear the speakers say that the main idea was to use thistowards the
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