AGRICULTURE IN CANADA.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12396, 17 December 1909, Page 3

AGRICULTURE IN CANADA.

At the anniversary meeting of -the Agricultural Experimental Union, the president, speaking of the position of agriculture in the colony, said:—ln the raco for wealth there seems to he a craze for large farms, many thinking this means more money. This may be true for a year or two, but in the'end is a failure. Farming is degenerating. Our forefathers were better farmers than we are. We seem to have caught tho Western idea, and are trying ta mine our land instead of farm it.

. . . The old countries can teach us many lessons. They practise intensive farming-, and if we wish to occupy the proud position of leaders in agriculture, we must siniply take the losson and fall in lino with intensive farming. .. ■. The introduction of fertilisers is a uroblem we shall have to face. They will be commonly used in Ontario before 10 years have passed, and (referring to the part that electricity is destined to take in tho agricultural industry) he said the past year proves the part that electricity is destined to play on the farm in the near future. The harnessing of Niagara Falls and tho> transmission of power to agricultural operations seems likely within the next ten years, arid this new method will carry great changes with it. The tapping of radial electric railway lines for power to run stationary farm machinery is said to be nn accomplished fact in several of the States. It seems to me that farmers should be looking into this new enterprise and show claims as good as any for cheap power. We also gladly note the new fertiliser, lime nitrogen, that no doubt will work wonders in the future agriculture of Canada.. The clay has arrived even in this new country when special fertilisers have & place, and, liko the older lands, we too must feed our crops.