Identifier: n09ontariosessional42ontauoft (find matches)
Title: Ontario Sessional Papers, 1910, No.39-43
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: ONTARIO. LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY
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Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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per cent above the market price. Lastyear there were raised 100,000,000 bushels of oats which sold at from thirty-five to fifty cents a bushel. Xow many of the prize winners in these standingfield crop competitions received from 81.25 to $2.50 per bushel for their oats.If we can succeed in increasing the value but ten cents per bushel it wouldadd §10,000,000. to the amount received annually for the oat crops alone bythe agriculturists of Ontario, not to speak of the increased amount producedper acre by careful selection of seed grain and improved methods of cultivat-ion. The work that is being done in this connection for the farmers is notonly meeting with your approval but with that of the Government, and I amconfident that we shall be successful in getting an increased grant aga nthis year for the furthering of a work that is having such beneficial resultsto all concerned. I doubt whether in all the years Government grants madeto Agricultural Societies have proved more profitable.
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o « ;i4) 1909 THE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES. 15 In connection with these Field Crop Competitions, we had an auction saleof the grain exhibited at Guelph and Ottawa from the prize winning fieldswhich was not successful in the grain competitions at the Winter Fairs. Thisgrain was sold at 90 per cent over the market price and the amounts realizedreturned to the exhibitors. The number of seed fairs last year was largelyincreased. In order to extend the work of the Field Crop Competitions, atmy suggestion, the Directors of the Canadian National Exhibition haveagreed to offer substantial prizes for a sheaf exhibit from the winning fieldsof the Province this fall. In order that all the different sections of Ontajiomight compete on equitable terms, the Province will be divided into threesections. East, Central, and West. These sheaf exhibits will be retained by

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