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and is sometimes called “The Million Acre Farm.” In length it extends 145 miles. 3Its greatest width is 45 miles, and the narrowest portion three and one-half miles. We have a population of about 88,000 peOple, just about the size of an ordinary city such as you have in the west; but let me tell you that in 1914 we sent to France 5,000 of the flower of our youth, and today 500 sleep in Flanders’ Fields. One third of our military force were casualties. That was our contribution to the Great War and we are

proud of it. “I want to say this about our Province, that you will

have the opportunity of seeing, notwithstanding that your visit is so very short, a very fine, happy, prosperous and contented people. You will see very fine homes, with every reasonable comfort,—radios and automobiles. We have no great wealth, we have no millionaires, but happier still, we have no extreme poverty. We also feel that in this Province we have very many things to be thankful for. We have as you will doubtless see, many schools; I believe somewhere in the vicinity of 540 schools, and we have a free educational system. We also have very many churches, of which we are very proud indeed.

“Our basic industries are agriculture and fishing. About 85% of our people engage in agriculture. We believe we have the real ‘Denmark’ of Canada in agriculture. When I say that, I want to modify it to this extent,—we are known in the first place as a ‘Disease Free Area’ in regard to bovine tuberculosis, so that when you drink our milk and‘ cream you are drinking a disease free product. I be- lieve this Province leads the rest of Canada in grading and co-operative marketing, because we have pe0ple coming from the other Provinces to ascertain our methods. I know you will pardon me when I say this, that in con- nection with our dairy products, we have been able to