Legislative A isembly well spent, because in all probability they will remain in this Province and become useful citizens, raise their families here, and we will no doubt be dependent of them for the future development and prosperity of this Province, I, therefore, will firmly support any new move that our Government may make to encourage young farmers to establish in this Province, and I also will urge them to carry out the best possible program of agricultural education. It is a well known fact that in this day of advanced agriculture and agri¬ cultural methods, a successful farmer must not only have an excellent knowledge of how to till, how to feed, and seed his soil, how to spray and .harvest his crops; he must also be a good mechanic and an astute business man. He must have a pro¬ found liking for his way of life, or he will not stay on the farm. I believe, that for any person who possesses all these qualities, there is no vocation, or any place in life where a family may live and derive such a degree of satisfaction from their work and endeavour. Our most successful farmers are people who make farming not only a way of earning a living, but also a hobby and the main pleasure of their life. Now, Mr. Speaker , if I may depart from Provincial affairs for a few minutes. I would like to say a few words with regard to our relations with Ottawa. You may recall a few years ago, we heard so much about the great deal we were getting from then Prime Minister, John Diefenbaker , and all the Conservative supporters were talking about the outstretched hand of John Diefenbaker and his great generosity to this Province. I well recall a night, two or three years ago, in this House when the Honourable M. Lome Bonnell , becoming, like many others, com¬ pletely fed up with this story, rose in this House and gave figures taken from the Official Reports of the House of Commons at Ottawa, which indicated that the New Government at Ottawa under the leadership of The Honourable Lester B. Pearson had exceeded the generosity of Mr. Diefenbaker 's Government to the extent of over four million dollars during the previous fiscal year. Mr. Speaker , I will recall the Leader of the Government of that day, very meekly getting to his feet and asking Honourable M. Lome Bonnell to repeat these figures so that he might take them down on paper, for checking I presume. Now, these figures must have proven to be correct as they were never contradicted by the Premier of the day or any Member of the Provincial Government of that time. Now this favourable position continued to be our lot for the next one and a half or two years, in spite of the fact that Mr. Pearson 's Government was dealing with the Party of the Opposition. Once again may I refer to the outstretched hand of John Diefenbaker , which turned out to be an empty boast, because that out¬ stretched hand proved to have nothing in it. I am reminded of the promises made by the Diefenbaker Government to help this Island and other Maritime in the setting up of A.D.B . program. Now, I am not denying that the A.D.B . program was a good idea, but it costs money, and it proved to be like the outstretched hand, it remained for the new Liberal Government under Mr. Pearson to give this great organization one hundred and fifty million dollars to get rolling, and I believe this is where the money came from, or a high percentage of it, to build our present high- stand, all weather Trans , to which our Provincial Government of the day made a small contribution, but tried to take credit for the entire project. When the Liberal Party in this province was compaigning for election a little less than a year ago, they promised even better treatment from Ottawa if they were elected. Now, this seemed almost too much to hope for, but the Leader of our Party promised and insisted that we would get better treatment, and no doubt it helped to elect him, he and his Party. So, Mr. Speaker , I was indeed proud and happy when the announcement came forth some time ago that under the new fiscal agreement with Ottawa, we would receive an extra five million dollars plus a Federal Fund this year. Now five million dollars is a lot of extra money to get, especially to a Province with a population of around a hundred and ten thousand people. It means nearly $50.00 per capita extra money going into our treasury. Now, with our Treasury managed by a capable, shrewd, careful man like the Honourable T. Earle Hickey , I know the people of this Province can depend on getting the very best possible value for every dollar that is spent. —268—