Tuesday, April 25, 1967 make mention also of the part played by the Swift Canadian Company, and the Hali¬ fax Co-operative Abattoir during the time of the Canada Packers strike. We did not have any lessening or ceasing in the marketing of our products at that time. In fact we hardly knew that the Canada Packers plant was closed. Those people exerted their efforts and everybody worked harder, put on extra trucks, and managed to keep our livestock moving from the province. Also, Mr. Speaker , I would like to pay tribute to those two companies in this respect and at that time we did not get any decrease in price, which to my mind was very important, and is something which I think we should consider. Those people kept the price up; in fact, price of cattle at that time was a little bit higher than it had been previous to the strike. They could have very well said, "Well here is our chance, we will drop the price of pork, we will drop the price of cattle." But they didn't do that. Now with regard to the Causeway; I have a note here on Borden, and following up the remarks of my honourable friend on my left with regard to Borden, I want to back him up in what he said. This Government should be prepared to make extended efforts along this line and look into the prospects of future development at Borden, so that when the time comes when the Causeway is built, those people who are work¬ ing with the Borden Ferries there at the present time — practically 50% of the popul¬ ation I suppose of Borden is concerned in working on the Borden Ferries — something will be set up there, some new industries. I feel the Government should take this as one of the number one projects to see to it that the people of this area are prepared and some new industries be provided to take over whenever the Causeway is built. Now with regard to agriculture, I would like to make just a few remarks, pass¬ ing remarks, and I want to congratulate my honourable friend on the splendid job ne is doing in the Department of Agriculture. Mr. Speaker , he has the most important portfolio in this province. (Applause) I agree with the remarks he made the other day in the House that, as the farmers prosper, so do the rest of the people of the Island. Agriculture is our basic industry, and one to which we look in solving the financial economy of our province. I feel that in agriculture today the most important thing that we should be considering is research. I am happy to say that we have at the Experimental Farm the research program which is carried on for the Maritime situated at the Dominion Experimental Farm, and I understand the men we have employed there are the top men in Canada . They are doing work in re¬ search of production, they are finding out ways and means of producing, and also in disease control. But I think, Mr. Speaker , while this is very good, and we are happy to know that we have it on Prince Edward Island , we also should be going a little step farther. We should be carrying on demonstrations, we should have a demonstra¬ tion farm in this province so that when new things come out in agriculture somebody will be able to take this out to the farmers in a way such that they can see it for themselves. Now I know our Extension Department in Agriculture are responsible for doing this and I must congratulate them I think they are doing a very good job, but they are doing it on small plots. My idea would be, Mr. Speaker , to consider the use of Falconwood Farm; this farm as we all know, has been showing a deficit for year after, year after year. My idea was that, if, through the support of the Domin¬ ion Government, we could persuade them to give us some money, or part of the money and make the Falconwood Farm a demonstration Farm so not by having small plots we could see large fields of corn, large fields of new kinds of grain and so on. People could go there and we could have demonstrations on new machinery — well there is no end to what we couldn't have. I think, Mr. Speaker , we should be thinking along those lines and also we have had some feeding demonstrations set up in the past. I feel that that could be carried on also at this Demonstration Farm for we could have cattle there. Now on Sunday, on the agricultural program on TV, one thing in par¬ ticular I noticed was that they had a demonstration on bulls. Thirteen bulls, or some¬ thing bke that, and there was one bull that showed thirty-three point something gain per day. He was at the top and all others were down between two and three. But those are the things that the farmers should know so that when we are buying breeding stock we would want to buy the very best and in this way I feel, Mr. Speaker , it would be a great step forward in agriculture in this province. I think there is also a need, and I am pleased that the government of this prov- ice has carried out some of the suggestions that I made in the House in former years, low one, as you all know I have been promoting for years and suggesting in my speeches, is that we should have a qualified potato expert We are going to have that. and I am very happy about that because I feel that if had we had this man in the —827—