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Walter R. Shaw: Now is there anything else you want to know about farmers?

Hon. Alexander R. Campbell: “7811, just want to...

1)iix’altelr R. Shaw: You go in and ask the Corporation in here, they are working out e p an.

Hon. Alexander B. Campbell: You have been telling us we are closing down the family farm, and I just wonder which one it is?

Walter R. Shaw: The average size of a farm in this Province I suppose at the present time is about 120 acres.

Hon. Alexander B. Campbell: What is it? Frank Myers: I would say 150 acres. Hon. Alexander B. Campbell: Now you said a medium-sized farm was 150.

Walter R. Shaw: Well take your average-sized farm if you wish. Hon. Alexander B. Campbell: Medium farm or the average farm?

Walter R. Shaw: Now work that out from your statistics.

Hon. Alexander B. Campbell: All right. Now what’s a family farm? Walter R. Shaw: That’s the same.

Hon. Alexander B. Campbell. A family farm is a medium farm. Walter R. Shaw: The family farm is usually a medium sized farm. Ilon. Alexander B. Campbell: Usually?

Walter R. Shaw: And as a matter of fact the family farm may range down to a very small farm.

Hon. Alexander B. Campbell: Don’t you find a family on almost every farm?

Walter R. Shaw: Why of course you do. How the devil would you expect to operate a farm if you didn’t have someone on it?

Hon. Alexander B. Campbell: What difference does it make what size it is?

Walter R. Shaw: Well of course it does. Now you want to brighten up, my dear Premier, because I am afraid you are very much in the dark in this regard, as well as a great many other things.

Hon. Alexander B. Campbell: Carry on, Sir; a fine speech!

Walter R. Shaw: Now I understand the Legislature is not to be told the intimate details of this strange document, and may I say again, in case there is any mis- understanding, that this is no reflection upon this Corporation. Now these may be the greatest fellows you could find from one end of Canada to the other. I wouldn’t know one of them if they came in the door. They never came to me to ask me any information, although I have been in agriculture for quite a long time in this province, and I think I know something about the plans that might be necessary to develop an agricultural plan. But they don’t do that, they go off by themselves.

Hon. Alexander B. Campbell: Across the hall.

\Valter R. Shaw: We haven’t one agriculturist from Prince Edward Island on that group in there. Not one, and that is what I take objection to, and I feel that if we had some of our own men in on that we would have a diversity of opinions, we would have the cross-section and the value of men who have been associated with agricul- ture in this country for many years.

Now I would like to say, too, that the plan being considered is of long:term character — something the same applies to New Brunswick and Nova Scotia -——- there’s has been going on in the desk stage for two years, and I don’t think there

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