Abstract

At the conclusion of the reading of the Annual Report the Hon'ble Mr. Barber, delivered the following Presidential Address. The Director of Agriculture, in asking me to preside at this Conference, has done me a great honour, and moreover I feel that he is honouring the community to which I belong. I own that I felt some diffidence in accepting, but when the Director said:- "Just to show there is some connection between planting and agriculture," well, I felt I had to come. Of course I had to ponder on those words of the Director's, and I wondered if they had some hidden meaning. The conclusion I have arrived at is, that the Director has asked me to be here to-day that I may help to prove, in some small way, the sympathy which must and does exist all the world over among men engaged in agriculture, a sym- pathy which covers every climate, creed and colour. You know. how one rejoices to see good crops.

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