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At no time in the history of the department, stated the Minister, has there been such a period of consul-- tation between department officials and heads of the various live stock, ,grain, fruit and vegetable growers' associations, with the aim of reach-- ing the core of agricultural prob-- lems. Fighting Live Stock Scourges. Improvement in swine is being encouraged in order that Ontario bacon may compete in the top world markets. Experiments are being conducted for the first time in the Province on the nutritional values of live stock foods. In a speech that was devoid of} the _ experim histrionic flourishes, the Minister| farms unless -- enumerated points which were to| taken back to | receive the department's direct at--| clared the dep tention. -- Starting-- with live stock.lgremer backi he said greater efforts were being| courses, organi made to stamp out tuberculosis and| the district as Bang's disease in cattle, and that| tatives. laboratory research is being intensl-, At the outsé fied in an effort to exert greater he welcomed measures of control on the latter T. L. Kennedy affliction, along with certain para--) ister of Agricu sitic ailments which attacked cattle| Administration. and swine. New -- seed--treating plants -- and soil--testing stations are being es-- tablished. Farmers, he said, are fully awakened to the importance of soil--testing, and are making in-- creasing demands upon department facilities. Would Improve Cheese Standard. Another aim, said Mr. Dewan, . was to reduce the quantity of low--| quality cheese, and he revealed Mr. Dewan revealed that the plan had the backing and co--operation of Premier Hepburn, but explained that anything that was done would be along the line "of helping those who wanted to help themselves " Expansion of the Ontario Depart-- ment of Agriculture's program teo assist in the marketing of farm products was announced yesterday as a Government policy by Hon. P M. Dewan, Minister of Agriculture, in a budget debate speech in the Legislature. SEEK BETTER PRODUCTS Agriculture Minister Tells House of Plan to Spur Farm Effort DEWAN PLANS MARKETING EXPANSION At the outset, Mr. Dewan said he welcomed the co--operation of T. L Kennedy (Cons., Peel), Min-- ister of Agriculture in the Henry that Ontario cheese, last year, had slipped in quality, He attributed this loss to the number of small cheese factories, whose output did not warrant the employment of a top--ranking cheesemaker. Improve-- ment in education and in the quality of milk is being sought through the co--operation of the cheesemakers' organization. Aitention is being directed to the tobacco--growing industry, which last year produced a crop valued at $16,000,000, only slightly in excess of the value of the cheese produce. A further effort is being directed toward bringing the quality of Ontario potatoes to a competing level with the best grown, said Mr. Dewan. He suggested that vege-- table growers had been neglected somewhat in the past. Finally, the Minister emphasized. it was folly to spend money on the experimental agricultural farms unless the knowledge was taken back to the land, and he de-- clared the department would give greater -- backing to extension courses, organized largely through the district agricultural represen-- tatives. March 30