Ontario Agricultural College epub The O. A. C. Review, Vol. 21: October, 1908 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The O. A. C. Review, Vol. 21: October, 1908But great as her efforts have been, Ontario's need of technical education is still peculiarly pressing. The existing financial stringency will expose her markets to the merciless competitionof her neighbor to the South, and this competition will test to the limit the skill of her artisans. Unskilled for eigners now flocking to her' urban centres will force her native workman up into the ranks of the skilled work men if they are trained to go there - or down into the ra'nks of the idle. Her pos1tion as the machine - shop and clear 1ng - house of the Great West will re main hers for the asking - and the de serving. Her raw materials Widely distributed and difficult of access, her motive power remote and unlimited, her transportation problems greater than those ever yet faced by so small a people,cry now and cry insistently for the captain of industry and the skilled artisan.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.