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Night Hawk June 7, fairly common S.R. 



14, rare S.R. 



14, " S.R. 



14, ' S.R. 



16, very rare S.R. 



16, fairly common S.R. 



15, rare.' S.R. 



18, " S.R. 



20, " S.R. 



20, common R. 



20, fairly common R. 



Cuckoo. 



Great Horned Owl 



Scarlet Tanager 



Indigo Bunting 



Chestnut-sided Warbler.. 

 Black-capped Warbler. . . 

 Blackburnian Warbler.. . 



Parula Warbler 



Barred Owl 



Hairy Woodpecker. 



Owing to rather limited time the foregoing observations are 

 very incomplete, neither do they indicate the exact arrival of 

 the birds. Abbreviations used: P.M., passing migrant; S.R., 

 summer resident ; R., rcvsident. 



(1) Have observed only 2 cases of breeding here. 



(2) Some years are quite numerous. 



(3) Breeds on Lakes St. Francis, Magog and Aylmer. 



SVALOF SEED FARM. 



By Geo. H. Clark, Seed Commissioner. 



Svalof is the name of a railway station in the south of 

 Sweden. There is scarcely a village there, but there is a hotel 

 that would do credit to most of our Canadian towns. A 5,000 

 acre seed farm at Svalof forms an attraction to agriculturists, 

 not only from Europe, but from all over the world. There is 

 where Nilsson has worked for 20 years. He is now 54 years of 

 age and is reaping some of the fruits of his labors in the pleasure 

 of having people from all over the world come to Svalof to study 

 his methods. 



There is also an agricultural high school at Sx^alof which 

 would compare favorably, in building and equipments, with the 

 best high schools in the smaller towns throughout Canada. 

 There are 46 of these schools of agriculture distributed through- 

 out Sweden, in a way so that they are conveniently available 

 to the farming population of Sweden, which cultivates an area 

 in all not exceeding 9,000,000 acres of land. Because of these 

 schools of agriculture, the average intelligence of the Swedish 

 farmers is perhaps superior to that of most other countries, and 

 the Swedish farmers make good use of the results of the work 

 done by their experimenters. 



The 5,000 acre seed farm at Svalof is officered by a scientific 

 staff of five experts and their assistants, who have a splendid 



