76 EXPERIMENTAL FARMS. 



CIRCULAR LETTERS SENT. 



The larger part of these are instructions sent with samples of seed-grain, 



tree seeds, &c. , distributed 29,695 



Number of reports and bulletins mailed 141,537 



ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. 



I desire on this occasion again to express my obligations to all the officers of the 

 several Experimental Farms for their diligence and cordial co-operation in can*ying out 

 the measures which have been planned in connection with their several departments 

 and for the earnest interest they have taken in the successful prosecution of their sev- 

 eral branches of work. Where all have done so well special acknowledgments may 

 seem unnecessary. A personal acknowledgment is, however, specially due to .those 

 members of the staff, who have so ably aided me in those sections of the work of which 

 from the beginning I have assumed the personal charge ; also for the assistance I have 

 received in carrying on portions of the agricultural work, specially arranged for with 

 the agriculturist. To Mr. John Fixter, the farm foreman, to Mr. W. T. Macoun, the 

 foreman in forestry, who has also acted as my assistant in the experimental field 

 work, to Mr. W. T. Ellis, who has had charge of the seed testing and propagating 

 houses, and to Mr. J. Kirkpatrick, who has carried on the work of seed distribution, 

 my grateful thanks are due for the assiduous care they have shown in carrying out 

 these several divisions of the work, and in collecting and preserving the data which 

 forms the basis of much of the information presented in this respect. 



WM. SAUNDERS, 

 Director, Dominion Experimental Farms. 



