REPORT OF THE AGRICULTURIST. 



(J as. W. Robertson.) 



To Wm. Saunders, Esq., 



Director, Dominion Experimental Farms, 

 Ottawa. 



Sir, — I have the honour to present reports on, (1) experiments in the feeding of 

 swine, (2) work in the experimental dairy and (3) the 40-acre lot. 



Experiments were begun in the fattening of two lots of steers on a ration of which 

 the bulky-fodder portion was mainly corn ensilage, to be compared with a ration of which 

 the bulky-fodder portion was mainly the Robertson Mixture ensilage, composed of Indian 

 corn, horse beans and sunflower heads. Feeding experiments along similar lines were 

 begun with milking cows. Enough information has not yet been obtained to warrant the 

 publication of any conclusions from these tests, which are still in progress. 



As in former years, my duties and opportunities as Dairy Commissioner received 

 the greatest part of my time and labour. Executive and commercial work in connec- 

 tion with the establishment and management of the Branch Experimental Dairy Stations 

 has taken me much from home. There were within the year 23 Dairy Stations and 2 

 Dairy Schools, besides 3 Travelling Dairies, under my charge. 



The supervision of the major part of the Agriculturist's work, viz., the grain and 

 root crops, was taken by yourself as heretofore. 



I am indebted to Mr. J ohn Fixter, farm foreman, Mr. R. R. Elliott, herdsman, and 

 Mr. Chr. Marker, butter-maker, for particularly painstaking assistance in the work 

 reported upon. 



I have the honour to be, sir, 



Your obedient servant, 



JAS. W. ROBERTSON, 



Agriculturist . 



