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SUMMARY. 



Total Expenditure for Experimental Farms, 1890-91, 



Maintenance account — 



Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa 



Experimental Farm for Maritime Provinces, Najjpan, N.S 



do Manitoba, Brandon. . 



do North-West Territories, Indian Head 



do British Columbia, Agassiz 



Capital account — 



Erection of dairy building and piggery at Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, 



Paid for land, Experimental Farm, Indian Head . . 



Land account, Experimental Farm, Nappan, N.S., legal expenses and surveys. 

 do do Agassiz, B . C . . 



$ cts. 



11,928 11 



In the sum charged to the Central Experimental Farm in the foregoing sum- 

 mary, many items are included which should be shared, to some extent, by each of 

 the other farms. The amount paid for the salaries of the chief officers who devote 

 a large part of their time to the branch farms and to the interests of farmers resid- 

 ing in the provinces where these farms are located, should be divided between the 

 Central and other experimental farms. The following accounts should also be ap- 

 portioned in a similar manner. Printing and stationery, office help for the distribu- 

 tion of bulletins and for conducting the correspondence with farmers all over the 

 Dominion; the purchase of seed gram, trees and shrubs, the distribution of grain 

 for test, also young forest trees and tree seeds. The cost of the special experiments 

 in seed testing with grasses and grain, and the outlays connected with the botanical 

 chemical and much of the horticultural work, should also be divided since these aie 

 all of a general nature in the benefits of which all the experimental farms share. If 

 these accounts were divided and apportioned as suggested the sum charged against 

 the Central Experimental Farm would be vcr}^ much reduced. 



