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APPENDIX 



TO THE 



REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE 



ON 



EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 



Ottawa, llarcli 31, 1909. 



Sir, — I beg to submit for your approval the twenty-second annual report of the 

 work done, and in progress, at the several Experimental Farms. 



Following the report of the Director will be found a report on the work done by 

 the Division of Entomology and Botany, with special references to the work of the 

 late chief officer of this Division, Dr. James Fletcher. 



You will find also appended reports from the following officers of the Central 

 Experimental Farm : — From the Agriculturist, Mr. J. H. Grisdale ; from the Hor- 

 ticulturist, Mr. W. T. Macoun; from the Chemist, Mr. Frank T. Shutt; from the 

 Cerealist, Dr. C. E. Saunders, and from the Poultry Manager, Mr. A. G. Gilbert. 



From the branch Experimental Farms there are reports from Mr. R. Robertson, 

 Superintendent of the Experimental Farm for the Maritime Provinces, at Nappan, 

 Nova Scotia; from Mr. James Murray, Superintendent of the Experimental Farm 

 for Manitoba at Brandon; from Mr. Angus Mackay, Superintendent of the Experi- 

 mental Farm for Saskatchewan at Indian Head; from Mr. W. H. Fairfield, Superin- 

 tendent of the Experimental Farm for Southern Alberta at Lethbridge; from Mr. G. H. 

 Hutton, Superintendent of the Experimental 1 Farm for Central Alberta at Lacombe, 

 and from Mr. Thomas A. Sharpe, Superintendent of the Experimental Farm for 

 British Columbia at Agassiz. 



In these reports there will be found the results of many important and caret ully 

 conducted experiments in agriculture, horticulture and arboriculture, the outcome of 

 practical and scientific work in the fields, barns, dairy and poultry buildings, orchards 

 and plantations at the several Experimental Farms ; of scientific research in con- 

 nection with the breeding of cereals and in determining their relative value; of 

 research work in the chemical laboratories bearing on many branches of agricultural 

 and horticultural employment; and of information gained from the careful study of 



the life histories and habits of injurious insects and the methods by which noxious 

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