6 EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 



2-3 EDWARD VII., A. 1903 



For sixteen years past the Dominion Experimental Farms have enlisted the 

 co-operation of a great host of farmers from the Atlantic to the Pacific in a genera 

 experimental testing of promising varieties of grain and other important farm crops, with 

 the view of ascertaining which are best adapted to the varying climates and soils found in 

 different parts of this country. During the past seven years an average of more than 

 thirty thousand Canadian farmers have thus associated themselves each year with the 

 Experimental Farms. Seven years' experience with such an army of workers, backed as 

 it has been by continued and helpful tests at the experimental fanns and the distribu- 

 tion of much information on the subject, has resulted in the introduction almost every- 

 where of better and more productive sorts of cereals, and this has doubtless been an 

 important factor in the large harvest of 1902. Where difficulties present themselves in 

 farm work, the farmer can consult the publications he receives from the experimental 

 farms and if these do not give him all the information he needs he can write the officers 

 of the farms whose large experience is at his command and from whom he will receive 

 advice suited to his conditions. By the free use of such timely aid, alwavs available, 

 together with the other helpful measures devised both by the Dominion and Provincial 

 Governments the farmers of this country are advancing rapidly in intelligence and exper- 

 ience, and the outlook for much greater progress in agricultural affairs is veiy bright. 



The accompanying annual report, the sixteenth of the series, will be found to contain 

 a large amount of practical information which it is hoped will be helpful to farmers in 

 every part of Canada. 



