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REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF AGRIOULTDRE 



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EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 



Ottawa, December 1, 1905. 



Sir, — I beg to submit for your approval tbe nineteenth annual report of the work 

 clone, and in progress, at the several experimental farms. 



In addition to my report, you will find appended reports from the following officers 

 of the Central Experimental Farm: — From the Agriculturist, Mr. J. H. Grisdale; 

 from the Horticulturist, ]\Ir. W. T. Macoun; from the Chemist, Mr. Frank T. Shutt; 

 from the Entomologist and Botanist, Dr. James Fletcher; 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. Kobertson, 

 Superintendent, and from Mr. W. S. Blair, Horticulturist of the Experimental Farm 

 for the Maritime Provinces, at Nappan, Nova Scotia ; from Mr. S. A. Bedford, Super- 

 intendent of the Experimental Farm for Manitoba at Brandon; from Mr. Angus 

 Mackay, Superintendent of the Experiraental Farm for the North-west Territories, 

 at Indian Head, 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 carefully 

 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; also of scientific research in con- 

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

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

 isnd 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 

 weeds are propagated and spread, together with the most practical and economical 



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