REPORT OF MR. ANGU8 MACKAY 



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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



twelve months 2 Berkshire boars and 7 sows, and 2 Tamworth boars and 1 sow have 

 been sold to farmers for breeding purposes. 



There are at present on the farm 11 Yorkshire White, 23 Berkshire and 9 Tam- 

 worth pigs. 



POULTRY. 



Barred Plymouth Rock, Black Minorca and Light Brahma fowls are kept. Set- 

 tings of eggs and young fowls are sold to applicants so far as the supply permits. 



Record was kept of the number of eggs laid by each breed for 7 months, April to 

 October inclusive, and the results are given below: — 



INSTITUTE MEETINGS. 



I had the pleasure of attending institute meetings in the month of June, in com- 

 pany with Mr. George Harcourt (then supermtendent of institute work for the Ter- 

 ritories), at Kyle, Shanon, Kinistino, Melfort, Birch Hills and Red Deer Hili, all 

 south or southeast of Prince Albert in Saskatchewan. These meetings were arranged 

 by the Department of Agriculture at Regina, and all, with one exception, when heavy 

 rain interfered, were very well attended. 



These meetings gave me an opportunity of seeing the growing crops throughout 

 a large section of the country, as well as of seeing the general conditions of farming 

 carried on in the northern settled part of Saskatchewan. For some weeks prior to 

 my visit, the weather in the north had been very dry, and grain as a rule was fur- 

 ther advanced than in the southern districts, but was not so heavy, and weeds were 

 more noticeable. The crops however on the whole looked very well, with many very 

 fine fields of wheat and oats. 



Having visited this section of country several years ago, when there was no 

 raili'oad, or way of disposing of the products grown, except teaming very long dis- 

 tances to market, it gave me great pleasure to visit field after field of grain, and to 

 see alongside cars ready to take it to the consumer. Then, Melfort and Kinistino 

 consisted of a post office and a school. Now, both are large and ambitious towns, 

 giving good evidence of what two magnificent districts can do, when facilities are 

 provided for taking out of the country its products. 



GRAIN dealers' TRIP. 



Through the kindness of the grain dealers of Winnipeg, I enjoyed a trip of 

 three days' duration before harvest time through the wheat fields of part of Assini- 



