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Hearty thanks are also due to those members of the stati' at Ottawa who have 

 rendered mo effr-ient neip i- thoso branches of the work in piogross '! ero of whic i l 

 have had personal charge. To the horticulturist, Mr. W. T. Macouu, who has super- 

 vised the labour given to the lawns, and to the trees and shrubs planted on the orna- 

 mental grounds ; to the farm foreman, ^Ir. John Fixter, who has carefully watched 

 over the different branches of the work, taken special charge of the fertilized plots and 

 the larger field plots on the experimental grounds, and has aided me much by his prac- 

 tical suggestions and accurate notes ; to Mr. Harry Fixter, who has managed the work 

 connected with the experimental plots of cereals, fodder plots and field roots, and has 

 taken records of the growth and yield of all the varieties grown in the uniform trial 

 plots. I am also indebted to him for the careful management of the many details 

 connected with the distribution of samples of seed grain and potatoes ; to Mr. Wm. 

 Ellis my sincere thanks are rendered for his careful work in testing the vitality of 

 seeds, in the management of the green-house plants, in the propagation of the many 

 useful and ornamental species, and in the taking of the meteorological records. In 

 every branch of work the employees of all the farms have faithfully discharged their 

 duties. 



WM. SAUN^DERS, 

 Director Experimental Farms. 



