REPORT OF THE CHEMIST. 



147 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



The amount of laboratory work in connection with this research has been enor- 

 mous, but the growing importance of the English export bacon trade — both to farmers 

 and pork packers — may be urged as a justification for the exceedingly large though 

 necessary expenditure of time. Already the investigation has yielded important and 

 valuable results (see pages 151 to 155 Report for 1S99), and there is every pi'obability 

 that still more valuable deductions may be drawn from the data at the close of the 

 present experiments. It is proposed to publish these conclusions in bulletin form, as 

 soon as the laboratory work is finished, which, as we have said, will be in about two 

 months' time. 



Samples Received for Analysis. — In the following schedule we furnish the num- 

 ber and indicate the character of the samples received during the past year for exam- 

 ination and report : — 



S.\MPLES Received from Farmers for Examination and Report, Xovember 30, 1899, 



to December 1. 1900. 



Achnou'ledgments. — Xaturally, with the ever increasing work of the Division, 

 more and more of that which is purely analytical falls to the lot of the assistant 

 chemists. The past year, as evidenced by this report, not to speak of the very large 

 Bumber of analyses that have been made in connection with the soft pork investiga- 

 tions, has been an exceedingly busy one, and I am corsequently more than ever 

 indebted to my assistants for their valuable aid. 



!Mr. A. T. Charron, B.A., First Assistant Chemist, has continued to discharge hia 

 duties with fidelity and skill. From the date of his appointment. Mr. Charron ha3 

 taken a keen and intelligent interest in agricultural research and investigations, and 

 has afforded me most valuable help in the work of this Division. 



To Mr. H. W. Charlton, B.A.Sc, Second Assistarrt Chemist, my thanks are also 

 due. He has been most assiduous in his work, all of which has been characterized by 

 care and thoughtfulness, and I am pleased to bear testimony to his good services. 



The clerical labours involved in carrying on the various parts of our work is now 

 very considerable. It includes stenographic and typographic and secretary work in 

 general, in addition to the calculation and posting of analytic<il results. In all of 

 this we have had the help of ^Er. J. F. TVatson, who, as in former years, has earned 

 my thanks for a careful and painstaking performance of his duties. 



I have the honotir to be, sir. 



Your obedient servant. 



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FRAXK T. SHUTT, 

 Chemist, Dominion Experimental Fanns. 



