7-8 EDWARD VII. 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



A. 1808 



EEPOPxT OF THE CHEMIST. 



Fka.nk T. SiiL tt, M.A., F.I.C., F.C.S., F.R.S.C. 



Ottawa, April 1, J907. 

 Dr. Wm. Saunders, C.M.G., 



Director, Dominion Experimental Farms, 

 Ottawa. 



Sii?, — I liavc the honour to submit horewith the twentieth annual report of the 

 Chemical Division of the Experimental Farms. 



It contains an account of the larger number of the more important researches 

 undertaken during the past sixteen months, the last annual report being dated Decem- 

 ber 1, 1!»05. A perusal of its pages will show that our field of work has been a wide 

 one and that practically every branch of Canadian agriculture has received sonie 

 assistance of a chemical nature. 



There is on all sides strong evidence that the work of the experimental farms 

 is being more and more appreciated and valued as it becomes better known, and in 

 this connection we feel gratified to note the wider recognition of the value of chemi- 

 cal investigations accorded by the intelligent, practical farmer. The increased corre- 

 spondence and the larger number of samples submitted to us for examination may, I 

 think, be accepted as indications of the correctness of this conclusion. 



The number and nature of the samples received for analysis from the various 

 provinces are given in the following table: — 



8\MFLi:s Received for Examination and Report November .30, 1905, to 



April 1, 1907. 



During the past year several important investigations relating to dairying have 

 been carried on and the results published in bulletin form. They appear as bulletins 

 No. 1.3, 'A Critical Study of the Sweet Creani Buttcr-]\[aking Process.' and No. 14, 

 * Apparatus for the Determination of Fat and Water in Butter,' Dairy Division, New 



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