7-8 EDWARD VII. 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



A. 1908 



INDEX 



Page. 



Agriculturist— Report of the 47 



Beef production, 1905-06 C6-74 



1906-07 74-78 



Remarks on scope of report 67 



Feeding steers 67 



Winter feeding, 1905-06 C7-68 



Spring feeding 69-70 



Baby beef, 1905-1906 7.1-74 



1906-1P07 T7-78 



Steer fe£>ding. 1906-1907 71-77 



Extra ehoice n-s. inferior steers 71-75 



Long feed vs. short keep steers.. .. ..7C-77 



Dairy herds, the 4-9 



Feeding the dairy cow 50 



Summer feedimg 50 



Winter feeding 50 



Feeding, cost of 54 



Breeding and feeding the dairy calf.. 51 



Dairy cattle 49 



Dairy cow records 52 



Dairy cows, cost of feeding 54 



Dairy herd report, July 1, 1905 to March 



31, 1906 55 



Dairy herd report, July 1, 1905 to March 



31, 1907 57 



Ayrshires 59 



Canadians 59 



Guernseys 59 



Shorthorns 59 



Grades 59 



Dairy cows, experiments with 60-56 



Gluten, oil me-al, cotton seed meal. vs. 



bran and. oats 60-64 



Summary of experiment 64 



Internaticmal stock food 64-65 



Roots and ensilage 66 



Farm, comparative sntatements of crops 



on, from 1899 to .1906, inclusive 82 



Feed on hand, A<pTn 1, 1907 81 



Horses. 



47 



Horse labour 49 



. Experiments with horse-s with intern- 

 ational stock food 49 



Herbageum, experiment on swine with. 79 

 International stock food for dairy cows.(M-65 



" " horses 49 



Inventories, live stock and feed on hand 80 



Agriculturist — Report of the — Con. 



Letter of transmittal 



Live s tock 



Horses 



Cattle (pure bred breeding).. . 



(grade) 



Steers 



Page. 



. 47 



. 47 



. 47 



. 48 



. 48 



. 48 



Sheep 48 



Swine 48 



Financial statements 80 



Pork production 78-80 



Swine feeding, experiments with.. ..78-80 



MeaJ and mangels 79 



Meal and sugar beets 79 



Meal and herbageum 79 



Meal 80 



Rotation experiment 83 



Comparative values of rotations on 



stock farms 83 



Rotation A, 5 years 84 



Rotation B, 5 years 85 



Rotation D, 4 years (deep ploughing). 86 



Rotation S, 4 years (shallow ploughing) 87 



Rotation E, 3 years 88 



Rotation Z, 3 years 89 



Rotation H, 4 years, ho:;s 90 



Relation T, 4 years, sheep 91 



Rotations M, N, O, and P, short vs. 

 long, and clover ve. no clover 92-96 



Steers, experim'ent with 67-78 



Steers, experiment with 67-78 



Extra choice vs. inferior steers, 1906- 

 1907 74-75 



Long feed vs. short keep steers, 1906- 

 1907 76-77 



Winter feeding, 1905-1906 67-68 



Spring feeding 69-70 



Swine 48 



" feed>i.ng (See pork production).. ..78-80 



Cerealist— Report of the 236 



Acknowledgments 236 



Barley, six-row 245 



Beardless 246 



Rarliest varieties of 246 



Hulless 246 



Most productive varieties of 24€ 



Test of varieties of 246 



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