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During this period of training, he worked on several farms, including a year 

 on the Government Farm at Truro, N.S., and a season under Professor Blair at 

 Macdonald College. 



After graduating, he returned to ISTova Scotia as manager of the Sunnyside farm 

 and orchards, and also had charge of the Demonstration Orchard work for the 

 Annapolis valley, carried on by the Dominion Goverament. During this time he 

 acted as secretary of the Bridgetown Fruit Co., Ltd., and of the United Fruit Com- 

 panies of Nova Scotia, Ltd. 



In his present position, he is chiefly engaged in pomological work. 

 Mr, A. J. Logsdail, B.S.A., Assistant to the Dominion Horticulturist, received 

 his early education in England. Coming to Canada, he took his degree at the 

 Ontario Agricultural CoUogo. after which, returning to the Old Country, he spent 

 two years as apprentice with James G. Sweet, V.M.H., F.E.H.S., proprietor of one 

 of the largest establishments under glass in Great Britain. The following eighteen 

 months were passed as Student Gardener at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, where 

 he was attached to the Landscape, Decorative and Tropical Departments, and secured 

 a certificate for courses taken in economic and systematic botany, physics and 

 chemistiy. 



Returning to America, he took a postgraduate course in Plant Genetics at 

 Cornell University, and then took a position under the Ontario Department of Agri- 

 culture as Assistant Horticulturist and Expert in Plant Genetics at the Horticul- 

 tural Experiment Station, Jordan Harbour. For eight months he was Acting 

 Director of the Station. 



He left this post to take his present position, in which he has plant breeding for 

 his special field of woi'k. 



Mr. W. Dreher, B.S.A., Assistant to the Dominion Horticulturist, devotes his 

 attention principally to vegetable gardening. 



Mr. Dreher, after spending two years in the Agricultural School of the Canton 

 of Neufchatel, Switzerland, came to Canada, and took the four-year course at 

 Macdonald College, graduating in 1912. In addition to his college training, he has 

 had considerable practical experience in farming and market gardening. 

 He took his present position soon after graduation. 



Mr. Walter L. Graham, B.S.A., Assistant to the Dominion Field Husbandman, 

 was born at Britannia J3ay, near Ottawa. He received his early training at the 

 rural public school, the Ottawa Collegiate Institute and at his father's stock and 

 daily farm. He entered the Ontario Agricultural College in 1909, taking the agri- 

 cultural option. Graduating in 1912, he returned home and continued farming in 

 partnership with his brother until he took the position he now holds. 



Mr. R. W. Nich'ols, F.C.S. (England), Assistant in Milling and Baking to the 

 Dominion Cerealist, received his early education at the King Alfred's grammar 

 school. Wantage, England. He then attended the City of Dublin Technical School, 

 taking the complete seven-year course in science. 



In 1901, he was appointed Assistant to F, Escombe, B. Sc, F.L.S., in the Guinness 

 Research Laboratory, retaining tho position during the three years the institution 

 was maintained. He was then employed in the Scientific Department of the GuinnciS 

 Brewery, Dublin, until 1911, being engaged in experimental work on the cultivation 

 of barley and on the analysis of cereals, in connection with the Irish Department of 

 Agriculture. 



In 1912, he came to Canada and took a special course in milling and baking 

 technology in Chicago the same year, after which he took his present position. His 

 work consists in the testing of the milling and baking qualities of varieties of 

 wheat and in testing for the. public samples of bad and suspicious flour. He has 

 also been conducting researches in breadmakiiig methods, and during the summer 

 months does work on the experimental plots of the Cereal Division. 



