12 EXPERIME^'TAL FARMS 



5 GEORGE v., A. 1915 



As a speaker, his services were in constant demand, and his practical advice, 

 bright personality and Scotch humour vpon him a host of ready listeners and warm 

 friends. 



In his reports and bulletins on poultry matters he covered the whole ground 

 of farm poultry management. His evidence, as given before committees of the 

 Senate and House of Commons from time to time, has been printed and distributed 

 in large editions. These, with his numerous articles in the agricultural press, 

 have made his name familiar to poultrymen throughout the Dominion. 



Outside of his official duties, his interests were varied. He was closely identified 

 with church, society and philanthropic work, and all who had the good fortune to 

 know him in any of his activities, will always remember his geniality, simplicity 

 and helpfulness. 



MEETINGS ATTENDED. 



My duties as Dii^ctor permit of mj attending but few meetings to speak on 

 agricultural or other subjects. I was able, however, to be present at certain of the 

 more important agricultural meetings and functions during the year, among which 

 might be mentioned more particularly the winter fairs for Ontario at Guelph and 

 Ottawa, the Manitoba Winter Fair at Brandon, the opening of the Manitoba Agri- 

 cultural College at Winnipeg, the Dry-Farming Congress at Tulsa, Oklahoma, 

 U.S,A., where I had the honour to be one of the Canadian delegates and give two 

 addresses, the one on " Live Stock for Dry-Farming District-s," and the other on'' Seme 

 Experimental Work in Cultural Methods on the Dominion Experimental Farms in 

 Dry-Farming Districts," the Eastern Ontario Dariymen's Convention, the We.-tern 

 Ontario Dairymen's Convention, the Quebec Dairymen's Convention, the Quebec 

 Live Stock Association at Montreal, the Ontario Live Stock Association at Toronto, 

 the Macdonald Agricultural College Commencement exercises at Ste. Anne de 

 Bellevue, Que., as well as a considerable number of Farmers' Club meetings and 

 annual meetings of agricultural associations of different kinds. 



JOUKNEYS MADE. 



As usual, the various Experimental Farms and Stations constituting this system 

 were visited by me during the year. In some cases, several visits were made. This 

 was done where work under way or other circumstance seemed to require a visit for 

 inspection or to decide on lines of action to be followed. 



In addition to the?e journeys made in connection with the Experimental Farms, 

 ,1 made a number of other trips into various parts of Canada, the most notable of 

 which was the journey made by Mr. G. H. Clark, Seed Commissioner, and myself, 

 from North Bay to Winnipeg by way of the Northern Ontario railroad to Cochrnne, 

 and thence over the right-of-way of the Transcontinental to Transcona, near Winni- 

 peg. The object of the trip was to obtain at first hand what information we couM 

 as to the agricultural value of the so-called "clay belt," said to extend from some 150 

 miles within hhe province of Quebec on the east to nearly Superior Junction on the 

 west, and from New Liskeard or Ilaileybury on the south to near James or Hudson 

 bay on the north. 



We left Ottawa via Canadian Pacific on the night of Thursday, June 26. Next 

 morning, we left North Bay on the Timiskaming and Northern Ontario. The first 

 hundred miles or thereabouts traversed by this line of railway is most unpromising 

 for agriculture. The ground is broken, hilly and rocky. Lumbering and mining 

 were proceeding actively, the latter reaching its climax at Cobalt. 



From Cobalt, we proceeded to New Liskeard at the northern end of lake Timis- 

 kaming. and next morning went over the most southerly part of the "clay belt" in 



