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EXPERIMENTAL FARMS. 



METEOEOLOaiOAL OBSEEVATIONS. 



Table of Meteorological Observations taken at the Central Experimental Farm 

 Ottawa, 1893; maximum, minimum, and mean temperature for each month, 

 with date of occurrence ; also rainfall and snowfall : 



January . , 

 February . 

 March . . . 



April 



May 



June 



July 



August . . . 

 September 



October. . . 

 November 



Snowfall. 

 Inches. 



3000 



29 OO 



2-50 



500 



600 



72-50 



Rain or snow fell on 158 days during the 11 months. 



Heaviest rainfall in 24 hours 1"97 in., on September 29th. 



Heaviest snowfall in 24 hours 8 00 in., on January 2nd. 



During May rain fell on 17 days. 



October shows the lowest number of days on which rain feU during the summer months, viz., 9. 



WILLIAM T. ELLIS, 



In charge of Observations. 



ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. 



In closing this section of the report, I desire to express my obligations to all 

 the officers composing the working staff of the several experimental farms for 

 their ready and hearty co-operation in all departments of the work which have 

 been planned and for the successful carrying out of the measures devised, also to the 

 workmen for the interest they have taken in doing their part well. The success of 

 the work has exceeded all anticipations and has gained multitudes of friends and ad- 

 vocates for the farms among the agriculturists and horticulturists of Canada and the 

 most favourable comments from those best able to judge of the value of the work 

 in other countries. The results reflect credit on all. A personal acknowledgment 

 is specially due to those members of the Central Experimental Farm stafl:*, who 

 have so ably assisted me in those sections of the work of which from the beginning 

 I have assumed the personal charge. I allude to portions of the agricultural work 

 (by special arrangement with the agriculturist) to the forest plantations and the 

 planting of ornamental groups of trees and shrubs, the care of the seed testing and pro- 

 pagating houses, and the distribution of seed grain for test. To the farm foreman, 

 Mr. John Fixter ; to the foreman in forestry, Mr. W. T. Macoun ; who has also acted 

 as my assistant in the experimental field work, to Mr. W. T. Ellis, who has had the 

 charge of the testing and propagating houses, and to Mr. J. Kirkpatrick, who has 

 carried on the work connected with the seed distribution, my grateful acknowledg- 

 ments are due for the care and vigilance which they have shown in the manage- 

 ment of these several divisions of the work and in collecting and preserving the 

 data on which much of the information in this part of the report is based. 



WM. SAUNDEES, 

 Director Dominion Experimental Farms. 



