52 EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 



P GEORGE V., A. 1912 



ADDITIONS TO AND CHANGES IN THE STAFF OF THE 



EXPERIMENTAL FARMS. 



Mr. Gustave A. Langelier is the son of Chrysostome Langelier of Quebec. He 

 •was educated in both French and English in the Quebec colleges and early showed a 

 taste for live stock, his first efforts being in poultry breeding. He, for some years, 

 was quite prominent in poultry circles, winning many prizes in various breeds. 



About 1900, he bought Stadacona Farm at Cap Rouge and established there 

 herds of Ayrshire cattle, Yorkshire swine and a stud of Clydesdale horses. He has 

 been very successful in his breeding and feeding operations with dairy cattle and 

 Yorkshire swine especially, winning many prizes in all parts of the province of Que- 

 bec and some parts of the province of Ontario and in the United States. He also, 

 during that time, made a specialty of growing a variety of oats and a variety of 

 potatoes which were disseminated in considerable quantities from his farm. 



When Stadacona Farm was purchased by the Dominion Government as an Ex- 

 perimental Station, he was appointed its Superintendent, on January 1, 1901. 



Mr. R. E. Everest, B.S.A., Superintendent of the Experimental Station at Scott, 

 Sask., is a graduate of the Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph. In addition to 

 considerable experience in farming in Ontario, he has had two years' experience as 

 foreman on the Experimental Station at Lacombe, where he has had an opportunity 

 of familiarizing himself with the agricultural problems peculiar to the western pro- 

 vinces. 



During the year we have lost the services of Mr. Jas. Murray, Superintendent of 

 \he Experimental Farm at Brandon, Man. During the time he has held the position 

 of Superintendent, he has proved a- very careful and accurate experimenter and observer 

 and the results obtained in the crops grown on the Experimental Farm have been most 

 creditable. His persistent work has also resulted in a considerable improvement in all 

 parts of the work undertaken, including stock. His courteous bearing towards all 

 with whom he had to do, resulted in most kindly feelings between the public and him- 

 self and his stay, although short, has been a benefit to the Farm and his leaving us at 

 this time is a matter of much regret. The position he has accepted is one of much 

 responsibility and we have no doubt that he will fill it to the satisfaction of his employ- 

 ers and of the public generally. 



The farms have been fortunate in securing the services of Mr. W. C. McKillican 

 as his successor. He was born and brought up on his father's farm and early acquired 

 a taste for agriculture. He received his early training in the public schools and, after 

 attending the High School at Vankleek Hill, Ont., entered the Ontario Agricultural 

 College at Guelph, where he won several prizes for scholarship. In 1904. be took the 

 second highest individual score in the students' judging competition at Chicago. On 

 graduating with the degree of B.S.A., he received the appointment of representative 

 of the Seed Branch in Alberta, which position he held for six years and was quite suc- 

 cessful in the work under his charge, especially in the development of seed fairs, which 

 rose from practically an unknown thing to a total of thirty-five in Alberta this past 

 reason. This work has given him an excellent opportunity of learning western condi- 

 tions and of meeting western men, which will, without doubt, prove of great benefit 

 to him in his present position. 



Mr. W. W. Thomson, foreman of the Cultural and Rotation Work at the Experi- 

 mental Farm at Indian Head, Sask., was born at Carberry, Man., and after a public 

 school and business college training, entered the Manitoba Agricultural College in 

 1906, being a member of the pioneer class of that institution. During his four years' 



