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course there, he held first-class honour standing each year and in his final year won, 

 in addition, the university silver medal for the highest standing in general proficiency. 

 Graduating in 1911 with the degree of Bachelor of Science in Agriculture, after 

 holding the position of Assistant Managing Director of Agricultural Societies for 

 Manitoba for a year, he was appointed to his present position. 



During the year assistants were appointed to the Dominion Agriculturist, to the 

 Dominion Horticulturist, to the Dominion Cerealist and to the Dominion Chemist. 



Mr. O. C. White, B.S.A., assistant to the Dominion Agriculturist, was born in 

 1887 in the county of South Ontario. After the usual training in the public and high 

 schools, he entered the Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph in 1906, where in his 

 fourth year, he was a member of the stock judging team at Chicago, winning the gold 

 medal on that occasion as the highest man on his college team. 



Upon graduation in 1910, he was appointed to his present position. 



Mr. T. G. Bunting, B.S.A., is a son of W. H. Bunting, the well-known fruit grower 

 of St. Catharines, Ontario, and was brought up on his father's fruit farm in the 

 Niagara district. 



He graduated from the Ontario Agricultural College in June, 1907, as a specialist 

 in horticulture. Since graduating, he has spent eight months on the Pacific coast, in 

 California, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia, studying the fruit industry of 

 that section. Since then, he has spent one year at home on a fruit farm and one year 

 at the New Hampshire Agricultural College and Experiment Station as assistant in 

 vegetable gardening. He severed his connection there in August, 1910, to accept his 

 present position of assistant to the Dominion Horticulturist. 



Mr. H. Sirett, B.S.A., assistant to the Dominion Cerealist, was born at Rousseau, 

 Muskoka, in 18S2. He was educated at the public schools and afterward at the Mount 

 Forest high school. He entered the Ontario Agricultural College in the autumn of 

 1905, graduating in June, 1909. 



At college he was the winner of the Governor General's medal for general profi- 

 ciency for two years, 1905 and 1907, and graduated with first-class honours in chem- 

 istry and field husbandry. 



For the year previous to accepting his present position, he was employed by the 

 Ontario Department of Agriculture as district representative in the county of 

 Carleton. 



Mr. Edward Blake Carruthers, M.A., Assistant Chemist, was born at Lindsay, 

 Ontario. He received his preliminary education at the Jamieson Ave., Collegiate 

 Institute, Toronto, and matriculated in 1905 with first-class honours in every depart- 

 ment, winning the Gibson Scholarship. He took his degree of B.A. in 1909, at 

 Toronto University, with honours in the course of Chemistry and Mineralogy. He 

 spent the following year as Instructor in Chemistry at Toronto University, taking 

 the degree of M.A. in 1910. 



He entered on his present position in the Chemistry Division at the Central Farm 

 on August 1. 1910. 



Mr. Clifford II. Robinson, Assistant Chemist, was born near Florence, Ontario, in 

 1S88. 



He received his preliminary education in the Collegiates of Chatham and Ridgc- 

 town. He entered Toronto University as the holder of the first Edward Blake Scholar- 

 ship in Mathematics and Science, in the class of 1909, in the course of Chemistry and 

 Mineralogy. He held the scholarships granted in this department in his first and 

 third years, taking his degree of B.A. with first-class honours in 1909. 



The following year was spent as Assistant in Chemistry at Toronto University, 

 lie entered the Chemical Division of the Experimental Farms on August 1, 1910. 



Mr. A. T. Stuart, B.A.. Assistant Chemist, was born in 1882, at Hamilton, 

 Ontario. He attended the Hamilton public schools and Collegiate Institute. He 

 entered Toronto University, with Honour Matriculation standing, in the class of 



