iv EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 



4 GEORGE V., A. 1914 



The detailed report on Poultry Husbandry at the Central Farm is very brief this 

 year. The synopsis included in Section A was prepared only in part by Mr. A. G. 

 Gilbert. Mr. Gilbert was sick during a great part of the year, hence the experimental 

 work carried on here was small, and the report thereon, with the few statistics which 

 make up the Ottawa part of the detailed report under the above heading, has been 

 put into shape by Mr. V. Fortier, Assistant Poultry Husbandman. • 



Section A, which provides a concise, yet comprehensive, account of the work, 

 is designed especially for those desirous of obtaining general information as to what 

 is being done on the Experimental Farms system. 



Section B is intended more immediately to aid the farmer in the various details 

 of his work. 



It is hoped that this new arrangement, which groups together the year's work 

 along any one line, will prove more convenient and useful to the farming community 

 than the former system, whereby such work was recorded in widely separated 

 portions of the report. 



I have the honour to be, Sir, 



Your obedient servant, 



J. H. GRISDALE. 



Director, Dominion Experimental Farm*. 

 To the Honourable 



The Minister of Agriculture, 

 Ottawa. 



