8 EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 



4 GEORGE V., A. 1914 



NEW BUILDINGS. 



An extension to the Chemical Laboratory on the Central Farm was practically- 

 completed this year. The increased work of this Division made such an extension 

 most necessary, and will enable it to take up lines of work heretofore unattempted 

 owing to lack of laboratory room. 



A cow barn, to accommodate twenty-four milch cows, was also built. . It is 

 constructed with a view to experimental work in feeding and pure milk production. 

 Arrangements are also made for research into the comparative digestibility of feeds. 



On the Branch Farms and Stations, the heaviest building operations took place 

 on the Experimental Station at Kentville, N.S., the Experimental Farm at Indian 

 Head, Sask., and the Experimental Station at Lacombe, Alta. On several of the 

 other Farms and Stations buildings were erected also, as mentioned further on in 

 this report. 



NEW DIVISIONS FORMED. 



It was decided this year to subdivide the work heretofore carried on by the 

 Dominion Agriculturist. This step was made necessary by the rapid expansion of 

 the work, rendering it impossible for any one officer to do justice to all the different 

 lines of experiment. 



Two Divisions have been formed as a result, those of Animal Husbandry and of 

 Field Husbandry. 



A third Division, that of Forage Plants, was also formed during the year. The 

 officer at the head of this Division is known as the Dominion Agrostologist, and 

 has to do with the study of forage plants and roots, with a view to the breeding of 

 new varieties, as well as the testing of sorts now known. Work is being carried on 

 at Ottawa and, to some extent, at the various Branch Farms. The Division will 

 work in conjunction with the Divisions of Animal Husbandry and of Field Hus- 

 bandry, as to the practical testing of varieties produced. 



For the past year, the work of the Division of Field Husbandry has been 

 carried on by Mr. O. O. White, B.S.A., under my supervision. 



During the year, the Tobacco Division, which heretofore had been a separate 

 branch of the Department, became a part of the Experimental Farms system, its chief 

 officer, Mr. F. X. Charlan, remaining in charge. In addition to the experimental 

 work carried on by this Division on the Central Farm at Ottawa, branch Tobacco 

 Stations are established at Harrow, in Ontario, and at Farnham and at St. Jacques 

 de l'Achigan, in Quebec. 



ADDITIONS TO AND CHANGES IN THE STAFF. 



In June, 1912, Mr. E. S. Archibald, B.A., B.S.A., was appointed Dominion 

 Animal Husbandman. 



He was born at Yarmouth, N.S., May 12, 1885, and received his primary educa- 

 tion at Yarmouth Public School and Yarmouth Academy. He entered Acadia Univer- 

 sity in 1901 from which he took his Arts degree in 1905. He also graduated from the 

 Nova Scotia Horticultural School in the same year, and from Nova Scotia Agricul- 

 tural <College in 1906. He received his degree of Bachelor of Scientific 

 Agriculture from the Ontario Agricultural College, in the year 1908. During 

 the summers of 1904 to 1908 he worked on several of the largest stock 

 farms in the Maritime Provinces and Ontario, in the capacity of assistant 

 husbandman, herdsman and farm foreman. In the fall of 1908, he accepted 

 the position of Instructor of Agriculture and Experimentalist at the Nova 

 Scotia Agricultural College. He was raised to the position of Professor of 

 Agriculture and Farm Superintendent at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College, in 

 the year 1910. In June, 1912, he resigned his position in Nova Scotia to accept the 



