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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



He was bom in 1866 and brought up on a farm on the St. John river, at Burton, 

 Sunbury county. At the age of fifteen, he matriculated into the Agricultural College 

 at Guelph, Ontario, where he graduated as a Live Stock Specialist, in April, 1884. 

 He then returned to New Brunswick and joined with his father in conducting the 

 farm at Burton. 



He was for many years secretary of the Farmers' and Dairymens' Association 

 of New Brunswick. During this time he was engaged by the Government of Canada 

 as a dairy specialist and was for some years in charge of the Experimental Stations 

 at Kingsclear and Sussex, N.B., and organized local dairy associations throughout 

 the province, under the direction of Dr. James W. Robertson, then Dairy Commis- 

 sioner for Canada. He was also actively interested in many other matters having to 

 do with advanced agriculture, during the period from his graduation to 1908. 



After the provincial elections of 1908, which resulted in the accession of the 

 Hazen Government to power, a Royal Commission was appointed by that Government 

 to make a thorough inquiry into the agricultural conditions and possibilities of New 

 Brunswick, and Mr. Hubbard was chosen one of its members, and its secretary. He 

 also acted as official reporter of the legislature for New Brunswick for the sessions 

 of 1908-9. 



Shortly after the report of the Agricultural Commission was presented to the 

 Government, in 1909, Mr. Hubbard was appointed Secretary for Agriculture for the 

 province, holding the rank of deputy head of the department, and in that capacity 

 assisted in giving effect to some of the recommendations of the Agricultural Commis- 

 sion, through which the number of agricultural societies in the province has been 

 more than doubled, the horticultural branch organized, the poultry industry encour- 

 aged, and much work done for the improvement of live stock and agricultural educa- 

 tion generally. 



He resigned from his position of Secretary for Agriculture to accept his present 

 appointment. 



Mr. G. B. Rothwell, Assistant Dominion Animal Husbandman, was born at Ottawa, 

 in 1884. His early training was received at Ottawa Public Schools, Collegiate Insti- 

 tute, and at his father's dairy farm near Ottawa. In 1901, he entered the Ontario 

 Agricultural College, taking the Agricultural and Live Stock option, and graduating 

 in 1905. He then returned to his home, becoming identified with extensive dairy 

 interests there. Mr. Rothwell was appointed to his present position in 1912. 



Mr. F. L. Sladen, Assistant Entomologist for Apiculture, was born in England, 

 in 1S76, and has been engaged in bee-keeping since boyhood. He has conducted 

 apiaries with a view to honey production on a large scale, and has done valuable work 

 in bee improvement, having succeeded in producing a breed of great value fon 

 crossing. 



In addition to a booklet on the bumble-bee, published at the age of sixteen, he is 

 the author of Queen-rearing in England, published in 1905. This work describes the 

 methods employed in breeding the new bee referred to above. 



In 1912, he brought out an extensive work on the bumble-bee, covering the 

 results of many years' investigations. 



In 1910, he made a tour in Canada and the United States, visiting prominent 

 bee-keepers. He has made several important discoveries in the morphology and 

 physiology of the honey-bee. 



He has been employed by the Indian government to select and ship t(o India 

 different varieties of the honey-bee, and by the Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral 

 Association of New Zealand, to select and ship to that Dominion new species of 

 bumble-bees. 



Mr. Sladen's training in entomology, as well as apiculture, opens a large field 

 of usefulness to him in Canada. 



