4 GEORGE V. SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 A. 1914 



REPORT 



FROM THE 



DIVISION OF ANIMAL HUSBANDRY. 



J. H. Grisdale, Esq., B.Agr., 



Director Dominion Experimental Farms, 

 Ottawa. 



Sir, — I have the honour to submit herewith reports upon the beef cattle, dairy 

 cattle and dairying operations, horses, sheep and swine on the Central Experimental 

 Farm and branch Farms and Stations which have come under my supervision during 

 the past year. 



At the commencement of the fiscal year 1912-13, the Animal Husbandry work 

 was made into a division separate from Field Husbandry. Immediately after my 

 appointment in July, 1912, I took up duties at Ottawa. The appointment of an 

 assistant to the Dominion Animal Husbandman was made in August, 1912, when 

 Mr. G. B. Rothwell, B.S.A., was named to the position. 



A natural result of the readjustment of work, making of new appointments and 

 much necessary changing and construction, has been a somewhat smaller amount of 

 investigation work with all branches of live stock during the past year. 



In the future, however, it is hoped that much more experimental woi'k, both at 

 Ottawa and on the branch Farms and Stations, will be started, and the usefulness 

 of the Division proportionately increased. 



In the preparation and compiling of a large amount of the data contained in 

 the text of the Central Farm report, I am indebted to Mr. G. B. Rothwell. The 

 conducting of work and compiling results of such work on the branch Farms and 

 Stations have been in the hands of the Superintendents of those Farms and Stations. 



In work with swine, both breeding and feeding, on the Central Experimental 

 Farm, Mr. D. D. Gray, Farm Foreman, deserves special credit for the very 

 efficient manner in which he conducted the various operations and retained careful 

 and accurate results of same. 



The work of registration, maintaining, breeding and sales records, and the like, 

 for the Central Experimental Farm has been most efficiently conducted by Mr. 

 G. B. Rothwell. 



To Mr. Meilleur, the dairyman at the Central Farm, I am indebted for the 

 excellent work and careful records of his department. Under my supervision he has 

 again found it possible to introduce some new lines of work in the Farm dairy, some 

 details of which will be found in the body of this report. 



I regret to report another change of herdsman at the Central Farm. Mr. J. 

 Haining, who has given efficient service during the past three years resigned in 

 January, 1913. However, the position was at once most satisfactorily filled by 

 Mr. Robt. Cunningham. To both must be given credit for interest and assistance 



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