REPORT OF TEE DIRECTOR 9 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



MEETINGS ATTENjjED. 



The many duties demanding my attention at Ottawa, and the necessarily large 

 amount of time taken up each year in visiting the various branch Farms and Stations, 

 prevent my attending many agricultural conferences or meetings of any kind. I 

 found it possible, however, to take part in meetings or deliver addresses at a number 

 of points during the past year. Among the more important meetings att-ended and 

 addressed were the following: Waterloo County Farmers' Institute annual meeting 

 at Gait, Ont. ; Farmers' meeting (special), St. Jean Port Joli, Que.; Eastern Ontario 

 Dairymen's Association meeting at Peterborough, Ont.; Patriotism and Production 

 meetings at Kingston, Perth, Belleville, and Peterborough in Ontario; Board of 

 Trade meeting, Lethbridge, Alta. ; and Field Naturalists' Club of Ottawa at Ottawa, 

 this last address being on the subject " Milk," and illustrated with lantern slides. 



JOURNEYS. 



As usual, journeys undertaken have been for the most part such as were connected 

 with the inspection of branch Farms and Stations already under way or else for the 

 purpose of looking into conditioiis with a view to the establishment of new Stations 

 in districts where such work is not yet begun. 



In April and May, 1914, I visited the Experimental Farms and Stations in the 

 Maritime Provinces and Quebec, and in !May and June inspected those situated west 

 o-f the Great Lakes, as well as visited the tobacco Stations at Farnham, Que., and 

 Harrow, Ont. 



While in the West at this time I again went over the ground upon which it had 

 for some time been a question of the establishment of a Station for the Okanngai> 

 Talley, in British Columbia, and also visited a number of possible sites for a Station 

 in southern Manitoba. 



In October and November I again visited the western Farms and Stations, and 

 on this occasion was authorized to organize an Experimental Station at Summerland 

 on the site just mentioned as having been again inspected in June. This Station, as 

 reported on elsewhere, is now well under way. 



On the occasion of this trip to the West I visited a number of points in the south- 

 western part of Saskatchewan and in the southern part of Alberta. Trips were under- 

 taken along the various railroad lines in these districts in both provinces, stops being 

 made at various points, and runs undertaken by horse or automobile out into 

 the country adjoining the railroads or, in some cases, long automobile runs 

 taken across country where no railroads existed. This trip, taken by direction of the 

 Minister of Agriculture, had for its object not only the familiarizing of myself with 

 agricultural conditions in the area mentioned, but was taken in a large measure with a 

 yiew to the selection of a number of locations for the carrying on of illustration work 

 in this region where there is a somewhat lighter average annual rainfall than in most 

 parts of the prairie country. The results of this trip are discussed elsewhere under the 

 heading " Illustration Stations." 



In December I made a trip to Cochrane, Ont., the present northern terminus of 

 the Toronto and Northern Ontario railway, and the principal town on the Trans- 

 continental railway between Quebec and Winnipeg. 



From Cochrane I proceeded west along the Transcontinental railway for about 

 75 miles, seeking a site for the location of an internment camp for alien enemies who 

 were to be put to work clearing land to be used later for Experimental Farm purposes. 

 A most excellent location was found where the railway crosses the Kapuskasing river, 

 end here camps were opened up and operations begun immediately. 



To the eastward of Cochrane I travelled about 150 miles, and finally fixed upon 

 Spirit Lake as being probably the site on the line of the Transcontinental in the pro- 



