APPENDIX C LXXXVII 
During the winter of 1915-16 all possible data were recorded by a 
graphical method, and by tables; correlations of wheat and weather 
were studied, and cautious conclusions will be drawn. 
By a co-operative agreement with the office of experiment 
stations of the United States; the translation of many of the most 
valuable Russian publications has proceeded simultaneously at 
Washington and at Toronto. Copies of all translations were ex- 
changed. Also, Dr. T. K. Doherty, Canadian Commissioner of 
the International Institute of Agriculture has translated from the 
French several articles by Prof. P. Broounoff, Chief of the Russian 
Bureau of Agricultural Meteorology. Through the kindness of Dr. 
Doherty these articles, together with the best of those in Russian, 
will likely become available to Canadians in the Bulletin of Foreign 
Agricultural Intelligence published by the Dominion Department of 
Agriculture; and these translated articles should serve to educate, 
and to awaken public interest. 
It is proposed in 1916 to continue the experimental work of 1915. 
Acknowledgment is due in Canada to Dr. Shutt and to Dr. C. E. 
Saunders, Dominion Cerealist, for their courteous assistance in the 
development of the field experiments. Mr. Mills is to spend the whole 
of the growing season of 1916, at the Central Experimental Farm at 
Ottawa, in order to be in closest contact with the agriculture and 
biology of the subject. 
TERRESTRIAL MAGNETISM 
The phofographic magnetic instruments have been kept in 
operation without any material loss of record. The value of the base 
line for Declination was determined from weekly observations with 
the absolute Declinometer. The observations were usually made 
on Monday and comprise four sets of eight pointings on the magnet 
taken in conjunction with eye readings of the photographic instru- 
ment. For Horizontal Force the base line was determined twice a 
month as before. In the case of the Vertical Force, it was found 
necessary to increase the number of absolute observations to four 
per week in order to reduce the probable error to + 2y. 
The westerly Declination has increased from 6° 27’-2 in March, 
1915, to 6° 32’-2 in March, 1916, and annual change of 5/:0. The 
Horizontal Force has decreased during the same period from 0- 16039 
dynes to 0-15983, an annual change of 0-00056 dynes, whilst the 
Vertical Force has decreased from 0-58673 dynes to 0-58553. This 
change in Horizontal and Vertical Force is equivalent to a change 
in the Inclination from 74° 42’-7 to 74° 43’-9. 
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