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2-3 EDWARD VII. SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 A. 1993 
Rh PoRT 
OF THE 
MN TOMOLOGIST AND BOTANIST 
(James Fiercuer, LL.D., F.L.S., F.R.S.C.) 
1902. 
Orrawa, December 1, 1902. 
Dr. Wm. SAUNDERS, 
Director of Dominion Experimental Farms, 
Ottawa, 
Str,—I have the honour to hand you herewith a report on some of the more impor- 
tant subjects which have received attention in the Division of Entomology and Botany 
during the year 1902. Many other subjects have taken up some of the time of the 
staff, but do not require special treatment in this report. The ever increasing number 
of applications for information continue to give encouraging evidence as to the utility 
of the investigations carried on year by year in the Division. The gradual but sure 
adoption by farmers of such scientific methods of protecting their crops from the attacks 
of injurious insects and destructive fungi, as spraying, &c., must to a large measure be 
traced directly to instructions given by officers of the Experimental Farms. 
Correspondence.—The large correspondence of the Division has been of the usual 
varied character, and as in the past shows a considerable increase in the numbers of 
letters received. From November 30, 1901, to November 390, 1902, the number of letters 
exclusive of circulars, registered as received, is 3,215, and the number despatched 2,845. 
Meetings attended.—Meetings of farmers’ institutes, and agricultural associations of 
various kinds, have been attended whenever other official duties would allow of my 
absence from Ottawa. 
January 8 to 10, Whitby, Ont.—The Eastern Ontario Dairymen’s Association, where 
addresses were delivered : (1) ‘ Hay and Pasture Grasses,’ ‘ The Cultivation of Flowers.’ 
The Ontario Ladies College :—‘The Value of Nature Study in Education.’ 
January 20 to 24, Wolfville, N.S.—Nova Scotia Fruit Growers’ Association : (1) 
‘Insects Injurious to Fruits’, (2) ‘The San José Scale in Canada.’ 
January 23, Amherst, Nova Scotia Farmers’ Association: ‘ Farmers’ Friends and 
Foes’, ‘ Pasture Grasses, Potato Rot, and Injurious Insects.’ 
February 5, Howick, Que.—Huntingdon Dairymen’s Association: (2) ‘ Potato 
Rot’, (2) ‘Quack Grass, Perennial Sow Thistle and other Weeds’, (3) ‘The Care of 
House Plants.’ ~ 
February 7, Cowansville, Que.—District of Bedford Dairymen’s Association : (1) 
‘Insects Injurious to Farm Crops’, (2) ‘The best Pasture Grasses for Quebec Province’, 
(3) ‘Potato Rot,’ (4) ‘Perennial Sow ay and Quack Grass.’ 
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