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3. Seed. 



4. Live Stock. 



5. Health of Animals. 



6. Census and Statistics Office. 



7. Tobacco Division. 



There are also five non-agricultural branches which, for con- 

 venience of administration, are at present controlled by the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture under the same chief, viz. : — 



1. Patent. 



2. Copyright and Trade Mark. 



3. Archives. 



4. Public Health and Quarantine. 



5. Exhibition. 



The last-named branch is responsible for the representation at 

 the principal international exhibitions of the world, of all the 

 resources of Canada, including agriculture. 



We do not in this section propose to deal with experimental 

 farms which have been dealt with elsewhere in this report, nor can 

 we deal with all the other branches of the Department of Agriculture 

 above enumerated. We shall, however, endeavour briefly to deal 

 with a few of the more important of them from an agricultural point 

 of view. 



N.B. — In addition to the Federal Department of Agriculture, 

 each province has an Agricultural Department of its own. 



I. DAIRY AND COLD STORAGE COMMISSIONER'S 



BRANCH 



This branch, when it came into existence in 1890, was known as 

 the branch of the- Commissioner of Agriculture and Dairying. The 

 Chief was Professor James W. Robertson, C.M.G., now Principal of 

 the Macdonald College, St Anne de Bellevue, near Montreal, a man 

 whose initiative genius has done much to encourage agriculture in 

 Canada. In 1895, divisions of this branch were established for 

 dairying, live stock, seed, poultry and fruit. In 1905, on the retire- 

 ment of Professor Robertson, the branch was re-organised into three 

 separate branches under the heads of Dairying, Live Stock, and Seed. 

 The Dairy and Cold Storage Commissioner's Branch is now 

 under the charge of Mr J. A. Ruddick, a public servant of great 

 experience and untiring energy, who accompanied the Com- 

 mission through the greater part of Eastern Canada, and contributed 

 in large measure to the pleasure and the profit of the trip, and it 

 consists of the following divisions : — 



I. Dairying- 



This division, which at the outset was a branch in itself, first 

 tackled the dairy trade in Prince Edward Island in 1892, by starting 



