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surgeons. The executive work of this division is in the hands of a 

 Chief Meat Inspector, who is assisted by one travelling inspector 

 in addition to an officer in charge of each abattoir. The inspection 

 consists of a careful examination of every animal intended for 

 slaughter in the yards or pens of the abattoir before being allowed 

 to enter the killing floor. The inspector makes an equally thorough 

 examination of every carcase. If no evidence of disease be found, 

 the carcase is marked " Approved " with a stamp or label. Should 

 any carcase be found showing any evidence of disease, such as to 

 render it unfit for food, it is immediately marked " Condemned." 



V. CENSUS AND STATISTICS OFFICE 



This office was brought into existence in 1905 by Act of 

 Parliament. It has to take a census every ten years of the whole 

 of the Dominion, starting from 1911 — a census which will not 

 only include an enumeration of the people, but also an account 

 of the whole resources of the country and of all the natural products 

 of land and water. Such a census in a new and growing country is 

 of the utmost importance, not only to the farmers of that country, 

 but to the farmers of every country, for it enables them to measure 

 the development and to meet the competition which must inevitably 

 result from that development. Ten years, however, is a long time 

 to be without a census in the rising provinces of the Far West, and 

 it was provided that in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta 

 a census of population and agriculture should be taken in 1906, 

 and every ten years thereafter. We shall thus have a census of 

 the north-west provinces every five years. The Report on the 

 first census was published in 1907. It is a storehouse of facts and 

 figures indispensable to the student of Canadian agriculture. 



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