April, 1922. 



SCIENTIFIC AGRICULTURE. 



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Some of the resolutions which are being 

 introduced at this meeting and which, if 

 approved, will be presented at the Gen- 

 eral Convention in June, will provoke 

 considei-'able discussion. These resolu- 

 tions will be published in the next issue 

 of Scientific Agricvlture so that all mem- 

 bers may have an opportunity of consid- 

 ering them. 



Otliei* branches of the Society may well 

 take a lesson from their fellow-members 

 in British Columbia. 



Eastern Ontajrio Branch. 



On Monday, February 27th, this branch 

 gave a banquet at the Chateau Laurier, 

 Ottawa, at which the guest of honour and 

 principal speaker was the Hon. W. R. 

 Motherwell, Minister of Agriculture. Other 

 speakers w^ere Dr. J. H. Grisdale, Deputy 

 Minister and Mr. W. J. Bell, Principal 

 of the Agricultural School at Kemptville. 

 About fifty members were present. 



The annual business meeting was held 

 on Fridav, March 24th. 



NOTES. 



Wade Toole (O.A.C. 11), Professor of 

 Animal Husbandry at the Ontario Agri- 

 cultural College, is taking post graduate 

 work at the Iowa State College. 



Arthur Lamarre (Laval '20), has been 

 transferred from Drummondville to La- 

 prairie, P.Q., as District Agrieultiirist 

 (Agronome). 



John Tothill (O.A.C. '10), Officer in 

 Charge of the Dominion Entomological 

 Laboratory at Fredericton, N.B., has i-e- 

 cently been granted the degree of Doctor 

 of Science by Harvard University. 



Justus R. Miller (O.A.C. '14), is now 

 in the employ of the Ontario Department 

 of Agriculture as Agricultural Represen- 

 tative for Essex County. His address is 

 Essex, Ont. 



C. F. Bailey (O.A.C. '09), has resigned 

 as Managing Director of the Royal Agri- 

 cultural Winter Fair. His immediate 

 plans are not yet announced but a rumour 

 is abroad that he will soon be with the 

 Dominion Department of Agriculture. 



The death occurred at Ouelph on 

 Saturday, Februarv 25th, of Cecil R. 

 Oinck (O.A.C. '06), Specialist in 

 Plant Breeding at the Ontario Agri- 

 cultural College. Mr. Klinck, who 

 was a brother of President L. S. 

 Klinck of the University of British 

 Columbia, had been in poor health 

 for some years, but his death was 

 entirely unexpected. He was work- 

 ing actively until a few days before 

 he died. 



A memorial service was held at the 

 Disciples' Church, Guelph, on Sun- 

 day, February 26th, and burial took 

 place at Stouffville, Ontario, on the 

 28th. 



SECOND ANNUAL CONVENTION OF THE BRITISH COLUMBIA BRANCH. 



Vancouver, April 4 and 5, 1922. 



. . PROGRAMME 



Tuesday, April 4 



Morning Session — 9.30 a.m. 



Presidential Address. 

 Minutes. 



Business arising out of the Minutes. 

 Correspondence. 



Report of the Secretary-Treasurer. 

 Report of the Committee on Agricultural 

 Policies. 



The 



11 a.m. 

 Environment 



for Re- 



Address- 

 search ' ' 



By L.S. Klinck, M.S.A. D.Sc, President 

 of the University of British Columbia 

 and President of the Canadian Society 

 of Technical Agriculturists. 

 Discussions. 

 Afternoon Session — 2 p.m. 



Appointment of Committees on : — 

 Nominations. 

 Resolutions. 



