that statistics relating to the supply of human food should be as trustworthy 

 as practical results and most modern methods can make them. Varying 

 changes have taken place regarding the economic conditions prevailing 

 throughout the world during the nineteenth century, and in the Dominion 

 of Canada, and more especially in the Province of British Columbia, the 

 economic revolution is still in progress. Everybody is interested in the wealth 

 and resources of the Province, no matter in what walk of life their duties lie, 

 and the information such as it is hoped will be obtained and disseminated 

 from time to time by the Statistics Branch will be of paramount importance 

 to the public at large, though more especially so to the agricultural com- 

 munity. 



ALBERT E. CRADDOCK, 



Secretary and Statistician. 



