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who are in constant communication with the Director and chief officers 

 at the Central Farm, by whom the principal lines of investigation, with 

 details of procedure, are laid down. 



In addition to the foregoing, experimental work is carried on at a 

 number of sub-stations, as at Fort Vermilion, on the Peace River, at 

 Kamloops, and at Salmon Arm, British Columbia, and at Forts Smith, 

 Resolution and Providence, towards the northerly limits of our agricul- 

 tural areas. 



It would not be possible in the course of this address to enter into 

 any detailed account of the work of the chief officers at the Central Farm 

 — the supervision and management of the whole system by the Director, 

 the planning of experiments in field crops by the Field Husbandman, and 

 with animals by the Animal Husbandman, the testing of varieties and 

 the selection and breeding of new cereals and their distribution by the 

 Cerealist, the improvement of our grasses and fodder crops by the Agros- 

 tologist — the investigatory work with all classes of fruits and vegetables, 

 including the originating and propagation of good varieties suited to the 

 climatic conditions prevailing in the different parts of our Dominion, and 

 the study of forestry problems by the Horticulturist — the feeding and 

 care of poultry for eggs and marketable birds by the Poultry Manager — 

 the thousand and one problems requiring chemical investigation for their 

 solution coming within the purview of the Chemist, with soils and the 

 economic maintenance of their fertility, with manures and fertilisers, 

 with fodder crops and all classes of stock foods, with spraying materials 

 for the control of insect and fungus pests, with cultural methods for the 

 conservation of soil moisture, with farm water supplies, and with a host 

 of other questions, for the Chemist's work is intimately interwoven with 

 that of all the divisions of agricultural research — the investigatory work 

 of the Botanist and Bacteriologist, whose studies are more particularly 

 with a view to the control and extermination of those vegetable organisms 

 which if allowed to propagate, would do enormous damage in our orchards 

 and to other farm crops, and, finally, the equally important work of the 

 Entomologist, who has the administration of the Destructive Insect and 

 Pest Act, and whose constant study and care is to prevent or control 

 the ravages of those injurious insects which, if permitted to flourish, 

 would disastrously affect our fruit and forest trees, our field and garden 

 crops, our farm live stock and even man himself. For all this I must refer 

 you to the twenty-six annual reports of the Experimental Farms and the 

 numerous bulletins issued by the Farm during the past quarter of a 

 century. Or if you wish a more succinct account I can refer you to a 

 "Guide to the Experimental Farms and Stations", issued two months 

 ago, which contains a very readable outline of our varied activities. 



