. A guide to the experimental farms and stations ... orrespondence relating toall branches of agriculture has been carried on both from theCentral and the branch Farms. The officers of the former andthe Superintendents of the latter have also given out muchinformation by addressing farmers meetings and lecturing atShort Courses in connection with some of our Agricultural Col-leges and Societies. VALUE AND PURPOSE OF BRANCH FARMS. During the quarter of a century since their establishment,a period which has seen such rapid settlement and developmentia this country, especially in the western prov
. A guide to the experimental farms and stations ... orrespondence relating toall branches of agriculture has been carried on both from theCentral and the branch Farms. The officers of the former andthe Superintendents of the latter have also given out muchinformation by addressing farmers meetings and lecturing atShort Courses in connection with some of our Agricultural Col-leges and Societies. VALUE AND PURPOSE OF BRANCH FARMS. During the quarter of a century since their establishment,a period which has seen such rapid settlement and developmentia this country, especially in the western provinces, the Experi-mental Farms have increased in number and have enlarged thesphere of the work carried on. One great cause of this expansion, other than the need ofnewly-settled districts for some such institution within easy reach,has been the fact that each section of the country opened to thesettler has presented new problems, possible of solution only byexperimental work carried on in that locality. The increased 12 DOMINION EXPKRIMKNTAL FARMS. fi DOMINION EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 13 complexity and number of the questions studied are also, to agreat extent, the result of the educative influence of the Farmsthemselves and to the greater interest in correct methods of farm-ing which they have helped to arouse among the farmers of tendency towards better farming is very clearly seen in theprairie provinces, where the settler, from regarding the soil merelyas a mine of fertility to be exhausted in the production of a yearlycrop of wheat, is coming to realize that a system of crop rotationor mixed farming, including the keeping of live stock, means thepreservation of the crop-producing power of the land, the eradica-tion of weeds and the fair certainty of a yearly revenue. Theteaching of this is being given especial emphasis by the Experi-mental Farm system and much of the testing of varieties donehas been with a view of obtaining hardy, early-maturing sorts ofcereals, fo
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