
 
     YEAR BOOK 53 
     
    
     DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
     
    
     Hon. Murdoch MacKinnon - - Commissioner of Agriculture 
     
     Theodore Ross, B. A. - - - - - Secretary for Agriculture. 
     
     W. R. Reek, B. S. A. - - Director of Agricultural Instruction 
     
     W. J. Reid, B. S. A. - - - - Instructor in Animal Husbandry 
     
     Wilifred Davison, B. S. A. - - Instructor in Field Husbandry 
     
    
     (Absent on Military Service.) 
     
     j. Leslie Tennant, B. S. A. - District Representative for King's 
     
    
     County 
     
    
     Miss Hazel Sterns - - - - Supervisor Women’s Institutes 
     
     Miss Adele Gordon - - Assistant Supervisor Women’s Institutes 
     
     Miss Alberta McFarlane - Asst. Supervisor Women’s Institutes 
     
     Charles Buxton - - - - - - - - Instructor in Agriculture 
     
     Leslie Adams - - - - . - - - Instructor in Agriculture 
     
     Walter Curtis - - - - - - - - Instructor in Agriculture 
     
     Wm. Cain - - - - - - - - - Instructor in Agriculture 
     
     Daniel Fraser - - - - - - - - Instructor in Agriculture 
     
     FEDERAL OFFICIALS. 
     
    
     Dr. Pethick - - - - - - - - Health of Animal Branch 
     
    
     Harvey Mitchell - - - - - Dairy and Cold Storage Branch 
     
     Wm. Kerr, B. S. A., - - Live Stock Branch, Poultry Division 
     
    
     The Department of Agriculture was organized in the year 
     
     1901. The ﬁrst commissioner was Hon. Benjamin Rogers, who 
     
     was in ofﬁce from 1901 to 1904. Then followed Hon. Samuel 
     
     Reid who was commissioner from 1904 to 1908. Then the Hon. 
     
     John Richards ﬁlled the ofﬁce from 1908 to 1911. The Hon. 
     
     Murdoch MacKinnon took ofﬁce on the 2nd of December, 1911. 
     
    
     The Secretaries were Mr. Ewen McMillan, B. S. A., from 
     
    
     1901 to 1904; Mr. John C. Ready, B. S. A., from 1904 to 1906, 
     
     and Mr. Theodore Ross, B. A. from 1906.