54 PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND

The expenditures of the Department since its organization have been :

1901 ........................................... $ *3,265.99 .1902 ............................................. 10,251.17 1903 ............................................ 7,393.85 1904 ............................................ 9,950.37 1905 ............................................ 10,220.17 1906 ........................................ ....T8,5o7.69 1907 ............................................. *4,180 19 1908. ......................................... 11,911.19 1909 ............................................. 12,538.21 1910 ................................... ....13,694.63 1911 ........................................... 15,545.96 1912 ................................. ... .124,345.02 1913 ............................................. 17,496.30 1914 ............................................. 16,554.89 1915 ............................................. 22,942.40

1’F0r nine months ending September 30th. l"N0 grant to exhibitions. IFifteen months includes exhibition grants for two years.

RECORD OF YEAR 1915

Unprecedented efforts were made in' the year 1915 for the promotion of Agriculture throughout the Province. In addition to unusually liberal grants to that end by the Provincial Legisla- ture, the Parliament of Canada donated to the Province, under the Act which authorizes the Minister of Agriculture to expend $10,000,000 as a special incentive towards improvement in Agri- culture throughout all Canada. the sum of $29,138. 28 for expendi- ture in P. E. Island during the year, 1915. This money was upon certain conditions, placed at the disposal of the Provincial Government represented by the Commissioner of Agriculture, the Hon. Murdoch McKinnon. A plan of operations had been adopt- ed. Experts in the various Departments of Agriculture and Horticulture were obtained. Short Courses in Agriculture at- tended by 220 farmers were held. A Long Course in Agriculture was also supplied. Visits were made by the experts to every section of the Province. Lectures and demonstrations attended by large numbers of farmers were held, and the new methods proposed were explained, demonstrated, discussed, and