| | As stated in the opening page, the work of the year has been one largely of organization. The office staff at the beginning of the year consisted of four clerks and the Deputy. At the close of the year the total number employed regularly by the Department had reached twenty-seven. Early in the year the Medical Health Officer was appointed, later came the taking over of the creameries previously operated by the Dominion Government. Arrangements were made at that time for the services of Mr. Marker, who had charge of the work, though his actual work under the Government did not begin until the first day of May. In the meantime he completed the winter work of the creameries begun under the Dominion Government and made arrangements for opening all creameries for the summer's work under Provincial management. Arrangements were also made with the Federal Department of Agriculture to occupy the cold storage building and creamery at Calgary. The accounting, hitherto done at Ottawa, had also to be provided for and increased space was secured for the enlarged staff under Mr. Marker's direction. The services of Mr. Archibald Mitchell, of Macleod, as Chief Inspector of Weeds was arranged for and he began work in April. In due order followed the organization of the work of the Chief Stock Inspector, the Recorder of Brands, and the Chief Game Guardian, and the appointment of suitable men to superintend the work, particulars of which is given in connection with the report of each. The work of collecting crop statistics occasioned a great deal of work, not only in securing suitable men to act as informants, but also in securing a correct list of threshers and obtaining correct returns from them once their name was known. As already mentioned, the system of recording births, marriages . and deaths, has been revised and all these events, since the beginning of things so far as this Province is concerned, have been reindexed. This has occasioned a great amount of checking and rechecking of records in order to obtain a reliable foundation for the new record columns. A clerk has been placed in charge of all the statistical work to be known as the statistician.
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