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EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 



9-10 EDWARD VII., A. 1910 



Rkcord of Sunshine at Fort Vermilion, i^eace Kiver District, Alberta, from May 1. 



1908; to March 31, 1909. 



* No returns for April, 1908, and during May a record of the first nineteen days 

 only was kept, owing to supply of cards for sunshine-recorder having run out. 



(Signed) WILLIAM T. ELLIS. 



CO-OPERATIVE EXPERIMENTS BY FARMERS THROUGHOUT CANADA. 



Another distribution was made this year from the Experimental Farms to 

 Canadian farmers of samples of seed of high quality for the improyemept of crops. 

 The object in view in this distribution was to ascertain by test the relative merits of 

 the different sorts under trial, as to qtiality, productiveness and earliuess in ripeninp-. 

 In conducting these trial plots, farmers everywhere have readily undertaken to co- 

 operate with the Experimental Farms and to report the results of their experiments. 

 These joint efforts have been productive of much good, and a great deal of information 

 has thus been gathered as to the suitability of these different varieties to the climatic 

 conditions prevailing in different parts of Canada. 



During the season of 1908 the number of Canadian farmers who have united in 

 these .experiments was 38,748. The value of this work in all parts of the Dominion 

 has been abundantly demonstrated. 



The samples sent from the Central Farm have weighed as follows: Wheat and 

 barley, five pounds each, and oats, four pounds, sufficient in each case to sow one- 

 twentieth of an acre. The samples of Indian corn, peas and potatoes have weighed 

 three pounds each. 



DISTRIBUTION OF SAMPLES BY PROVINCES. 



Total number of samples distributed, 35,335. 



