REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR 5 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



PUBLICATIONS ISSUED DURING THE YEAE. 



During the year ending March 31, 1914, the following publications have been 

 issued or are in the press at its close: — 



The Annual Report of the Dominion Experimental Earms for the year 1912-13. 



In the Regular Series of bulletins: — 



No. 73, Smut Diseases of Cultivated Plants, their Cause aud Control,-- by the 

 Dominion Botanist, Mr. H. T. Giissow. This bulletin treats of the smuts of barley, 

 corn, oats, wheat, millet, and broom com, suggests treatments to prevent the sowing 

 of infected seed, methods of cleaning and disinfecting separators used in the thre.-h- 

 ing of smutty grain, etc., etc. 



Nos. 74, 75, 76 and 77 give, in a summarized form, the results of the season's 

 work in cereals, field husbandly, forage plants and horticulture, respectively. These 

 bulletins were prepared by the officers in charge of those divisions of the work at the 

 Central Farm, in collaboration with the Supeanntendents of the branch Earms and 

 Stations. 



It is planned to continue this series of crop bulletins year by year in the 

 endeavour to place in the farmer's hands, in time to be of use to him in his 

 next year's operations, the results of the season's work throughout the Experimental 

 Farms system. 



In the Second Series of bulletins, there were issued : — 



No. 15, on Preparing Land for Grain Crops on the Prairies. This was com- 

 piled by myself from data furnished by the Superintendents of our western Farms 

 and Stations. It is primarily intended to be an aid to the new settler, and special 

 arrangements have been made to render it available to those taking up our western 

 lands. 



No. 16, How to tell the Age of Hens and Pigeons, by Mr. Victor Fortier, of the 

 Poultry Division, explains the details of a system for the above purpose, discovered 

 by the author, and practised by him for some years with success in his work of judg- 

 ing poultry at exhibitions. 



No. 17, entitled Forest Insect Conditions in British Columbia: A preliminary 

 Survey, by Mr. J. M. Swaine, M.Sc, B.S.A., Assistant Entomologist for Fore^ 

 Insects, gives some results of the author's investigations into forest conditions and 

 the depredations of forest insects in British Columbia. This work was undertaken 

 at the request of the Provincial Government of that province, and will be continued 

 during the coming year. 



No. 18, on the Strawberry Root Weevil in British Columbia, was prepared by 

 Mr. R. C. Treherne, B.S.A., Field Officer of the Division of Entomology. Tie 

 author has been stationed in British Columbia for some time and has had an excel- 

 lent opportunity of studying at first hand some of its injurious insects. 



Of Circulars, two have been issued by the Division of Botany and one by the 

 Division of Entomology. 



No. 4, of the first-named Division, was prepared by the Dominion Botanist, Mr. 

 H. T. Giissow, assisted by Mr. A. E. Kellett, artist in the Division of Entomology, 

 and is entitled Potato Diseases transmitted by the use of Unsound Seed Potatoes. 

 It was brought out as a poster in colours, giving finely executed illustrations of 

 potatoes affected with the diseases treated of, and was designed especially for hang- 

 ing up in public places, such as schools and post oflices, throughout the country. 



Circular No. 5, by Mr. J. W. Eastham, Assistant Dominion Botanist, treats 

 of the Powdery Scab of Potatoes. 



Circular No. 3 of the Division of Entomology, entitled the Chinch Bug m 

 Ontario, gives the results of an eJiamination of the infested areas in that province, 

 carried on by Mr. H. F. Hudson, Field Officer in the above Division. 



