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greatly over the previous year, reaching the 400 mark on August 21, when four 

 Institutes arrived on the same day. The number of visitors recorded during the 

 year was 6,906. 



EXHIBITIONS AND SEED FAIRS. 



The Station exhibits at the county fairs and the provincial exhibition were 

 much larger than on previous years and attracted much favourable comment. A 

 display was made at the first Annual Flower Show on August 28 and 29. This 

 show proved to be a great success. It was held by the Floral Association of Prince 

 EdAvard Island, and tJie interest in improving the residences and parks of the towais 

 pnd thii homesteads in the coimtry is quite marked. The Superintendent judged at 

 the fall exhibitions and the seed fairs held during the winter. 



AGRICULTURAL MEETINGS. 



The Superintendent gave addresses at the fall exhibitions and at the seed fairs 

 and at as many institute meetings as time permitted. Many farmers were visited 

 personally in different sections of the province, and farm work discussed. 



Instruction was given in Field Husbandry to the students taking the Short 

 Course in Agriculture held at Charlottetown during the first part of January, 

 1914, and at the several Short Courses in Household Science on the ' Improvement 

 of the Farm Home.' 



At the request of the different Boards of T'rade, the Superintendent gave illus- 

 trated lectures in Charlottetown and Summerside on 'Landscape Gardening ' and 

 the 'Improvement of . the Home Grounds.' 



CONVENTIONS AND ASSOCIATIONS, 



The Superintendent attended the various agricultural conventions and associa.- 

 tion meetings in the province; the Nova Scotia Fruit Growers' Association at 

 Kentville, JST.S., and the associations held in connection with the Maritime Winter 

 Fair at Amherst, N.S. 



DISTRIBUTION OF SEED POTATOES?- AND SALE OF SEED GRAIN. 



Thirteen samples of potatoes were sent out in April; ten lots of Banner oats 

 and three lots of barley were sold to farmers for seed purposes in the spring of 

 1913. A quantity of Banner oats has been registered with the Canadian Seed 

 Growers' Association and sealed by their inspector and will be sold to the farmer3 

 in the spring of 1914. 



