REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR 59 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



Bates of seeding com for silage. — ^All the com grown for silage for three years 

 has been weighed, and the following figures are interesting: — 



In hills 42 inches in every direction. 5 tons 1,364 pounds per acre 



VARrETY TESTS. 



The trial plots are now permanently located on a piece of uniform soil where 

 a three-year rotation is used : Roots and Indian com for the Agrostologist, grain for 

 the Cerealist, and hay for the experiment with different quantities of seed and to 

 find the best nurse crop. 



Roots. — Fourteen varieties of turnips (swedes), eleven of mangels, three of 

 sugar beets, and six of carrots were tried on duplicate plots of one-fiftieth acre 

 each. There were two check rows at the ends and also between each kind of root, 

 so that no variety had more room or light than any other one. 



Indian corn. — -The three best yielding varieties for silage were, this year: Ninety 

 Day, Salzer's jSTorth Dakota, and White Cap Yellow Dent. 



Cereals. — Fourteen varieties of spring wheat, four of 2-row barley, seven of 

 6-row barley, ten of oats, and six of pea? were sown on one-sixtieth acre plots. 



Vegetables. — Three hundred and sixty-four varieties of vegetables were tested 

 in 1913. 



S^cd groiving. — ^We have grown seed from many varieties of beans, corn, 

 cucumber, lettuce, musk melon, peas, pt'ppers, radish, squash, tomatoes, water 

 melon, and there seems to be no reason why we cannot grow seed of nearly all the 

 vegetables used in this district. 



Ornamental gardening. — Twenty-five varieties of conifers, 109 of deciduous 

 trees and shrubs, 47 of roses, and over GOO of perennials, annuals and bulbs were 

 grown in 1913, and notes were taken of each variety. We distributed over 1,400 

 packages of seed and as many plants of perennials. At Quebec Exhibition, we made 

 a display of flowers and were awarded a diploma and gold medal for same. 



IMPROVEilENTS. 



dealing of land. — About 15 acres were stumped and ploughed during 1913 ready 

 to i)ut under crop in 1914. 



Drainage. — Over 32,000 feet or more than 6 miles in length, of tiles were laid 

 ill 1913. iSTothing smaller thar. 3-inch is used, as it has been found that the 2-inch 

 will clog very easily. The ditching machine was used, and with a careful man to run 

 it better work can be done with it than by hand. 



Horse ham. — What is probably the best horse barn in Eastern Canada was built 

 during the autumn and eSrly winter. It is 102 feet by 32 feet with an L 26 feet 

 by 20 feet. The foundations and floor are concrete, it has a plank frame, and the 

 roof is metal. There are sixteen tie and eight box-stalls, with different floorings of 

 clay, cork, brick, wood and concrete to see which suits our conditions best. The 

 system of ventilation is the Rutherford. Hay is brought down tu each mangei" 

 in chutes, whilst bedding comes through the ventilating shafts. There are twenty- 

 eight windows, and those of the ground floor are placed at 7 feet, so that whilst 

 the stable is very well lighted, there is no direct glare to hurt the horses' eyes. A 

 hay fork serves to bring in the hay. and a carrier to take out manure. There is a 

 grod harness room, a feed room, and a granary above these. 



With nine paddocks of from one to one and a half acres each having a neat, 

 well-painted shed, and a stud of the best French Canadian mares which could be 



