REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR 



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SESSIONAL PA'^ER No. 16 



VISITORS. 



The total number of visitors to the Farm during the year was about 2.fi.'^.'>. 



DISTRIBt'TIOX OF SAMPLES. 



While the distribution of all cereal samples is made from Ottawa, a large amount 

 of potatoes, vegetable and flower seeds and tree and shrub seedlings and cuttings 

 are distributed from this Farm to applicants in southern Saskatchewan each aeason. 

 Last year the distribution amounted to: Potatoes, 1,-2iM> packages; flower seeds, 184 

 packages; vegetable seeds, 144 packages; maple, ash and caragana seedlings, 1.247 

 packages. To in a bundle. 



S.iVLES OL' SKF.D GRAIN'. 



Last year an endeavour was made to supply a large number of applicants with 

 good seed grain. Wheat, oats, barley, flax and peas were sold in lots ranging from 

 1 bushel to bushels, with the result that the following grain was sold: Wheat, il^Hh 

 bushels; oats. 47 bushels; barley, 90 busliels; flax, 14 bu.shels ; peas, .30 bushels; fall 

 rye, 35 bushe.s. 



METEOROLOCaCAL RECDUDS. 



Reckoning 10 inches ot sin-wfall as equivalent to 1 inch of rainfall, the total ])re- 

 cipitation for the >ear ending JMarrli ."U, 1914, was 28 -o") inches. 



EXPEK I. MENTAL STATION FOR CENTRAL SASKATCHEWAN. 



RiXSTHERN, SaSK, 



CIIARA( TKR OF Till-'. SEASON. 



The precipitation was lower in 191.3 than in 1012 or 1911, liut was more evenly 

 distriliuted throughout the season, which developed a much more even growth in the 

 grain crops than occurred in 1912. Coupled with this was the fact that in 191:3 there 



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