DiriSIOX OF CEREALS 799 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 ^ 



SEED GRAiy. 



A largo portion of tlie Farm is devoted to the production of seed. Below is a 

 summary of the amount produced tliis season : — 



Su:M:y[Ai!Y OF Cue? Production*^ 1913. 



Spring wheat — Bush. Lbs. 



Registered Marquis 1,348 35 



Marciuis '. 54S 40 



Red Fife 904 10 



rrelude 273 35 



I'ioneer 4 i 



Numlieied sorts 1^'^ 



Oats- 

 Banner 2,205 14 



Ligowo, Swedish 31 i.' 



Abundance 396 21 



Barley — 



Manchurian 1,671 34 



O. A. C. No. 21 1''2 1!> 



Canadian Thorpe. 



247 34 



Flax— 



Pi.emost '^9 46 



^""^A^'thur 350 40 



Winter wheat ^ 



Wintfr Ryfc 66 



SITII'MKNT TO OTTAW.V. 



Seed of all the ahove crop.-; is distributed in free samples by the Dominion Cereal- 

 ist at Ottawa. To augment this supply a carload of seed is, shipped to him from this 

 farm, 'i'his season it consisted of: Wheat, 415 bushels; oats, 483 bushels; barley. Ifi2 

 bushels; poa.>, l^A bushels. 



SEED SOLD. 



If a larger qu.antity of seed is required than that supplied from Ottawa it may 

 be purchased from the Indian Head Farm, by farmers residing in southern Sashatche- 

 wan, in lots of 1 to 4 bushels. Last season the following quantities of grain were sold: 

 Fall rye, 35 bushels; peas, 30 bushels; flax, 14 bushels; oats, 47 bushels; Prelude wheat, 

 24 bushels; Eegistered Marquis wheat, 111^ bushels; Pted Fife wheat, 103 bushels; 

 barley, 96 bushels. 



In all 141 farmers Avere supplied with seed grain of the above crops. 



FREE DISTIJIBUTIOX. 



Potatoes are distributed free from the Indian Head Farm in lots of three pounds 

 to each applicant. Each recipient of a sample undertakes to test the potatoes on his 

 farm, with a variety already grown, and report to tlie Superintendent in the fall. A 

 large number of farmers take advantage of this offer. Last year 3,798 pounds of 

 potatoes, including nineteen varieties, were sent out. This means that 1,260 fai-mers 

 were supplied with new varieties of potatoes. 



ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 



I desire to express my appreciation and thanks to Angus MacKay, my predecessor; 

 K. McBean, my assistant ; John Waddell, my foreman ; and Geo. Lang, my book-keeper, 

 for their assistance in collecting and compiling the above data. 



16—52^ Indlvn Head. 



