DIVISION OF TOBACCO 997 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



will be merely remarked here, in passing, that considerable improvements were made on 

 the Farnham Station during the year. The chief were the putting up of fencing, the 

 drainage of a considerable area and the clearing of the central part of the Station. 



The harvesting of the crop and its placing in the curing shed was made the 

 subject of an experiment which will probably be concluded in the autumn of 1914. 



The comparatively early frost of September 15 destroyed what promised to be an 

 abundant harvest of choice seed at Farnham, especially of the hybrids Yamaska and 

 Big Ohio X Sumatra, which had been re-selected- 



The harvest at St. Jacques I'Achigan, although saved before the frost, was insuffi- 

 ciently developed and somewhat too thick in texture for use as wrappers. The 

 plantations of this Station suffered more from drought from the fact that the by-laws 

 of the municipality of Maisonneuve prevented us from getting, at the time desired, 

 the manure from the abattoir, which we generally use each spring. 

 I have the honour to be, sir, 



Your obedient servant, 



F. CHARLAN, 

 Dominion Tohacco Husbandman. 



