14 EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 



2 GEORGE V., A. 1912 



'A large, air-tight, ventilating shaft connects the stable ceiling with the cupola 

 on the roof; this will carry off the impure air from the stable. Four cold air inlets, 

 two on each side of the stable, provided with shut-offs, will cause a circulation of pure 

 air. 



' The west of the lower part of the barn will be used to keep wagons, sleighs, 

 implements, etc., in. A driveway twelve feet wide, with roller doors on each side, 

 divides the stable from the wagon house. The barn, like the house, is constructed of 

 good material. The foundation is of concrete cement fourteen inches thick, goes 

 down three feet into the ground and rests on two foot wide footings. The barn is 

 securely anchored into the foundations with twenty iron rods three and a half feet 

 long. The height of the foundation above the ground level is about eighteen inches. 



I have the honour to be, sir, 



Your obedient servant, 



(Sgd.) DUNCAN ANDERSON. 



On March 1, 1911, Mr. R. E. Everest was appointed Superintendent of the Experi- 

 mental Station at Scott, and entered upon his duties without delay. He has pur- 

 chased horses and the necessary implements for carrying on the work and expects to 

 have some crops to report on as the results of next season's work. Mr. Everest has 

 had experience on some of the best farms in Ontario, is a graduate of the Ontario 

 College of Agriculture at Guelph, and has had two years' experience in the Canadian 

 Northwest a3 foreman on the Experimental Station at Lacombe under Mr. G. H. 

 ITutton. 



CO-OPERATIVE EXPERIMENTS BY FARMERS THROUGHOUT CANADA. 



Another distribution was made this year from the Experimental Farms of samples 

 of seed of high quality for the improvement of crops. The object in view in this 

 distribution is to ascertain by test the relative merits of the different sorts under 

 trial, as to quality, productiveness and earliness in ripening. In conducting these 

 trial plots, farmers everywhere have readily undertaken to co-operate with the Experi- 

 mental Farms and to report the results of their experiments. These joint efforts have 

 been productive of much good and a great deal of information has thus been gathered 

 as to the suitability of these different varieties to the climatic conditions prevailing 

 in different parts of Canada. 



During the season of 1910, the number of Canadian farmers who have united in 

 these experiments was 43,385. The value of this work in all part3 of the Dominion 

 has been abundantly demonstrated. 



A change was made this year in the system of distributing samples; these, with the 

 exception of potatoes, are now sent out from the Central Farm, and all applications 

 for samples should be addressed to the Dominion Cerealist, Central Experimental 

 Farm, Ottawa. The regular distribution of samples of grain from the Branch Experi- 

 mental Farms has been discontinued, and the surplus grain grown there will be sold 

 in lots of one bushel or more, to farmers for seed purposes. 



The samples sent out from the Central Farm have weighed as follows: — Wheat 

 and barley, five pounds each, and oats four pounds, sufficient in each case to sow one- 

 twentieth of an acre. The samples of Indian corn, peas and potatoes have weighed 

 three pounds each. 



