13 EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 



2 GEORGE V., A. 1912 



Many of the letters received by the Director are applications for samples of seed 

 grain or for the publications issued by the Experimental Farms; most of these are 

 answered by mailing the material asked for, accompanied in most instances by circular 

 letters. This will explain why the number of letters received by that officer so much 

 exceeds the number sent out. 



DISTRIBUTION OF REPORTS, BULLETINS AND CIRCULAR LETTERS. 



Reports and Bulletins mailed 242,470 



Circulars and letters relating to samples of seed grain . . 44,624 



BRANCH EXPERIMENTAL FARMS AND STATIONS. 



The correspondence conducted by the Superintendents of the Branch Experi- 

 mental Farms and Stations is also large, as is shown by the following figures: — 



Letters Letters 



Received. SeDt. 



Experimental Station, Charlottetown, P.E.I. 532 500 



" Farm, Nappan, N.S 2,536 2,212 



" Station, Cap Rouge, P.Q 390 510 



" Farm, Brandon, Man 3,545 3,394 



" Farm, Indian Head, Sask 10,191 9,974 



" Station, Rosthern, Sask 396 342 



" Station, Lethbridge, Alta 2,600 2,380 



" Station, Lacombe, Alta 3,710 3,591 



" Farm, Agassiz, B.C 4,983 4,869 



28,883 27,772 



Much additional information has also been sent out from the branch Farms and 

 Stations by printed circulars. By adding the correspondence conducted at the 

 Branches to that of the Central Farm, the total number of letters received is found 

 to be 111,178 and of those sent out 71,149. 



BULLETINS AND PAMPHLETS ISSUED DURING THE YEAR 



ENDING MARCH 31, 1911. 



In addition to reprints of Bulletins No. 47, Trees and Shrubs tested in Manitoba 

 and the Northwest Territories, and No. 49, the Potato and its Culture, four new 

 bulletins were issued during the year — 



Bulletin No. 66 of the Experimental Farm series was prepared by the Dominion 

 Cerealist, Dr. C. E. Saunders. This treats of the results obtained on all the Dominion 

 Experimental Farms from trial plots of grain, fodder corn, field roots and potatoes, 

 in 1910, and is the sixteenth issue of this publication. The average results obtained 

 for the last five years are also given of those varieties which have been long under 

 trial and these records are arranged in the order of their yield. These trial plots are 

 conducted with the object of gaining information as to the relative productiveness of 

 the different sorts tested and their earliness in ripening in the different climates of 

 Canada. The returns show much variation in the weight and earliness of the crops 

 grown, and point to the importance of care in the choice of varieties of seed for sowing. 



