REPORT OF MR. G. H. HUTTOti 507 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



CANXAS. 



The following varieties of cannas were received and planted, the only one of the 

 lot blooming being the William Saunders, which flowered August 29. 



3. Mrs. Kate Gray, 6. Indiana, 



6. Wyoming, 3. Queen Charlotte, 



7. Pennsylvania, 6. America, 

 5. Louisiana, 4. Captain, 



3. Miss Berthine B runner, 3. King Humbert, 



4. Rubin, 2. William Saunders, 

 4. New York, 3. Jupiter. 



DAHLIAS, TULIPS AND CROCUS. 



The tulips and crocus did not amount to anything, very few growing in the spring 

 and only one or two blooms being produced, these being the variety Cottage Maid 

 (Tulip). The following dabHas were received and planted: — 



Flossie, Wm. Agnew, 



Cannall's Gem, Ernest Glasse, 



Lady H. Grosvenor, Grand Duke Alexis, 



Capstan. Earl of Pembroke, 



Standard Bearer, Empress of India, 



Wm. Pearce, Cycle, 



Austan Cannell, Mrs. Moore, 



Gloriosa, Highland Queen. 



Evadne. Cuban Giant, 



Blue Oban, Sylvia, 



Kynesith, Bon Ton. 



A large collection of tulips were planted for bloom in 1911. 



ROSES. 



Twenty-two varieties of roses were received from the Central Experimental Farm 

 in the spring of 1910 and planted in the perennial border. One of the hybrid perpetuals 

 bloomed remarkably well, commencing July 12. 



CATTLE. 



Two registered Jersey heifer calves were purchased in July from B. H. Bull & 

 Sons, of Brampton, Ont. These animals were winners of the first and second prizes 

 ut the Calgary Exhibition and are promising youngsters. The other two grade dairy 

 cattle have done well during the year. 



FEEDING FOR BEEF. 



Last fall a carload of cattle were purchased with the object of feeding them during 

 the winter, and securing further cost data relative to feeding cattle. In the winter of 

 1909-10 the first car fed gave good returns, showing an average profit on the eighteen 

 head sold of $16.97 and made frozen wheat worth $1.28 J per bushel when marketed as 

 beef, which, had it been marketed in the fall as grain, would have brought only 35 

 rents per bushel. The average profit is higher this year, though the cost of 100 lbs. 

 ;;ain is also higher. The increase in cost of producing gain may be because grain fed 

 this year was sound and therefore chargeable against the cattle at full market price, 

 and also due in part to the poor quality of hay which was fed. 



