REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR 



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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



Tree and shrub seedlings, 329 packages containing 75 trees each. 

 Express parcels containing trees and shrubs, 15, of 50 trees each. 

 Crab-apple and plum seedlings, 60 packages containing 12 trees each. 

 Rhubarb roots, 96 packages containing 6 roots each. 



Inoculated soil: — 201 packages of 100 lbs. each were taken from one of the old 

 alfalfa fields, and shipped to residents in the province, the applicants 

 paying freight charges and cost of bag. 



VISITORS. 



During the past summer, 2,2-34 men, women and children visited the Farm. A 

 good many were from the town, and walked or drove through the grounds on Sun- 

 days. The students from Regina College paid the Farm a visit on June 22, and the 

 Normal School students from Eegina, about 150 in number, visited the Farm pn 

 September 12. No excursions were run to the Farm last year on account of having no 

 large buildings in case of rain. 



METEOROLOGICAL RECORDS. 



* Reckoning ten inches of snowfall as equivalent to one inch of rainfall, the total precipitation for 

 the year ending March 31, 1913, was 18.55 inches. 



EXPERIMENTAL STATION FOR CENTRAL SASKATCHEWAN 



ROSTHERN, SASK. 



WEATHER CONDITIONS, 1912-13. 



The season opened under normal and favourable conditions, and seeding was 

 begun on April 10. All crops made good growth until early in June, when dry weather 

 set in, crops that had not a goodly supply of soil moisture suffered greatly, and 

 even those under the most favourable conditions suffered to a very appreciable extent. 

 Showery weather prevailed until nearly the middle of May, and hay crops especially 



