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question as to which is the best one to use, and to what amount, will not be arrived 

 at for some time. 



Experience has .-hown that nitrogenous fertilizers of all kinds should only be 

 employed with great care in the growing of yellow tobacco. These will hardly ever 

 succeed in our latitude, even on hind best suited for their production, except during 

 warm seasons, not too moist, especially towards the time of coming to maturity or 

 yellowing in the field. The growth of the plant should be rapid at the first and 

 should stop early in August. One should, therefore, stop cultivating work about the 

 end of July, confining himself, after that, to suckering and ridding the plants of 

 caterpillars according to the need. 



The demand for tobaccos of the Virginia type, cured by the flue-curing process, 

 becomes each year greater, and this in spite of the fact that the ideal colour is far 

 from being reached. We hope to make a step in advance in 1913 in trying some 

 varieties imported from a region where the climate is more similar to that of 

 Ontario than of Virginia. The curing of the hurleys at the Harrow Station was 

 normal. These tobaccos were sold in December, 1912, at 12 cents a pound, the 

 highest market price for the season. 



FERMENTATION OF THE 1912 CROP. 



Most of the tobaccos from the Station at St. Jacques l'Achigan and at Farnham 

 were transported to Ottawa for fermentation. The Farnham tobacco was sorted at 

 the Experimental Farm, Ottawa, by young girls paid according to the amount of 

 work done by each. This has proven much more satisfactory than employing 

 masculine labour for this purpose. The bulks built up on February 28 and March 1 

 fermented naturally, higher temperatures being reached than those of the previous 

 year. The first turning' over was done on March 19 and March 26, showing tobaccos 

 of a good texture, of colour relatively clear, and of good aroma. Had it not been 

 for the hail which destroyed the greater part of the tobacco crop at Farnham we 

 should have been able to provide the manufacturers with a very high-class leaf. 



DISTRIBUTION OF SHEDS. 



The samples of tobacco seed distributed by the Tobacco Division contain about 

 one-fourth of an ounce of selected and cleaned seed. The number of samples furnished 

 by the different Stations was as follows : — 



Comstock Spanish (Experimental Farm) 3,354 



Comstock Spanish (St. Jacques) 120 



Oanelle (Experimental Farm) 730 



White Burley (Harrow) 731 



Montmelian (Experimental Farm') 125 



Big Havana (Experimental Farm) ' 12 



Moro Petiole (Experimental Farm) 3 



Moro Sessile (Experimental Farm) 2 



The number of samples distributed amounted to — 



Comstock Spanish 1,965 



Canelle 777 



White Burley 454 



Miscellaneous 349 



3,545 



I have the honour to be, sir. 



Your obedient servant, 



F. CHARLAN, 

 Chief of the Tobacco Division. 



