REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR 



55 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



DISTRIBUTION OF SAMPLES OF SEED GRAIN, ETC., TO FARMERS FOR 



TRIAL. 



Another distribution was made in the spring of 1901, consisting of samples 

 of the most promising sorts of oats, spring wheat, barley, pease, Indian corn and 

 potatoes. By the careful growing of one of these samples, the product will soon be 

 sufficient to sow a large area, and thus in a short time the farmer can provide himself 

 with some of the best sorts, without cost beyond that of his own labour. From the 

 large number of appreciative letters received from farmers who have had these samples 

 and have grown from them the seed grain they are now vising on their farms, it is evi- 

 dent that this branch of the work of the experimental farms is doing a vast amount of 

 good, and is rapidly accomplishing the object for which it was instituted, namely, the 

 general introduction among farmers throughout the Dominion of the best and most 

 productive sorts of these important farm crops. Another proof of the appreciation in 

 which this distribution is held is the very large demand each year for such samples. 



The samples sent out from the Central Experimental Farm during the early 

 months of 1901 were distributed as follows : — 



Total number of samples distributed 25,279 



Number of applicants supplied 25,231 



The following list shows the number of 3-pound packages of the different varieties 

 which have been sent out : — 



Name of Variety. 



Oats. 



Improved Ligowo 



Banner 



Siberian 



American Beauty. 

 Golden Beauty. . . 



Bavarian 



Abundance 



Wide Awake 



Bonanza 



White. Schonen . . . 



Tartar King 



Waverley 



G'>ldfiuder 



Total 8.1S8 



2,325 



1,1 SI 



1,115 



897 



798 



795 



403 



354 



120 



103 



91 



3 



3 



Name of Variety. 



Baulky. 

 Six-rowed. 



Mensury .. 



Royal. 



Odessa 



Oderbruch 



° I 



■~ 5P 



Tuo roiccd. 



Sidney 



Canadian Thorpe. 

 French Chevalier. 



Total 2,193 



840 

 566 

 228 

 117 



354 

 58 

 30 



