REPORT OF MR. 8. A. BEDFORD 453 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



PROPAGATION OF TKEES FOE DISTRIBUTION. 



Caraganas, Russian Poplars, Elms, and Willows, were grown for free distribution. 

 The Caraganas were propagated from seed. The seed was sown the same as garden 

 peas, in rows thirty inches apart, about one inch deep and about one inch apart in 

 the rows. Fresh gathered Elm seed was sown in shallow drills 12 inches apart and 

 covered with fine soil by means of a garden rake. 



PROPAGATION OF TREES FOR THE FORESTRY BRANCH OF THE DE- 

 PARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. 



Under your instructions some ten acres of land was set apart for the growing of 

 trees for the above department. 



The principal part of these were Native Ash-leaved Maples, grown from seed, 

 but a number of Elms and Willows were afco grown. 



The Maple seed was sown in drills three feet apart, the seeds touching each other 

 in the row. Most of the seed was soaked before sowing. In some instances the seed 

 was ploughed under, by striking out a furrow three inches deep and placing the seed 

 at the bottom of the furrow, and ploughing a second furrow over it. Adjoining rows 

 were struck out with a Planet Junior drill two inches deep, and the seed sown by 

 hand and the soil filled in with a rake. The rows covered with the plough produced 

 160 trees to the chain of row, and the rows filled in with rake 733 trees to the chain. 

 Either the ploughing was too deep, or else the soil when thrown in with a plough was 

 too hard and lumpy for the best results. Altogether 110,000 maples and elms were 

 grown from seed, and in addition seedling elms were collected from the natural bluffs 

 by the river side. 



SAMPLES FOR EXHIBITION PURPOSES. 



Five cases of samples were sent to the Glasgow Exhibition during the past year. 

 These were exhibited along with samples from the other Experimental Farms, and 

 received very favourable notices. 



Last fall an additional exhibit was prepared from the crop of 1901, and forwarded 

 to Glasgow; although not as extensive as the first exhibit, it gave a very fair idea of 

 the character of the past year's crop. 



On completion of the Dominion Government building on the Brandon fair 

 grounds this year, a very complete exhibit was prepared and installed therein, and the 

 display was greatly augmented by a tasty exhibit from the Central Experimental 

 Farm at Ottawa. 



A small collection of samples was sent to the Dominion Government agency in 

 Texas. 



A somewhat extensive display of Horticultural products was made at the Brandon 

 Horticultural Exhibition. 



NEW BREAKING. 



About three acres of pasture field which had been in Western Rye Grass for eight 

 years was broken up in the spring, thoroughly disc-harrowed, and at once re-sown 

 with Brome Grass seed in the proportion of fifteen pounds of seed per acre. A good 



