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Page. 

 Bedford, S. A., Superintendent, Experimen- 

 tal Farm, Brandon, Manitoba, — Report of 307 



Blair, \V. S., Horticulturist, Experimental 



Farm, Nappan, N.S.,— Report of 288 



Chemist,— Report of the 135 



Acknowledgments 137 



Alfalfa, analysis of 139 



AlfUaria, analysis of 147 



Ashes, lime kiln, analysis of 177 



Assimilation of nitrogen by legumes 141 



Awnless brome grass, analysis of 146 



analyses of hay and chaff of 147 



effect of maturity on composition of . . 147 



Buckwheat bran, analysis of 149 



Composts, fertilizers for making 178 



Clovers as green manures 135, 138 



sowing with barley 139 



analyses of 139 



Mammoth Red 139, 140, 144 



Common Red 139 



Crimson 139 



Alsike ; 139 



Correspondence 137 



Erodiii/rn cicutarium, analysis of 147 



Fertilizers, naturally-occurring 147 



Fertilizing materials 136 



Forage plants and fodders , 170 



Awnless brome grass 146 



Storksbill (Erodium) 147 



"Heavy feed " and buckwheat bran . . 149 

 " Ground feed " used in cattle trans- 

 portation 150 



Green manures for increasing soil fertility. 138 



" Ground feed, " analysis of 150 



" Heavy feed," analysis of 149 



Horse beans, experiments with 142 



Inoculation, experiments with nitragin . . . 142 



with horse beans 142 



with Mammoth Red Clover 144 



Kay's compound, composition of 178 



Letter of transmittal 135 



Lime kiln ashes, composition of 177 



Lobster refuse from the canning factories . 175 



analyses of 176 



value of, per ton, as a fertilizer 176 



Mammoth Red Clover 139, 144 



Marl, analysis of samples of 175 



uses of 175 



Marsh, creek and tidal deposits .... 171 



Meetings attended 137 



Mineral specimens 137 



Moss litter 136, 179 



Muck, swamp, analyses of 170 



"Mud," analysis of, from Nappan, N.S. . . 172 



from St. Martin's, N.B 172 



from Vancouver, B.C 173 



from BarachoLs de Malbaie, Que 173 



from Summerside, P.E.I. 174 



Naturally-occurring fertilizers 136, 170 



Nitragin, use of in agriculture 135, 141 



experiments with 142 



PortuUica, fertilizing constituents in 177 



Purslane, n it 177 



Samples received for analysis 137 



Soils, Canadian 136, 151 



composition of 157 



Pagk, 

 CHKMisr Eeport of the — Con. 



Soils from British Columbia 151, 160 



from Ontario, analyses of 153, 165 



from Quebec, m 154, 167 



from North-west Territories and Man- 

 itoba, analyses of 163 



from Nova Scotia, analyses of 169 



from New Brunswick, n 168 



from Prince Edward Island, analyses 



of 135,169 



inoculation of with nitragin 141 



fertility, factors of 138 



value of analysis of 157 



available plant food in 158 



standards of fertility in Canadian 169 



Storksbill (Erodium), analysis of 147 



Tuberculin 136 



Well waters from farm homesteads 136, 180 



analyses of 182 



Craig, John, Horticulturist, Central Experi- 

 mental Farm, — Report of 



91 



DiRKCTOK, — Report of the 5 



Acknowledgments .... 89 



Barley, experiments with 12 



field crops of 14 



hybrid sorts of 13, 14 



six-rowed, test of varieties 14 



Albert. 



Argyle 



Baxter's . . . 

 Blue ..... 

 Brome .... 

 Champion . 



Claude 



Common . . 

 Empire , . , 

 Excelsior . . 

 Garfield . . . 

 Mansfield . 

 Mensury . . 

 Monde (hulless). . 



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Nugent 14 



Oderbruch 14 



Odessa 14, 15 



Petschora . . . 14 



Phoenix, 14 



Pioneer 14 



Rennie's Improved 14 



Royal 14 



Stella 14 



Success 14, 15 



Summit 14 



Surprise 14 



Trooper 14, 15 



Vanguard 14 



Yale 14 



two-rowed, test of varieties 13 



Beaver 13 



Bolton 13 



Canadian Thorpe 13 



Danish Chevalier 13 



Dunham 13 



French Chevalier 13 



Gordon 13 



Harvey 13 



Jarvis 13 



