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Table III. — Number of packages of gntss and furaye plant seeds distrilmted to foreign 



countries. 



Country. 



Africa: 



Capetown, Capo Colony, Dr. P. MacOwan 



Mustfippa, Algeria, Prof. L. Trabut 



Durban, Natal, Prof. J. Medley Wood 



Tunis, .\lgeria, I'Directeur de 1' Agriculture et du commerce 

 Argentine Republic: 



La Plata, Dr. Antonia, general director of the department 



of agricultural chemistry 



Australia: 



Adelaide, Hon. A. Molineux, secretary of agriculture 



Melbourne, Prof. D. McAlpine, department of agriculture. 



North Queensland, Town Hall, Charles Towers and Henry 

 O. Walkers 



Victoria, Ruffy Post-office, J. H. Noiya 



Canada: 



Ottawa, experiment station. Prof. J. Fletcher 



Toronto, King street, East, J. A. Simmers 



Central America: 



Honduras, Dr. R. Fritzgartner, director of mint 



England: 



Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew 



Cirencester, Franli McClellan 



Oxford, 80 Woodstock road. Prof. R. B. Townsend 



Egypt: 



Ghezeh, School of Agriculture, Prof. W. C. Mackenzie, 



director 



France: 



Limoges, M. Ch. Le Gendre ; 



Holland: 



Middleburg, M. Buysman 



India: 



Saharanpoor, Northwest Province, Prof. .T. F. Duthie 



Madeira: 



Funchal, J. B. Blandy 



Mexico: 



Santa Cruz, .T. Lawton Taylor 



Samoa: 



Apia, Hon. William Churchhill, United States consul- 

 general 



Switzerland: 



Zurich, director seed-control station 



Fiscal year. 



1896-97. 1897-98. 1898-99. 



Total. 



121 



1 



122 



122 

 122 



2 



6 



135 



6 

 112 



121 



b 

 119 



995 



20 



36 



Total. 



20 



42 



123 

 1 



122 

 6 



20 



122 

 122 



2 



6 



135 

 3 



112 



20 



3 



6 

 4 



42 



122 



2 



6 



6 



119 



1,110 



REPORTS RECEIVED FROM VOLUNTEER EXPERIMENTERS. 



The cooperation which the Division has received from farmers in all 

 parts of the countiy is very gratifying. It proves that they are alive 

 to their own interests and are anxious to become familiar with newl^' 

 tried or recently introduced grasses and forage plants that are likely 

 to prove of considerable value under cultivation. B}^ examination 

 of the table on page 11, it will be seen that a total of 1,713 reports 

 has been received in answer to 5,120 packages of seed sent out. This 

 large difference is mainly due to the fact that when the seed was first 

 distributed in 1896-97 no report blanks were sent or requests made for 

 a report as to the results of the experiments, and, in some cases in later 

 years, by neglect on the part of the experimenter to take notes on the 

 plants during their growth. In consequence of this they had not the 

 necessary knowledge to fill out the ])lanks forwarded them and so 

 neglected sending in a report of any kind. 



