1002 EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 



7 GEORGE V, A- 1S17 

 COEEESPONDENCE. 



The following figures give the number of letters received and of letters and cir- 

 culars despatched during the fiscal year. Most of the correspondence is carried en 

 during the winter months : — 



Letters received direct 10,159 



Letters received through other offices on this Farm 3,168 



Total letters received 13,327 



Letters despatched, English 3,063 



Letters despatched, French 535 



Printed letters and circulars despatched 11,285 



Total communications despatched 14,883 



The use of a large number of printed letters is found necessary in order to answer 

 as expeditiously as possible some of the more ordinary kinds of letters of enquiry which 

 are received. 



VISITS TO BRANCH FAEMS AND STATIONS. 



There are now so many points at which experiments in cereals are being carried 

 on, that it is not possible to visit them all at a favourable time without seriously 

 neglecting the work at Ottawa, which requires my presence during parts of July and 

 August. Last season all the Stations in British Columbia were visited towards the end 

 of June or early in July, and the southern stations in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and 

 Manitoba immediately afterwards. In August and early in September all the Stations 

 east of Ottawa were visited. 



CONVENTION ATTENDED. 



In the middle of July I attended, as the representative of the Department of 

 Agriculture, the joint convention of the Great Plains Co-operative Experiment 

 Association and the Great Plains Section of the American Society of Agronomy 

 which was held at Mandan, North Dakota, in the buildings of the federal experi- 

 ment station recently established there. 



The series of meetings proved to be very interesting and valuable to those. who 

 are concerned with agricultural problems on prairie lands. I addressed the conven- 

 tion on the subject of " Varieties of Spring Wheat suitable for the Prairie Provinces 

 of Canada." 



MAEQUIS WHEAT. 



It is a pleasure to record the fact that for five years in succession Marquis wheat 

 has won the highest award in the great international competitions. The winning 

 exhibit this past season at the International Dry-farming Congress in Denver, 

 Colorado, was sent by Mr. Seager Wlieeler, of Rosthern, Sask. This is the third 

 time, in five years, that Mr. Wheeler has gained the highest prize. 



Ottawa. 



