454 EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 



4-5 EDWARD VII., A. 1905 



pact growth and, wlicn old enougli to produce berries, the glossy green leaves and brighr 

 red berries make it a thing of beauty. 



The eastern hemlock, eastern arborvitae, Norway spruce, pyramidal arborvitae, 

 and the native cedar all make very compact handsome hedges which look well always. 



For flowering hedges, the weigelias, deutzias, Japan quince or Japanese snow- 

 ball all loolv well when in bloom. 



ORNAMENTAL TEEES AND SHRUBS. 



There was a lieavy fall of soft damp snow in February which clung to the trees 

 and shrubs and some v/ere crushed and injured, but none so much as to ruin them, 

 with this exception, the growth has been very strong and many of the flowering trees 

 and shiaibs never looked better than they did this year. In flowering trees the doubb 

 flowering thorns, pink, scarlet and white, the laburnum, and the flowering dogwood, 

 pink and white, grow luxuriantly and flower profusely. 



In shrubs the Japanese quince and Japanese snowball, the weigelias, spiraeas, 

 hydrangeas, syringas, deutzias, philadephus and many others make a fine display of 

 bloom from the last of March until June, and many of the shrubs and trees having 

 variegated or purple foliage make a strikingly handsome appearance all summer. 



The timber and nut trees in the forest belt continue to grow and thrive, and many 

 of the trees planted on the mountain side are getting above the underbrush, and when 

 the trees get their autumn tints are distinctly noticeable. 



NUT TREES. 



The English and American black walnuts each produced a few nuts, and the Jap- 

 anese walnut a fine crop. The chestnuts also, many of them, had a fair crop of nuts. 

 Many requests for nuts and tree seeds are received from farmers throughout the pro- 

 vince, and reports coming in of the nuts distributed in former years show that there is 

 a live interest being taken in nut tree growing, as the trees when once well established, 

 make a rapid growth and soon become handsome shade trees as well as nut producers. 

 The filberts of all the nut producers are unsatisfactory, the crop on all the varieties 

 being very poor, and the bluejays begin to carry them off before they are properly filled. 



DITCHING. 



Considerable ditching has been done during the year, and the old ditches where 

 open have been cleaned out, and many of the wet places along the foot of the mountains 

 are now dry and will be cleared of brush and put under cultivation and pasture as 

 rapidly as possible. 



NEW BREAKING. 



About 8 acres have been ploughed and disked, and are now being ploughed again 

 to be in readiness for a crop next year. 



LIVE STOCK. 



The cattle here are all registered short-horns, and the herd conslsta of 9 cows,, 4 

 heifers, 3 bulls and 7 calves, 4r of these are bull calves, and 3 heifer calves. One short- 

 horn cow was sold for beef, as she proved to be barren. One of the bull calves men- 

 tioned in my report last year has been sold as a breeder and the other is on hand. 



