REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR 



53 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



KixoRD OF Tempeuatuke, Precipitation and Sunshine at Fredericton for the year 



1913. 



April 



May 



June 



July 



August 



September. 



October 



November. 

 December. 



January. . . 

 February. 

 March 



Total. 



Months. 



1913. 



1914. 



Temper.^tures. 



Highest. 



Lowest. 



Mean. 



42 

 47 

 58 

 64 

 63 

 55 

 53 

 36 

 24 



22 

 12 

 30 



Precipita- 

 tation. 



Inches. 



2-2 

 40 

 10 

 51 

 4-0 

 2-1 

 7-4 

 1-5 

 2-7 



41 

 2-9 

 60 



43-9 



Hours of 



Bright 



Sunshine. 



160 

 181 

 2.57 

 213 

 244 

 192 

 57 

 107 

 112 



81 

 123 

 124 



1,851 



BUILDINGS. 



Two houses already on the place were repaired. One was fitted up for the use 

 of the Superintendent until a residence can be built, and one for the foreman. A 

 herdsman's house was also erected, a well drilled for water supply, and a house built 

 over it, and pumping machinery, a pneumatic tank and air compressor installed. 

 The various houses and barns were connected with the tank by service pipes. 



A main cattle bam 50 by 100 feet, a dairy barn connected to it, 41 by 102 

 feet, together to house 100 head of cattle, a horse barn 30 by 90 feet, and a dairy 

 building with cold storage attached, were erected, the cattle barn being occupied^ 

 in January and the other buildings at the end of the fiscal year. 



FENCING AND DRAINING. 



Between 2 and 3 miles of woven wire fencinr was erected, and 17 acres of land 

 tile drained as well as over half a mile of heavy open ditch dug. 



CLEARING LAND. 



One hundred and fifty acres were cut over, wood removed, brush burned, small 

 bushes cut and approximately 50 acres stumped and ploughed. 



ROADMAKING. 



Four thousand and thirty feet of farm road was constructed with stone founda- 

 tion and gravel surface through the centre of the farm, connecting the highway 

 on the river bank with Doak station on the Canadian Pacific railway, and the high- 



