54 EXPERUIEXTAL FARMS 



5 GEORGE v.. A. 1915 



way across the front of the station land was turnpiked, stone-filled in places and 

 all gravelled. A half mile of road ditch was dug along the Wilsey road where it 

 passes through the Station. 



LIVE STOCK. 



Seven draught mares, two draught geldings ranging in weight from 1,530 to 

 1,900 pounds, and one driving mare were purchased, making with the four grade 

 Clyde mares alr€;ady on the farm, six two-horse teams and one horse for single 

 farm work. Eight mares were bred, but only four have proved pregnant. 



Two grade cows were purchased and their milk sold to families of officers and 

 men working on the Station. 



During the winter thirty-nine cattle were bought for feeding. Feeders were 

 very high at time of purchase and the quality of those available very poor. They 

 will be carried along for the early summer market. 



POULTRY. 



Three small flocks of Rhode Island Reds, Barred Plymouth Rocks and White 

 Wyandottes were started. Ninety-four chickens were raised and the best kept to 

 make up three laying flocks which were wintered in colony houses. Preparatioiis 

 were made to conduct poultry work on a more extensive scale in 1914. 



CROPS, 



Six and one-seventh acres of potatoes, twelve and a half acres of Indian corn 

 and five acres of turnips comprised the field hoed crops. As the drier land on 

 the farm was so full of mustard, only one and a quarter acres of oats were sown there. 

 To pull the mustard from this cost $36. The yield was 60 bushels. Some oats and 

 barley sown late on very wet land were a failure. 



HORTICULTURE. 



One and one-third acres of land were devoted to garden vegetables and flowers, 

 etc., and twelve thousand shrubs, seedling trees, etc., were set in a nursery for future 

 ornamental trees. 



Tests were made of varieties of vegetables as to yield and characteristics and 

 distance apart for thinning beets, carrots, etc. 



POTATOES. 



A variety test of 154 samples was made in rows of 66 hills •each. Yields 

 varied from 13 bushels per acre to 631 bushels, over forty varieties yielding at the 

 rate of 400 bushels or over per acre. 



Eighteen fertilizer plots to test different chemicals and combinations of chemi- 

 cals were planted with potatoes. The average yield for the six and one-seventh 

 acres, including plots where no fertilizer was used, was 288 bushels and 51 pounds 

 per acre. The commercial plot of If acres yielded at the rate of 337 bushels and 

 25 pounds per acre. 



Fifty-five pound samples of seed .potatoes of Irish Cobbler, Green Mountain, 

 Delaware and Carman varieties, were distributed to applicants in Xew Brunswick. 



