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EXPERIMEXTAL FARMS 



5 GEORGE v.. A, 1915 



EXPERIMENTAL STATION, FREDERICTON, N.B. 



REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT. W. W. HUBBARD, 



DAIRY CATTLE. 



Xo dairy work was done during the year. Two cows were purchased in May and 

 their milk sold to the various families belonging to the officers and men connected with 

 the Station. These two cows produced approximately 15.000 pounds of milk. 



In the absence of equipment no record was kept of the cost of feeding. 



Next year it is intended to have about thirty-five nxilch cows on tlie Farm; part' 

 of them will be pure-bred Shorthorns, Ayrshires, and Hdlsteins, and eighteen cows of 

 no particular breeding ^Wll be kept under records. These latter will be served by a 

 prolstcin bull with the object of testing out heifers for comparison with the records of 

 their dams. 



COW BARXS. 



The accomp'a7iying plans and photographs of the new cow barns erected in the 

 summer of 1910 at the Experimental Station, Fredericton, X. B., are for the most 

 part self-explanatory. A few additional remarks, however, may help to make some 

 point* more intelligible. For more complete specifications, special referenx^e is mad » 

 to the report of the Dominion Animal Husbandman for the year ending March -31, 191-3, 

 iu which complete plans and specifications of a new dairy barn at Ottawa are detailed. 

 The details of the Fredericton barn, particularly of the dairj- cattle wing, are largely 

 siniiilar to the Ottawa structure. 



FOUNDATION'. 



All foundations are of concrete, well reinforced and extending 3 feet above the 

 floor level of barns, on which are bolted the sil^s. 



SUPERSTltL CTLTRE. 



The superstructure of both of these barns is of wood, In'p roofed, plank frame, 

 and the roof covered with best quality galvanized metal shiiigies. I'lie framing through- 

 out this barn is of timbers made from plank of the tlimeiLsions 2 by 6 inches, 2 by 8 

 inclies, and 2 by 10 inches. 



The covering of the frame, the method of flooring, ceiling, insulating the walls, 

 and the like, are similar to those described under the hoi^e barn, and also other s-peci- 

 flcations as found in the annual report of Superintendents in other cliapters of this 

 volmne. 



