306 EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 



2 GEORGE V., A. 1912 



Plot No. 3 was sown with barley at the same rate as the wheat and at the rate of 

 1C pounds per acre of alfalfa seed. This plot looked much better than No. 2 but was 

 also very unsatisfactory. 



Plot No. 4 was sown with oats at the rate of one bushel per acre and with the 

 same quantity of alfalfa seed as the others. The alfalfa on this plot was not so good 

 as on No. 3. 



On July 21, the Pear Orchard was sown with Alfalfa seed at the rate of 20 pounds 

 per acre. This made a very rapid growth and on September 30 there was an even 

 stand, averaging twenty-three inches in height. 



ADDITION TO FARM. 



Possession was taken of the small triangular portion of the ' Ravenwood ' pro- 

 perty which lies on the west side of the railway, and a crossing was put in over the 

 railway. The area taken over was 1-55 acres making a total area now in the Char- 

 lottetown Experimental Station of 59 acres. 



FENCES. 



New fences were erected along the boundaries adjoining the Mount Edward road, 

 the De Blois road and the Beer property and also along one-half of the property 

 adjoining that owned by Judge R. R. Fitzgerald. A new fence was also erected around 

 the entire boundary of the portion of the ' Ravenwood ' property which lies west of 

 the railroad. 



BUILDINGS. 



One of the buildings was moved back from near the Superintendent's residence, 

 repaired and made into a convenient carriage house and work-shop. A temporary 

 threshing-floor was laid in another building, on which all the threshing was done. A 

 stable was fitted up in the largest barn which has accommodated the horses for the 

 year. A new machine-house, 80 feet by 25 feet was built and a floor laid in the loft 

 which has been used for a granary and sample room. Most of the material required 

 for a new barn, 60 by 40 feet, has been bought, and stored in the machine-house. 



TILE DRAINAGE. 



Tile drains were laid thirty feet apart through the areas of swamp land which 

 lie on either side of the St. Avard's road. These discharge into drainage wells. It 

 was necessary to drill three wells beside the one mentioned in last year's report. The 

 underlying strata of sandstone rock apparently have many fissures in them. One of 

 these wells, sixty-five feet deep, was tested and it was found to be carrying off over 

 7,000 gallons per day. A drainage system consisting of a six-inch main drain, four- 

 inch sub-mains and three-inch laterals (the latter being 33 feet apart) was laid from 

 the Blake property across the Johnson property and one-half way along the railway 

 front of the 'Ravenwood' property to an outlet where it discharges into the railroad 

 ditch. A system for the higher wet areas on the Blake property was started at the 

 boundary with the Johnson property. The main drain for this system passes through 

 the bottom of the old Pottery pond to the De Blois road, follows parallel with this road 

 until it discharges into the gutter at a point about 200 feet east of the railway ditch. 



