2 GEORGE V. SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 . A. 1912 



EXPERIMENTAL STATION FOR CENTRAL 



QUEBEC. 



REPORT OF G. A. LANGELIER, SUPERINTENDENT. 



Cap Rouge, Quebec, March 31, 1911. 



Dr. Wm. Saunders, C.M.G., 



Director, Dominion Experimental Farms, 



Ottawa. 



Sir, — I have the honour to submit herewith my first report of the operations on 

 the Experimental Station for Central Quebec. 



DESCRIPTION OF NEW STATION. 



Situation. — The property, formerly known as Stadacona Farm, which was taken 

 over on January 1, 1911, by the Dominion Department of Agriculture, comprises lot3 

 23, 26, 27, 30, 31, of the first concession of Demaure Seigniory, in the parish of St. 

 Felix du Cap Rouge, County of Quebec, and is about nine miles from Quebec City, 

 on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River. 



Facilities of access. — The Transcontinental Railway touches the northeastern 

 corner of the property. The Canadian Northern has it3 station a short distance from 

 the southeastern part of the farm. The Quebec Electric Tramway is being built to 

 Cap Rouge, about one-third of the road having been put into working order last 

 autumn. The market boats come here now and then, and, with very little repairs to 

 one of the many wharves, could bring excursions from the many large parishes situ- 

 ated along the St. Lawrence, both above and below Cap Rouge. 



Area. — The farm, which is in a solid block, has an area of about 380 arpents*, of 

 which 185 are in cultivation, 35 used for paddocks and buildings, 25 a steep side hill, 

 75 in brush, and 60 in forest. All the land is tillable, with the exoeption of 30 arpents. 



Soil. — This is not very fertile and is underlaid at various depths with shale. It 

 varies from a sandy to a heavy clayey loam and is fairly representative of that of a 

 large number of farms in Central Quebec. 



Drainage. — About 125 arpents have been drained, though in some places with tiles 

 of too small a diameter. The other 60 arpents in cultivation, which are nearly level, 

 nped drainage. 



Fences. — All the paddocks, and a few of the fields, are fenced with Page wire. 

 The posts, all good cedar, are fifteen feet apart, and set in concrete where necessary. 

 Four of the fields will have to be fenced this spring. 



* The arpent is used both as a measurement of length and of surface. It is equivalent 

 to 191 English linear feet anc 1 as a measurement of surface to .8375 of an acre, nearly. 



