348 EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 



2 GEORGE V., A. 1912 



Buildings — They comprise — 



(a) The Superintendent's house, a brick structure. 52 x Zb, with greenhouse, 

 20 x 14. 



(b) The foreman's house, 28 x 37. 



(c) The herdsman's house, 41 x 18. 



(d) The boarding house, for the men, 30 x 30. 



(e) The horse stable, 98 x 30, containing 14 box stalls, harness room, feed room . 

 (/) The cattle barn, 151 x 38, equipped with swinging stanchions, individual 



watering basins, litter carrier, silo. 



(g) The piggery, 122 x 47, with stone boiler room, feed room, large shed for 

 wintering brood sows. 



(h) The poultry house, 25 x 33. 



(i) The implement shed, 80 x 25. 



(;") The store for tools, etc., 22 x 12. 



(k) The blacksmith shop, 17 x 8. 



(I) The ice house, 32 x 1G. 



(m) The Chatham 10,000 lbs. scales, 15 x 1G. 



Besides these, there is a building 15 x 15, over the well which furnishes water, by 

 gravitation, to the piggery; a shed 12 x 12, in one of the paddocks, for calves; 2 shelters 

 15 x 15, for mares and colts; 6 cabins 8 x 8, for hogs. 



Al l these buildings, except the Superintendent's house, are red with white trim- 

 mings, and present a very pleasing appearance. A few of those which were painted 

 four or five years ago, as the horse barn, the piggery, the foreman's, also the herdsman's, 

 house, would be better for at least one, or perhaps even two, coats of paint. 



The floors of the horse stable, cattle barn, piggery, hen house and ice house are of 

 concrete, also the troughs in the piggery as well as the mangers and partitions of 

 bull pens in the cattle barn. 



Implements. — There is quite a complete set of these, including grain and turnip 

 drills, potato and corn planters, single, two-furrow sulky, mould board and ditching 

 ploughs, four horse cut away, four horse riding spring tooth, also two horse disc, spring 

 tooth and levelling harrows, twelve-foot riding weeder, one row walking and two row 

 riding cultivators, two mowers (one 7 feet), ordinary and side delivery rakes, hay 

 loader, hay forks (2), grain and corn binders, potato digger, 30 bush, and 50 bush, 

 manure spreaders, Vessot grinder, Smaller cutter with blower, Legare wood saw, 12 

 horse-power portable Waterous steam engine, etc. 



Accessories. — There is a heavy lorry, a two-horse Chatham wagon, a one-Lorsp 

 Bain wagon, three Scotch carts, a Surrey, express wagon, five sleighs, two carioles, 

 three sets double harness, five sets single harness, U.S. cream separator, besides shovels, 

 picks, axes, and a rather good set of wood and iron working tools. 



WORK PLANNED AND IN PROGRESS. 



AGRICULTURAL AND LIVE STOCK DIVISION. 



Farm work.— Since January 1, the men have 1/een busy cutting, hauling (2J miles), 

 «nd storing over two hundred large pieces of ice, keeping the roofs of the different 

 buildings clear of snow, also about one mile of road in good shape. As there are no 

 cattle on the Station this winter, we are getting about twenty-five single loads of 

 manure from Quebec City every week and this has taken quite a lot of work. 



