624 EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 



2 GEORGE V., A. 1912 



Pocahontas. — Stalks, five to seven feet high, slender, productive. Ears, six to 

 eight inches long, well filled out to the tip with sweet, well-flavoured corn. Fit for 

 the table August 26, and remains tender and good for a long time. 



SQUASH. 



Six varieties of squash were planted on May 12. The bush varieties were planted 

 in hills six feet apart each way and the running varieties in hills nine feet apart each 

 way. 



Golden Custard. — A very strong, bushy grower and productive. Squash, four to 

 eight inches in diameter. Fit for the table July 28. 



Long White Bush Marrow.— A strong grower and very productive Squash, from 

 ten to twelve inch"'' long and four to six inches in diameter; quality, very fine for 

 table use. Fit for use August 2. 



Essex Hybrid. — A strong, running variety and productive. Squash, weight from 

 eight to twelve pounds, very thick fleshed; very sweet, pleasant-flavoured. A very 

 good fall and winter variety. 



Hubbard. — A strong grower and very productive. Flesh, thick and solid, sweet, 

 fine-grained, and very good for table use; a good keeper. 



Fordhoolc. — A good grower and productive. Flesh, thick, fine-grained and very 

 sweet. A good winter squash. 



Mammoth Whale. — A very strong grower. Squash, very large, rather coarse in 

 texture, and not a table variety. 



CLEARING. 



About two acres of land have been cleared and all small trees and scrub grubbed 

 out and burned off and the land is now ready for the plough. 

 Xo ditching has been done this year. 



CATTLE. 



The herd of Shorthorns numbers twenty cows and heifers, one stud bull and four 

 young bulls. Dairying is so profitable in the western portion of the mainland and on 

 Vancouver Island, that the dairy breeds have supplanted the beef breeds, and the 

 demand for Shorthorn bulls is steadily falling off. It is a question whether it would 

 be better to sell the herd here and replace them with a dairy herd. All of our stock 

 are in good condition and in excellent health. 



SHEEP. 



The cougars have killed a number of our lambs each year for two or three year?, 

 and some other flocks in the municipality have suffered more severely than that on the 

 Farm. As there is so much cover for wild animals on these wooded mountains, it is 

 difficult to make sheep breeding profitable. Onr flocks consists of twenty-two females 

 and two buck lambs. 



