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EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 



4 GEORGE V., A. 1914 



During the year, the Superintendent delivered a considerable number of addresses 

 at various points, as well as assisted at Short Courses, etc. 



The number of visitors to the Farm during the year was 4,015. 



The annual distribution of seed potatoes was carried on, the number of samples 

 distributed being 484. 



The following are the meteorological records for the year ending March 31, 1913. 



METEOROLOGICAL RECORD. 



Note. — Ten inches of snowfall is reckoned as one inch of rainfall. 



EXPERIMENTAL STATION FOR NEW BRUNSWICK. 



Fredericton, N.B. 



As the land for the Experimental Station here was not purchased until Septem- 

 ber last, this report can only be very brief. 



The land comprises an area of approximately four hundred and fifty (450) acres. 

 It is situated within the limits of the city of Fredericton, fronting on the St. John 

 river, and is crossed by the Canadian Pacific railway, the platform known as Doak 

 being on the Station land. The line of the St. John Valley railway crosses the 

 Station close to the bank of the St. John river. The centre of the farm is about three 

 miles down river from the centre of the city proper. 



The area was made up of farms, belonging respectively to John O. Adams, Dell 

 Gunter, H. C. Jewett, A. H. Waterhouse and W. W. Boyce. None of these farms 

 had more than a small proportion of land in a good state of cultivation. Of the whole 

 area, only about one hundred acres has been in crop. 



Some twenty acres of sod were ploughed for the planting of corn, potatoes, roots, 

 etc., and about six acres were ploughed on the Boyce property when it was bought. 

 Much of the land requires drainage to secure maximum crops. 



With the object of getting all the land lying between the Canadian Pacific rail- 

 way and the river under cultivation, comprising an area of approximately three 

 hundred acres, as much land as possible was brushed and ditched before winter con- 

 ditions set in. The place was also surveyed, and a road through the centre of the 



