£0 EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 



4 GEORGE V., A. 1914 



a heavy clay, it is hard to keep this road in good shape in wet weather. It should be 

 covered with stones or gravel. 



FENCES. 



Along the front road a fence of 8 strands of No. 9 wire, and 40 inches high, was 

 laid on good turned cedar posts, 6x6 inches and set 10 feet apart. These posts are 

 connected at 52 inches from the level of the soil by a rail, 3 x 4, and the whole fence is 

 painted with two coats of paint. Gates, 15 feet wide, give access to the different 

 fields, and a double artistic-looking gate, 16 feet wide, and one 4 feet, of the same 

 design, close the avenue. The gate and corner posts are 8x8 and 12 x 12 respec- 

 tively, sunk to a depth of five feet and set on stones; facing the proposed buildings, 

 there is a lawn fence painted green. 



On the high road, to the west, and on the south road facing the farm, as well as 

 on other parts of the farm, 3,188 yards of fences, 48 inches high and made of 10 

 strands of No. 9 wire were put up. All the posts are dressed cedar, 6 to 8 inches ; the 

 upper part is rounded and painted. They were set at intervals of 16 feet 6 inches. The 

 posts are sunk 3 feet and more in the soil, which makes a very strong fence. Gates. 14 

 and 15 feet, at various places on the high road, give access to the other fields. A 

 number of culverts of various sizes, according to the widths of the creeks, were laid 

 on the farm. A bridge, which was too low and in poor condition, was rebuilt on 

 good foundations of stone and cedar. 



DRAINAGE. 



More than 6,000 feet of drains were laid during the past season; part of these 

 drains were laid in a four-acre field at the foot of the hill. This was ploughed 

 last July; it was worked up, graded, cleared of stones and an orchard of more than 

 400 trees will be set out in the spring. 



A number of ditches were dug or widened; others were started, and will be com- 

 pleted next season ; others again will need to be made larger. A large number of 

 etones were removed from various parts of the farm, and more particularly from the 

 drained fields. Nearly six acres of new land were ploughed for the first time, and 

 more than 600 yards of stone were taken off the fields. 



About 14 acres of land, covered with brush, or wood of little value, were cleared. 

 The greater part of this area is marshy land, on the high part of the farm. When 

 drained, this area will be possible of cultivation. 



The other fields were not laid out in a suitable manner for an Experimental 

 Station when the property was purchased. A part of the old fences were removed; 

 and four different rotations of three, four and five years respectively will be started 

 this spring. 



FRUIT TREES. 



There are, near the buildings, thirty-four apple trees of all ages, including six 

 varieties; some of these trees yield very little fruit, while others do not yield any- 

 thing. The apple crop was an average to a poor one, and of inferior quality. There 

 are, in the same place, eighteen plum trees, made up of five varieties. The plum 

 crop was a very good one on the Station and in the whole district. 



Two shipments of European plums, forwarded on the 5th and 12th of September 

 to the Dominion Eruit Exchange, at Ottawa, were classed as ' choice.' Two other 

 shipments to M. Vipond & Co., Montreal, were classed ' excellent.' Some dead trees 

 were removed and some others will have to be specially treated. 



CEREALS. 



Cereals were not grown from an experimental point of view last year. About twenty- 

 five acres were sown in oats from the 6th to the 14th May. The varieties used were the 



