REPORT OF TEE DIRECTOR 97 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



SUMMARY OF CROPS EXCLUSIVE OF UNIFORM TEST PLOTS. 



SMALL FRUITS AND ORCHARD. 



Small fruits are succeeding well. Black currants have this year produced large 

 yields of excellent quality. Strawberries, if given protection by shelter belts or bluff, 

 will yield well. The varieties leading, for a period of years, are Haverland, Senator 

 Dunlap and Bederwood, while Warfield and Wm. Belt stood highest in 1912. 



A large number of seedling apple trees, grown from seed of hardy stock, have 

 been planted this year. The growing of trees produced from seed of hardy varieties 

 •f good quality affords the quickest solution to the problem of securing suitable stock 

 for our climate. 



ORNAMENTAL TREES AND SHRUBS. 



With the idea of providing an object lesson in methods of grouping ornamental 

 trees and shrubs, the grounds between the Superintendent's residence and the Calgary 

 and Edmonton trail were laid out and have been partially planted, under the direc- 

 tion of the Dominion Horticulturist. The remaining work will be completed in the 

 ■pring of 1913. 



EXTENSION. 



In March of 1912, the Honourable the Minister of Agriculture authorized the 

 purchase of some three hundred and sixty acres additional land. This area was 

 secured in order to give more scope for the horticultural and cereal work already 

 under way, and to provide range and winter forage for live stock, which had not 

 hitherto been kept. The district which the Station serves is well adapted for live 

 stock, and there is a large field for work along that line. 



BUILDINGS. 



To provide accommodation for stock, a dairy barn, a beef barn and a storage 

 barn, were erected, which will hold the fodder for, and house, about one hundred 

 head of beef and dairy sows and young stock. The dairy barn is a one-storey struc- 

 ture with the aisle opening into a feed-room in the storage barn, with which it forms 

 an ' L.' Concrete foundations and floors have been provided, while care has been 

 exercised to secure an abundance of light and good ventilation. 



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