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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



was well through the ground when a two-row riding cultivator was kept 

 going as long as a team could work through, after which a one-horse cultivator was used 

 for one cultivation. When this crop was cut in September it was found to be well 

 eared and yielded a good tonnage. A 20-horsepower steam engine and large Blizzard 

 blovver were used to fill the silos. Considering the poor condition of the soil and the 

 quality of manure used, the crop secured demonstrated very conclusively that the dis- 

 trict is well adapted to the raising of this important crop. There was also sown on 

 land ploughed in the fall of 1913 for former owners. 49 acres of Banner oats, and 10 

 acres of two-row or duckbill barley. Thirty-four aci-es of this 59 were seeded down to 

 timothy and red clover at the rate of 10 pounds of each per acre. The grain was har- 

 vested in the latter part of August but had to stand in the stocks for some time on 

 account of rainy weather. When dry it was dravv'n from the shocks and threshed at 

 once, yielding approximately 45 bushels of oats and 30 bushels of barley per acre. 



FENCING. 



Fencing was commenced in the month of September on the north bovmdary of 

 the farm, and was continued around the farm a distance of 4^ miles, using a 4-foot 

 wwven fence, nine strand*. No. 9 galvaniz«l wire, with stays 16 inches apart, posts set 

 16 feet apart, 3 feet deep wnvh corner and brace post-s 4 feet deep, well braced and 

 anchored. Some divisional fences were also completed. 



ROADS. 



The main travelled thoroughfare through the farm is the Cookshire-Eaton road, 

 which is the outlet of a large farming district in the counties of Oomptou and Wolfe 

 to the city of Sherbrooke. 



DRAINAGE. 



Twenty-three thousand feet of tile were laid this past season according to plans and 

 speeiiications drawn up by the Field Husbandry Division of the Central ExperimeutL;! 

 Farm, Ottawa. There was also IJ miles of open ditch opened up, 6 feet at top tapering 

 to 2i at bottom, 3 feet deep. 



BUILDINGS. 



There are six houses on this property, three of which have been painted, papered, 

 iitted throughout with hot and cold water, and electric lights installed. One of these 

 is occupied by the Superintendent, one by the foreman, and the other is used as a 

 boarding house. 



The barns used are tbose which were on the diiferent properties when taken over, 

 very little outlay being put on them, in expectation of new buildings being built soon. 

 The horse stable which was on the property formerly owned by E. \\. Reid includes 

 space for twelve horses and a harness room, and is used for that purpose; the balance 

 of the horses, six in number, are stabled in the R. W. Reid barn, the remainder of said 

 barn being used for be^f steers and sheep. The barn on the property formerly owned 

 by E. Reed is also used for cattle. 



SILOS. 



Two stave silos were erected this past summer, 18 feet in diameter, 30 feet high, 

 with a capacity of 320 tons. 



W\4TER SUPPLY. 



Water for use at the Superintendent's, foreman's and boarding houses, also the 

 barns on the R. W. Reid property, is furnished from a driven well 16 feet deep which 

 is connected up to a Hcller-AUer compressed air tank system, the pump being run by 

 electric current. 



