60 EXPERIMEMAL FARMS 



6 GEORGE V, A. 1916 



EXPEKIMENTAL STATION, LENNOXVILLE, QUE. 



The land for this Experimental Station was purchased in the fall of 1913 and was 

 taken over by the Department of Agriculture on April 1, 1914. It comi)rises an area of 

 approximately 436 acres, SSOg acres in the township of Ascot, and the remaining 11 5 J 

 acres in the corporation of the town of Lennoxville. The centre of the farm is about 1 

 mile from the centre of the town,, one of the most central points in the nine counties 

 comprising the Eastern Townships of the province of Quebec, which this farm is sup- 

 posed to serve. Lennoxville has a population of 1,300, i^ located on the main line of the 

 Canadian Pacific, Grand Trunk, Boston and Maine, and Quebec Central railways, 

 which gives it the best railway facilities of any place in the Eastern Townships. It is 

 also connected by electric car service, every fifteen minutes, with the city of Sher- 

 brooke, the principal city in the Eastern Townships, wliich is only 3 miles distant and 

 has a population of 19,000. To complete the description it ma.v be stated that this farm is 

 situated 104 miles east of Montreal, 28 miles north of the boundary line of Vermont,- 

 and is in latitude 45° 20' north and longitude 79° 49' west, with an altitude of 500 feet. 



THE FARJf. 



The farm is made up of different areas purchased from the following gentlemen: — 



R W. "Reid IHSJ acres. 



W. n. Pearson 150 



E. Reed lOS 



W. J. Dougb',- 0^ " 



H.Bennett 2^ " 



C. F. Carter 



making a total of 430 acro^'^. 



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This farm is bounded on I lie noiUi liy (tie St. Francis river and the Cookshire 

 road, on the cast by divisional lines, on the south by the Canadian Pacific railway and 

 divisional lines, and on the west by Bishop's College property. The surface of the farm 

 near the river bottom is quite level, with undulating fields rising towards' the south and- 

 east and from the high parts of which a magnificent view of the St. Francis valley and 

 the town of Lennoxville may be obtained. 



THE SOIL. 



The soil near the river bottom is a clay loam, and 23,000 feet of tile was laid in 

 these low-lying fields this past season. The soil of the fields rising from these flats is 

 more of a sandy loam and is. of course, on that account well adapted for most crops. 

 The land at the back of the farm is quite rough, never having been broken, and will be 

 used for sheep pasturage until such time as it can be worked over and got into proper 

 shape for crop production. There is approximately 20 acres of bush on the farm. 



FIELD WORK. 



When this Station was organized by the Dominion Department of Agriculture, 

 April 1, 1914, the first work was drawing three carloads of fence posts from the station 

 for the erection of farm fences. This was followed by drawing manure shipped from 

 Montreal, which was applied to 25 acres of old timothy sod in very poor condition, but 

 on which it was desired to grow corn in 1914. Breaking this sod began May 1, followed 

 with a rolling to pack solid and conserve moisture: a little later discing was commenced 

 with a double cutaway disc, on which were used four horses, followed by a 20- foot 

 smoothing harrow, which- put the sotl-into Hne- tilth. Corn plajiting was commenced on 

 the 28th, Wisconsin No. 7 and Longfellow being the varieties used, sown in check rows 

 36 inches apart each way. A smoothing harrow was used until the corn 



