REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR 



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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



Three hundred and four varieties or strains of vegetables were on trial, including 

 twenty-two varieties of potatoes. 



CULTURAL EXFERIJJENTS. 



These have been started in the orchards, to compare clover, rape, and vetches as 

 a cover crop, also to compare these with clover followed by rape, and with permanent 

 sod where the hay will be left on the ground for one part and taken off for the other. 

 W'ith vegetables, work will be undertaken to find put the best distances to thin, methods 

 of blanching celery, of staking and^pruning tomatoes, of controlling maggots, of start- 

 ing onions, of forcing rhubarb, of treating potato tubers, etc. 



FARM DEVELOPMENTS. 



Many improvements were made during the year, the principal of which were a 

 good system of waterworks and the macadamizing of l-i arpents of road fronting tlio 

 farm. In buildings there were erected a poultry administration building. 18 feet by 

 26 feet, 2^ stories, and three colony houses 12 feet by 8 feet, whilst an implement shed, 

 80 feet by 25 feet, was moved next to the workshop. Nothing was done in fences, a 

 few minor repairs only being made. About 10,000 feet of drains were put in, and a 

 large open ditch dug, about half a mile long, to take away surface water coming from 

 adjoining properties. Some 10 acres of land were cleared. 



EXHIBITIONS. 



Com, roots, grain, vegetables, fruit, flowers, and honey were exhibited at Three 

 Elvers and at Quebec, whilst a few things were sent to Sherbrooke. Ten horses and 

 twenty head of cattle, all French Canadians, were shown at Quebec and at Sherbrooke. 

 Every effort was made to bring out forcibly the educational side of the display, and 

 competent men were in charge, glad to give visitors all reasonable information. 



Some Weather Observations taken at Cap Rouge, 1913. 



