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they are mucli better suited than horses. The registered Shorthoru stock consists of 

 seven milch cowp. four yearling heifers, three heifer calves, five bull calves, and one 

 herd bull, making a total of twenty head. One Shorthorn bull was sold during the year. 

 Thirty-two head of steers were fed during the winter; these were a little light for 

 profitable feeding, and the gains on them were not great. The most of the feeds con- 

 sumed by the stock has to be bought and, owing to the high price of hay and meals 

 the margin was small. 



MEETINGS ATTENDED. 



Agricultural meetings were addressed at: Amherst, N.S.; Truro, N.S. ;. Hopewell 

 Hill, N.B.; Hillsboro, N.B.; Salisbury, N.B. ; Woodville, N.S.; Falmouth, N.S.; Mt. 

 Denson, KS.; Gaspereaux, N.S.; Aylesford, KS.; Somerset, N.S.; Sussex, N.B.; 

 Hampton, N.B.; Kexton, N.B. ; Sackville, N.B. ; Port Elgin, N.B.; Kentville, N.S.; 

 Fredericton, N.B.; Grand Pre, jST.S. 



The meetings of the Maine State Pomological Society were attended and addresses 

 given. The Charlottetown, P.E.I, floral show was attended in the capacity of judge, 

 and a meeting addressed there. 



BUILDINGS CONSTRUCTED. 



In addition to the poultry buildings mentioned above, an implement and tool 

 building was erected. This building is 96 feet long and 30 feet wide, with 12-foot 

 posts and a store-room above. A steer barn with a capacity of twenty-four head, was 

 also erected with silo and root-house attached. This building is 50 by 22 feet, with 

 wing 12 by 12 feet for feed room and root cellar. 



EXHIBITIONS. 



An exhibit was put up of produce grown at Kentville, at Shubenaeadie, Hants 

 County, N.S., and Kentville, N.S. At the Kentville exhibition, in addition to the 

 general exhibit, a display was made of the vegetables grown at this Station, and also 

 of fruit from the experimental orchard plots illustrating the importance of different 

 sprays. ' 



ASSISTANTS WHO HAVE JOINED THE FORCES FOR ACTIVE SERVICE. 



The station at Kentville has lost the services of Mr. J. M. Robinson, B.S.A., 

 assistant to the Superintendent, who gave up his work in September and joined the 

 2nd contingent for overseas service. Mr. James Gallagher, who was gardener at the 

 station, also at the same time joined the 2nd contingent. Mr. C. Eric Boulden, who 

 formerly had charge of the poultry, Mr. Arthur Kelsall, who had charge of experi- 

 mental orchard work, and Mr. John Brown, who was employed in horticultural work, 

 have joined later contingents. It is needless to say that these men have been missed 

 in carrying on the work of the Kentville Station, where they have each given highly 

 satisfactory service. 



EXPERIMENTAL STATION, FREDERICTON, N.B. 



WEATHER CONDITIONS. 



The winter was colder than the average, with spells of intense cold almost unpr^ 

 cedented. The average mean temperature for January, February, and March was^ 

 15-5 degrees against an average for the last forty years for these months of 18 degrees. 

 There was, however, beginning December 24, a nice even blanket of snow, and frost 

 did not penetrate as deeply as in more open winters. The snowfall was not above the 

 average on the whcle, and covered the ground till April 10. April was a cold, back- 

 ward month with a below-zero record of 3-5 degrees on the 5th; cold high winds were 





