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EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 



7 GEORGE V, A. 1917 



the 15tli and 16tli, 12-25 inches fell. At the time this caused little trouble, but, as the 

 weather remained cold, this, with 9 inches of snow on the 23rd accompanied by heavy 

 wands, blocked roads and tied up train traffic for several days. This was followed 

 by mild weather on the 26th, which continued to the end of the month, resulting in a 

 gradual disappearance of the snow without a freshet. The only rain was on the 26th 

 of 0-01 inch. The coldest period was 2 degrees below zero on the 19th. 



METEOROLOGICAL RECORDS. 



APPLES. 



The apple trees planted 40 by 40 feet apart comprise twenty trees each of BanlvS 

 (Red Gravenstein), Ben Davis, Yellow Bellflower (Bishop Pippin), Crimson Beauty, 

 Cox Orange, Duchess, Eallawater, Fameuse, Gano, Golden Russet, Hubbardston, 

 Milwaukee, Roxbury Russet (Nonpareil), Ontario, Tolman, Wellington, Yellow Trans- 

 parent, Baxter, Dudley (North Star), Red Astrachan, Wolf River, and Rome Beauty; 

 also sixty-two Baldwin, forty Blenheim, forty Rhode Island Greening, forty Ribston, 

 fifty-four Stark, forty Northern Spy, forty Tompkins King, 176 Mcintosh Red and 

 133 Wealthy. Seventy-four trees Walbridge have also been planted for top grafting 

 work. 



In addition to this there are 163 varieties of apples planted using two trees of 

 a variety. In a dwarf plantation thirty-six apples are on Doucin stock, thirty-six on 

 Paradise, twenty-five on English Paradise, and ten on French Paradise stock. A 

 special fertilizer block includes four varieties of thirty trees each. This makes a 

 total of 219 varieties of standards composed of 2,509 trees and eight varieties of 

 dwarf apples of 107 trees. This makes 227 varieties and a total of 2,616 trees planted. 



PLUMS. 



The plums planted so far number 92 varieties. Two trees of a kind have been 

 set of most varieties, but in addition to these, larger blocks of Monarch, Giant Prune, 

 Reine Claude, Diamond, Burbank, and Red June have been set. The total plum trees 

 planted number 367 trees. 



Kentville. 



