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with Mr. Crosbie of the Tweed Inspectorate. As our exhibit reaches a con- 

 siderable number of persons who are in direct contact with the fire districts, 

 in the eastern and northern sections which are visited, this combination would 

 appear to be advisable. 



Midhurst 



(1) Nursery Operations 



(a) Fertilizers. 



Natural barnyard manure still continues to be our main source of fertilizer. 

 The amount used is not as great as formerly, as the soil is gradually being built 

 up both chemically and physically with the use of sweet clover as a green legume 

 fallow crop and decomposed humus from our swamp land. 



This humus is hauled and spread on the nursery land during the winter 

 season. [This year 1,079 loads were taken out. This humus is rich in available 

 nitrogen as well as improving the soil from a physical standpoint. 



The legume seed (sweet clover) before sowing is thoroughly treated with 

 nitro-culture and the resulting nodular development is very gratifying. 



The^seed bed land received the heaviest application of manure as well as 

 considerable artificial fertilizers. The following artificial fertilizers were used 

 this year. 



Sulphate of Potash 72 lbs. 



Sulphate of Ammonia 92 



Bone Meal 80 



0—12—15 52 



Muriate of Potash 52 



Sheep Manure 436 



4—8—10 72 



Blood Tankage 384 



2—8—10 72 



Carbonate of Potash 600 liquid lbs. 



Acid Phosphate 132 lbs. 



Wood Ashes 12 



Animal Tankage 24 



Steamed Bone Meal 12 



Nitrate of Soda 12 



Rock Phosphate 12 



This gives a total weight of 2,116 pounds of artificial fertilizers used on 

 seed beds at this station. Besides this the lawns receive four or five hundred 

 pounds of Blood Meal, Sheep Manure and Bone Meal. 



(b) Seed. 



As usual the majority of our seed was furnished from the extracting plant 

 at Angus. 



(c) Seed Beds. 



This year most of our seed beds were sown in the fall. Seeding commenced 

 on October 28th, and finished on November 13th. 



A few beds were sown in the spring on May 11th. 

 The following chart gives this data in tabulated form. 



