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On the west farm there is now about 30 acres ready for spring crop. A small 

 area of Fall wheat was also sown on the garden plot. 



At the Town of Hearst at the junction of the Algoma Central Railway and 

 the Transcontinental Eailway, different kinds of grain and vegetables were planted 

 and had every indication of a good yield. Unfortunately, however, a forest fire 

 which swept over that section of the country, burning out almost the entire town, 

 reached our garden and farm plots and completely destroyed the grain and 

 vegetables. 



On Lot 27, Concession 1, Township of Glackmeyer, about 1 mile west of the 

 town of Cochrane, an experimental plot was rented where the land is comparatively 

 level, the original forest growth being almost entirely spruce. The land had been 

 burned over and partially cleared a year ago. Operations were commeDced about 



Another view of the Ground Hog experimental garden. 



the middle of May and all kinds of grain and vegetables planted. Wheat, barley, 

 peas, rye and oats were sown between the 14th of May and the 1st of July ; they 

 all matured and ripened before the middle of September. As the land was low 

 lying and had from six inches to eight inches of vegetable mould on the surface, 

 there was an abundant growth of straw. The grain was well filled and would 

 compare favorably with crops grown in the best sections of older Ontario. 

 Potatoes, onions, cabbages, beets, carrots, parsnips, radishes and turnips were also 

 a first-class crop. Beans, com and tomatoes were injured by the summer frosts 

 about the 1st of August and did not mature. Beets, cabbages and onions were an 

 exceptionally fine crop. This particular farm lot was selected to test the character 

 of the soil on the low lying land in the district; the land before it was cleared had 

 every appearance of a swamp ; on the lot there was a small area of about a quarter 

 of an acre of timothy and clover which yielded a splendid crop. 



