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Different varieties of peas were also sown and all matured. The barley, oats and 

 flax were likewise a good crop and would have given a heavy yield had it not been 

 for the extremely hot dry weather during the latter part of July and the first two 

 weeks in August. The grain ripened very fast and was not as well filled as was 

 expected. About 40 acres of land was plowed last fall and 8 acres of it sown in fall 

 wlieat. 



Cochrane Garden : 



The garden plot at the headquarters at Cochrane and the farm about one mile 

 west of Cochrane were planted as in previous years and gave excellent results. 

 Strawberries, early corn, beans, celery, potatoes, turnips, etc., yielded well, also all 

 kinds of grain. Fall wheat gave 43 bus. per acre; spring wheat 30 bus. per acre. 



Flower and vegetable garden at headquarters of Northern Development Branch, Cochrane. 



Three varieties of spring wheat were sown on the 27tli of April on fall plowed land 

 and were harvested on 12th of August. Barley gave a good yield. Different 

 varieties of oats were sown; the Siberian and Banner oats appeared to give the best 

 results. 



As this land is high and had been cultivated for two previous seasons no injury 

 was done by summer frosts. 



From the three years' experience with our experimental farms and very careful 

 observations during the last five years, it would appear that it is necessary to plow 

 the land in the fall of the year so as to be prepared to sow the seed at the earliest 

 opportunity after the snow disappears in the spring. By so doing I find that there 

 is little risk of summer frosts unless the land is low and undrained. 



At Kapuskasing River, 70 miles west of Hearst, where the Dominion Govern- 

 ment has established an experimental farm, a few acres were sown in oats, peas, 

 barley, wheat and potatoes. These were sown about the 20th May and gave ex- 



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