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Irish Cobbler gave a yield of 280 bus. per acre; Green Mountain, 336 bus, per 

 acre; Carman No. 1, 240 bus. per acre; Puritan, 346 bus. per acre. 



Carrots, Parsnips and Beets. — These three vegetables gave a heavy yield and 

 wove of first quality, the carrots being particularly good. 



Celery. — Celery did remarkably well during the present season and by planting 

 out healthy plants with a strong clean root system this plant is a profitable one for 

 :i)iy settler to grow. 



Production of Seed. — A quantity of good turnip seed was produced on the 

 farm in 1915. This was sown in 1916 with the seed showing good vitality and 

 pi'odueing a heavy crop. 



Small Fruits. — The season of 1916 was very favourable for the production of 

 strawberries, red raspberries, red and black currants. 



With some attention and care at the necessary time a settler would be well re- 

 paid for the labour expended. 



Throughout the northern district there is a growing demand for a better class 

 of live stock. At the Ground Hog Farm the Department has secured a few 

 tlioroughbred pigs, cattle, sheep and poultry which are doing well and are a very 

 great benefit to the settlers. Pasture throughout the summer season, even in the 

 dry season, never failed. Along all the old roads and burnt over areas both timothy 

 and clover are to be found in great abundance. From the splendid results we have 

 had on this farm and on the other experimental plots 1 am convinced that when 

 the settlers can afford to cultivate their lands as is done in the older sections of the 

 Province that equally good results will be obtained. 



(Sgd.) J. F. Whitsox, 



Commissioner. 



To the Honourable the Minister of Lands, Forests and Mines: 



Sir, — I beg to recommend the expenditure of the following amounts during 

 the season of 1917 under the Northern and Northivestern Ontario Development Act, 

 1912, on the construction of new roads, repairing and surfacing of old roads, the 

 construction of bridges and culverts, the clearing of Crown Lands and the operation 

 of Experimental Farms and garden plots at and near the Towns of Cochrane and 

 Hearst; at the Ground Hog Eiver, 50 miles west of Cochrane; at Kapuskasing, 

 70 miles west of Cochrane ; at the Nagagami River, 40 miles west of Hearst, all on 

 the Transcontinental Railway; and at the Tovni of Matheson, on the Temiskaming 

 and Northern Ontario Railway. 



district of Rainy River : 



In the Rainy River Valley, to re-surface with gravel roads constructed 

 last season, also the opening up of new roads in the partly settled town- 

 ships in the northern part of the Rainy River Valley, and draining low- 

 lying townships tributary to the Grassy River $35,000 



