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Appendix No. 45. 

 STATEMENTS FOR REPORT FOR THE YEAR ENDING 31st OCTOBER, 1920 



NEW LISKEARD DEMONSTRATION FARM. 



Work carried on in connection with the Farm during 1920 consisted largely 

 of land clearing and in production of an oat crop. Lack of any farm buildings 

 made it altogether impracticable to attempt to handle a variety of grain crops or 

 field root crops. Therefore, it was deemed advisable to sow only one grain crop, 

 viz., oats. Sixty acres were seeded to oats, seven to O.A.C* No. 73 and the balance 

 to O.A.C. No. 3. Of the sixty acres, forty-two were new land cropped for the first 

 time. A very creditable crop was harvested, the quality number one — the No. 3 

 weighed forty pounds per measured bushel just as delivered from the threshing 



O.A.C. No. 72 Oats, grown on the New Liskeard Demonstration Farm, 1920. 



mill. An average yield of forty bushels was realized from the entire field, some 

 parts of the field yielded sixty bushels per acre. 



In addition to sixty acres of grain, twenty acres of hay crop was harvested, a 

 total crop of eighty acres altogether on the farm. 



Forty acres of new land was seeded down for hay for 1921. Twenty-six acres 

 of new land were cleared during the summer and made ready for crop for next 

 year. 



The farm gave an approximate yield of: 



Oats 2,500 bushels. 



Hay 40 tons. 



Straw 30 tons. 



The most urgent need of the Farm at the present time is suitable farm 

 buildings. The policy of growing and selling hay and grain is not in the best 

 interests of the farm and certainly cannot be recommended to Timiskaming agri- 

 culture. 



