Identifier: annualreportoffr1908frui
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario
Subjects: Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario; Fruit-culture; Fruit-culture
Publisher: Ontario Dept. of Agriculture, (Warcick Bros.
Contributing Library: Brock University
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92 REPORT OF No. 17 HORTICULTUKAL EXPERIMENT STATION, J011DAN HARBOUli. By H. S. Peart, B.S.A., Director. In preparing this, my first annual report of the work at the Horticultural Experiment Station, I shall briefly mention some of the particulars leading up to the work of the present year. On acquiring the property m 190G a foreman was placed in charge and much preparatory work in cleaning up the land and the removing of unneces- sary fences done, but no attempt was made at experimental work. In the spring of 1907 most of the land was sown to oats, the balance being in sod and summerfallow. Soon after my appointment in June, the work of underdraining was started, following plans prepared by Mr. "W. H. Day, of the Ontario Agricultural College and before winter a complete Bystem of drainage with a total length of nearly eleven miles was laid. The land was fall plowed, worked and ribbed before winter and a considerable portion was treated with a dressing of manure preparatory to spring planting.
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Cold Storage and Barn at Horticultural Station, Jordan Harbour. At a meeting of the newly appointed Advisory Board held in Toronto in .February, 1908, a draft of the proposed experimental work was submitted, revised and approved. The necessary stock and seed were ordered and plots laid out. On the opening up of spring work, we found as a result of under drain- ing, that instead of the land being several days to a week later than adjoin- ing farms as in the past, that we were able to begin work a few days earlier than our neighbors, wThieh gave us a good start in April. The station grounds were subdivided by cross roads at convenient inter- vals for the purpose of affording the public and our laborers easy means of access to all parts of the work. In most cases these roads divided the differ- ent classes of soil almost completely so that the work of planting was greatly simplified.

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