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Early Days Are Recalled By Farm's Former Head

” house there were poplar trees

Mental Farm oO 8 107 ch ee eed ‘cit that porter by Dr. J.A. Clark, former’ they were @ lend — that periniendent, reveal -a-most-in-| equid—be-—seen-for--miles— around, teresting and timely story on the) proclaiming $0th anniversary of this institu-/former home of Premier J.C. tion.) Pope. The limbs of these great

The site chosen by Dr. William) trees over-shadowed the resid- Saunders, C.M.G., Director, Do-;ence. When removed, _ the Minion Experimental farms, for} second saw-lqg of some of these the Experimental Station build-| trees at 25 feet from the ground Ings in August, 1909, was about|had a diameter of about 13 in ne mile north east from Queens|ches. A new barn was erected e in the City of Charlotte-|mear where the poplars once ; at-Latitude 45 degrees 15’ stood, and a set of standard Fair- North and longitude 63 | bank Scales, 10 x 17 feet was @egrees 12 minutes West.- The or-| placed nearby. fginal land for the farm was) : bought by the Provincial; 3 YEAR OLD RESIDENCE

Government and conveyed to the| There were ten rooms in the

Dr. Saunders asked me to meet | telpieces. The one in the base-| him that year early in August ‘and we drove out to the “Raven-|in general use, had room for a! “wood” Property. The first week of August had been fine and dry

a

ing was soaked and dripping. plied with wood. As we approached the newly uired farm, from the Mount) OTHER BUILDINGS

Edward Road, by the main drive-!

curves between dilapidated | ments are now located. When we e hedges that were about entered it, there were pails and

We were completely shut off from) Many tin cans or buckets were the buildings until we were al-| Placed te eatch the drips from most te the house. There the the many leaks in the roof, which

dges circled around a very during those four days were leak- | large oval just to the south of a ing like a sieve. huge verandah that extended a-| The Superintendent's Residence Pound the 40 x 44 feet two-story was repaired in 1909-1910 and a house. The verandah sprawled a-| machine shed 90 x 25 feet was long the west side, crossed the built at the edge of the grove gouth front. and then followed directly north of the Superintend- @long the east side. ents Residence in 1911.

MAGNIFICENT TREES CLEAR GROUNDS Many magnificent lindens, elms; Dr. Saunders authorized the re- and horse chestnuts stood on eith-| moval of the dilapitated spruce @r side of the driveway and back’ the use of Federal Officers on of- @ the circle in front of the ficial visits and another fitted up . Looking south from the for the Superintendent's office.

, the view of the City and) When the contractor put im an

Hillsboro River was entirely ae Ridden by rows of tall spruce and extra bill for chingling the es-

@ther trees that extended in a|P0l# om top of the house, Dr. from east to west. To the| Saunders refused payment, stat- , between the house and the) ing that ‘‘When he authorized the | Mt. Edward Road, there was a! shingling of the roof it meant all

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FARM, SUPT’S HOME AS SEEN ON FIRST ANNIVERSARY IN 1910

(“Early days at the ee aoe grove of trees. Near the| “

Federal department of Agricul-; Main house and seven fire-places the roof that was above his head ture by a ninety-nine year lease.| Many of them with marble man- at that time.”

ment, which had at one time been) POND BEAUTIFIED

back-log over 4 feet long. It had| Pond that had been excavated field research plots on the Ev-|joteown Farm im 1952. an and a swinging crane, Bear the barn to secure brick- perimental Farm property.

put from the th to the 1lth,|to move large pots in and out Clay for former brickkilns, he im-| paper EGG CONTEST

hile we examined and planned |from the fire. These fireplaces, Mediately said he

y-om for the future ex-| were the emily means of heating | W4‘er lilies to beautify it

perimental wark, Sve and one-| the rouse, and % #mm ove man's @!Tived in the spring of 1910

inches of rain fell and every-| continuous job te keep rhero eup-' Fences were to be erected about! |... pa property, cross fences and a gistered thirty crops has been collected from

hawthorn hedge oe ie es

|from near where the ‘poultry of- ‘

| The larger barn stood about fice building now stands dowa to ene? y od, Noman popular in many

og which followed gteat sweep-| Where the meteorological instru- the railway. The belt of tall parts of Canada.

- (Continued on Page 7) ruc thalamic res feet high on‘ either side, | tubs on the floor and on the lofts

.

Many ‘Farm First

| Prince Edward Island estab- mental Farm, Charlottetown, in

in 1909. The ori iter lot ot | 1918 This contest created a great

is : “oe dea! of interest and was the fore:

ment and leased to the Dominion} An Advanced Registry Station

+ | long-term lease, for the express! was established at the Experi- | Purpose of _ establishing an _Ex-| mental Farm, Charlottetown, in. perimental Station to serve Prince | 1934 This Station is administered

Edward Island. The original prop-| py the Production Service but

ery of 29 acres has been increas-| the Superintendent, Experimental

ed to the present Farm of 427) rarm, has always been a mem-

acres. the Advanced i In 1915 a Field Laboratory, for or the Province. Busey

the purpose of studying potato Abegweit ween |

diseases, was established at the seneunee: ee ee

Experimental_Farm, Charlotte -/teq at the Experimental Farm,

town, with Dr. Paul A. Murphy, | Charlottetown, and was first in-

the first Plant Pathologist in| troduced to the farmers of Prince

Charge. A program of research | Faward Island in 1947. It ia still

on potato diseases was initiated widely grown.

and this resulted in the deviop- c

ment of a sound inspection ser-| ILLUSTRATION STATIONS

vice for seed potatoes. The work} Six illustration Stations were at the Plant Pathology Labora- | established in 1923. The Magdalen

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DR. J. A- CLARK Supt., 1909 - 1947

RACE TRACK WAS LEVELLED AFTER 1948 UPTON FARM ACQUISITION

Since Small ‘09 Beginning

The Experimental Farm for | Canada was set up at the Experi- played an important role in 1933 Department of Agriculture om & | for swine, the first im Canada, | trol

| shrubs was planted in 1910 and

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in establishing the fact that brown heart of turnips was due to a lack of Boron in the soil. In that year, 200 plots on ten| iMustration Stations were | aid) down. Only plots, receiving Bo-| ron-showed any appreciable con-

Six crop rotations were started in 1912. Three of these con- tinue to the present day. - SOIL LABORAORY

An orchard of 160 apple trees) (70 varieties) was planted in 1910, and a collection of 1259 trees and

1911 for ornamental purposes.

The Soil Laboratory, at the Ex- perimental Farm, Charlottetown, | was organized in 1944 for the, purpose of conducting soil analy- ges__in connection with the soil survey_of the Province.

The nucleus of a polied Ayr- shire herd was begun with the)

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acquisition of a polled Ayrshire’

tory was transferred to the/ {Islands came under our juris-| Science Service in 1937, which| diction with the transfer of the now maintains a Laboratory and/ qjustration Stations to the Char- |

When Dr. Saunders saw the

A series of fertilizer and cul- tural experiments were started, ‘ould order " Ghariottetown No. 80 barley, a| in co-operation with the Chemistry These two-rowed variety with a marked | Division, Ottawa, in 1915, and

tendency to drop ite awns, was! since that time, data on the value selected in 1912 and re-| of commercial fertilizers for farm

that extended) gi, variety has been the leading thousands of plots on the Ex- Edward Island,| perimental Farm and Iflustre- tion Stations. -

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