We also experimented on cattle and sheep. The cattle were all cut bulls – Steers. The cattle pens were an acre and a quarter. These were seeded with different kinds of seeds. Every two weeks the cattle would get weighed and shifted from one pasture area to another. There were three different pastures they had to be shifted from. When they would get to #3 area, the next weigh in they'd get moved back to #1 pasture again. It took five miles of wire to fence the cattle pasture. The sheep pasture was much the same. Different types of seed on each area. They'd go to three different pasture areas, getting weighed each time. That was every two weeks, before they would start over on #1 pasture again. Every time they were weighed and moved to another area, we had to give them needles and medicines. When we were laid off in October or November, the cattle and sheep would be brought out to Mt. Pearl and sold off. Now, we also cut and bailed hay. We put twenty ton of bailed hay in the one stack. We had it good – the best of machinery, but we also had plenty of hard work. We got some overtime and were paid double time for that. We got no time off for overtime. They gave me a picture (collage of 8 to 10 smaller pictures) when I retired.

Scene from Experimental Farm
Colinet (known as the Bog Lands)

Scene from Experimental Farm
Colinet (known as the Bog Lands)