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experimental station
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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one of a number of farms operated by the federal government for the purpose of making available to Canadian farmers the results of scientific research and experiment in agriculture and keeping them informed on agricultural developments.
See: experimental farm
Quotations
1912
The corn and tomatoes do not always ripen fully, but the experiment station is only three years old and the superintendent is confident of getting them yet.
1958
. . . and as the Dominion Experimental Station was not established until 1914, they did not play a part in laying out the early plantings.