This is from: The White Fence, Issue #3, October 1997 - THE FISHER
MODEL FARM AT FROSTY HOLLOW - Editorial

”F.A. Fisher brought the first French-Canadian Cape Rouge horses from
Quebec. Cibella de Cape Rouge was one of the brood mares and Cyrano
de Cape Rouge was the stud. With these two foundation horses, he
raised horses for general purpose work on the farm. Then he brought
in a thoroughbred stallion named "Perlapides" for crossing with the
French-Canadian mare to produce a strong flat-boned hunter-type
horse. Other breeds of draft horses are inclined to round bone, a
trait that they pass on to their offspring, but the French Canadian
breed did not and it was a very successful cross. A farmer from
Prince Edward Island bought some of F.A.'s mares and bred some
excellent hunters from them and competed very successfully with them.

Around the time of World War I, F.A. Fisher (F.A. as he was then
known by all) was president of the Enterprise Foundry and lived in
the house now owned by Dr. Laing Ferguson on the corner of Main and
Queen's Road (formerly known as Boultenhouse Road) in Sackville.
Around 1920, F.A. bought a 750 acre parcel of woodland in Frosty
Hollow on which he built three houses and a barn. One house was to
serve as a summer home for him and his family, which by then
included five children, and a house for the manager of the farm and
one for the hired hand. Today, this property is owned by Mr. Bob
Kaye who purchased the property after Mr. Fisher died in 1957.

Mr. Fisher's farm included a cattle barn with a silo, probably built
by special design, as was the horse barn. The barn was constructed
in the shape of an E without the middle bar. In other words, it
consisted of one long building with two shorter ones at either end,
one for the stallions and a forge and the other for the riding
horses and brood mares. In the center of the long building was a
large space for the hay wagons which were driven into in order to
fill the hay mow overhead and for the stable manager to pull down
the hay at feeding time.

The horses never had to be taken to the blacksmith, the latter
simply arrived and fired up the forge in the stallion barn. The
visiting farmer typically looked over the barn very slowly and
usually said something to the effect: "Well, it's a fine lookin'
buildin' but a hell of a lookin' barn!"

F.A.'s crop production was usually far in excess of that of farmers
using traditional methods of the day and that was a source of great
wonderment in the farming community. For one thing, F.A.'s methods
included an early form of organic farming; every bit of organic
waste went back into the land.

There were trails and bridle paths built throughout the Frosty
Hollow Farm woods with special paths where the slope of the land was
an invitation to canter. The horses were a great passion with F.A.
and they always brought home their share of ribbons from the old
Maritime Winter Fair in Amherst and other shows in Halifax, Truro
and Saint John.”