Results of Experimental Work

(c) A comparatively short and tardy growing season, with a late grain
harvest, followed often by a dry autumn, affording little opportunity for new
seedings of grasses and clovers to make sufficient top and root growth after the
grain has been cut.

(d) Conditions that render it difficult to germinate and destroy weed seeds,
some of which lie over, even in well-fallowed soil, to spring up vigourously when
slow-starting crops like grasses are sown. This complicates the problem of
seeding down without nurse crops.

(e) Lack of natural inoculation of the clovers commonly employed in
rotation cropping.

(f) A comparatively brief and tardy season during which soil temperature is
high enough for nitrification, resulting in a very limited nitrogen supply to all
crops, save those such as cereals for which a fresh supply of nitrates and other
plant food is liberated by annual cultivation. May not this, especially in view
of the unusually limited moisture supply, have much to do with the well-known
tendency of perennial hay crops to yield sparingly under western conditions.”

The land is well adapted to the growing of vegetables. Carrots, beets,
onions, celery, cabbage, garden peas, beans, tomatoes, lettuce, radish, turnips,
pumpkins and squash give large crops of properly matured vegetables, according
to ‘The Peace River Guide.”

The following tables indicate the results of experimental work over a period
of years with wheat and oats at Beaverlodge.

SPRING WHEATS

Yield Yield Yield
Date Time to Yield per acre | per acre | per acre
Variety of mature per acre, 6-year 3-year 2-year
cutting fully 1920 average average average
1915-20 1918-20 1919-20
days bush. Ibs./bush. Ibs. |bush. Ibs./bush. — Ibs.
ITPA les eos 1s CCIE ET RIE ENG aa Sept. 10.. 115 BAP SUE ep ete srcse eda kis vensaetete clio cnateveds eaatede
FRRECEO DS areal tokens) uctal cist rats anata sree sve kan neni Dake 112 Se OOrahs oheeoeok lowe serous 49 30
1s hid poe Soa Ne ot CIN aD ed oickotd oie base ees unl Oen 115 50 10 43 S1 45 29 48 13
CALL VaUR e ClatL Ce vitae cetsehedeuanecnt st -vesietafer seater s scene l Otra 115 A See) Ohm | eae aaat ereiicll ates aVetaterevereral | onolieve eet stats
TALC See als cha eee at epau tee iagiet oa eouehe Sink st 114 46 21 34 55 40 25 46 18
and 10
ATS: Wien ctieey bd Rae Ree ae cache een Aug. 21... 98 SOPPAOMG| eleven ot reer 32 26 36 S4
MATGUIShODECIAl cas etna leremictebel cierebar pacers Sept. 7 114 LIS ea huoss cu ledenn ppbealloouseedd0
Oats
Esti- Yield Yield Yield Yield
Date mated Yield per acre per acre per acre per acre
Variety of time to per acre 5-year 4-year 3-year 2-year
cutting mature 1920 average average average average
fully 1916-20 1917-20 1918-20 1919-20
days bush. Ibs.|/bush. Ibs.|/bush. Ibs.|bush. Ibs./bush. Ibs.
Waictony inside. eee cet eseDtel te. 116 134 08 106 32 108 33 118 11 126 33
ielile
Banner....... s 113 TARYE IS Ne cies Beic Giol ieee. Cue Ob [ae Ciolnip aioe 130 22
Leader : oe 116 Ode iid eye eis a Wiss amine ol lane aeobisanl [teed can o
Gold Rai 4 se 112 PEO GIy I ego ra Ge ln ered 36 oi ote oito hoe aoe beens
Ligowo.... : $¢ 111 116 06 102 30 106 16 117 16 115 00
Abundance 3 aS 111 Tela (a) Ilene eis les 100 18 111 16 111 13
Tartar Kin 3 3 112 Fy) 2007) | ee Ge | Reese nda cone Moan lade peonets
Liberty... .|Aug. 109} (pea o) hes aa |e oot ney 74 32 72 «24
ae 943 | 85 26
ASL ACICHRING raat ste: aeletaketste's Aug. 20..:....| 944 | 8S 26 Je ee epee ee lene one
PAUDENIEVin~ «larsisiciaeceesesryelsts eg 943 78 28 79 13 83 09 88 12 82 02