DirisIOX OF CE HEALS 



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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



EXPEEIMEXTS WITH RYE (NOX -IRRIGATED). 



One variety of spring rye and one variety of winter rye were tested. Tlie former 

 was sown on backsetting' and the latter on summer-fallow. 



EXPEKI-MKXTS WITH RvK (Nox-IRRIGATED.) 



Variety. 



Spring rye.. 

 Winter rye. 



Dale Sown. 



Date Ripe. 



April 12, 1913 



September 1, 1912. 



Aug. 23. 

 July 2 . . 



Yield jAverage Yi.ld 

 per \cre ^^^^ '^f re 



' * ■ for Two Years. 



Bush 



20 

 30 



Lb. ;BuKh. 



20 

 9 



1!) 

 31 



Lb. 



4G 

 31 



FLAX. 



Two varieties of flax were tested. They were both sown on backsetting. The size 

 of the plots in each case was one-sixtietli of an acre. 



Fl.^x (Xcix-]rrigated). 



BUCKWaiEAT (XOX-IRRIGATED). 



Two varieties were sown on backsetting on June 2. They w?ere both slightly 

 frosted before ripening, but in 1912 very good results were obtained. 



BlCKWHEAT (X(JX-JRRIGATED) — TeST OF VARIETIES. 



16—53 



Lethbridge. 



