REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR 11 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



No work has yet been done in connection with this Station. Here, also, it is expected 

 that the experimental work will consist mainly of tests of varieties of fruits to ascertain 

 those suitable for the district. 



EXPERIMENTAL STATION FOR NORTHERN SASKATCHEWAN. 



Report of Mr. Duncan Anderson on the work which has been done at Scott, Sas- 

 katchewan, during the past fiscal year. 



' Scott, Sask., March 31, 1911. 



' Dr. Wm. Saunders, C.M.G., 



' Director, Dominion Experimental Farms, 

 ' Ottawa. 



' Sir, — This farm is situated on the main line of the Grand Trunk Pacific Rail- 

 way, close to the town of Scott. The town has a population of about 600, and is 103 

 miles west of Saskatoon, and 223 miles east of Edmonton. Scott is the centre of a 

 large area of splendid grain-growing country. The famous Tramping Lake region 

 lies directly south and the well-known Cut-Knife section to the north and west. 



The Farm. 



' The farm consists of 198£ acres and is bounded on the east by the main travelled 

 road leading into the well-settled Tramping Lake District, on the north by the railway 

 and on the south and west by division lines. The surface of the farm is undulating, 

 open prairie, unbroken by either brush or sloughs. One or two small pot-holes and 

 here and there a few stones can be seen. 



The Soil. 



1 The soil is a chocolate-coloured clay loam, of very uniform quality, from twelve 

 to fifteen inches deep, underlaid with a clay subsoil. With the exception of an acre 

 in the north-east comer, which had Leen ploughed by a homesteader, the farm was in a 

 primitive condition. 



' Farming operations were begun on this property on the 16th of May, when 

 drilling for a well was started and in a few days an abundant supply of water was 

 obtained at a depth of sixty-five feet. The flow of the spring is five barrels per hour. 

 The well is situated twenty feet from the south-west corner of the house. 



Breaking. 



'Between May 25 and June 7, one hundred and five acres were broken; seventy- 

 three acres of this were backset and the balance, thirty-two acres, was broken deeply 

 and surface-worked. Ail the breaking was packed directly after the ploughs and thus 

 considerable moisture from the June rains was stored in the soil. 



BreaJcing and Backsetting. 



1 On seventy-three acres, breaking was done shallow, from two and a half to three 

 inches deep, well packed, and left till after harvest, when it was backset five inches 



