460 



EXPERIMES TAL FA RMS 



2 GEORGE V., A. 1912 

 APPLE ORCHARD AND SMALL FRUITS. 



There was more or less winter-killing in most of the apple trees, but some of the 

 varieties came through with little injury. This was practically the case with all the 

 cross-bred varieties. The currants and raspberries came through the winter in fair 

 condition, but made only small growth during the summer on account of the dry 

 weather, and no small fruit was produced. 



SUMMARY OF CROPS GROWN EXCLUSIVE OF UNIFORM TEST PLOTS. 



Bushels. 



Winter wheat 448 



Spring wheat 69 



Oats 287 



Total 804 



, PART II.— THE IRRIGATED FARM. 



The yields of grain on the irrigated farm were all relatively low, the principal 

 cause for this being the high mean temperature during the months of April, May 

 and June and the windy weather that prevailed during a good part of this time. The 

 way the season turned out, to have obtained the best results it would have been neces- 

 sary to irrigate the grain the latter part of May or early in June. This was a course 

 we hardly cared to risk, for two reasons : First, because it injures grain to flood irrigate 

 it in the spring before it is through stooling, and second, because, if the land bad been 

 flooded at this time and the usual rains had occurred, which almost invariably come 

 at this season of the year, the grain would have been seriously injured by too much 

 wet. In such a season it would be almost impossible to have obtained particm 

 large crops, no matter when the irrigation was done. Land that had been irrigated the 

 previous fall was, of course, in much better condition to withstand the unusually dry 

 conditions of the spring. But very little of our land was so treated. 



WINTER WHEAT. 



Two small fields of Kharkov wheat were sown on summer-fallow on August '.'.'■'>. 

 1909. One was irrigated in the fall after the grain was up and the other was irrigated 

 in the spring on June 13. 



It is very difficult to offer any explanation for the low yields of these two fieM*. 



