DIVISION OF FIELD HUSBANDRY 

 SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



137 



EXPERIMENTAL STATION FOR CENTRAL QUEBEC. 



CAP ROUGE, QUE. 



REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT, G. A. LANGELIER. 



WEATHEE CONDITIONS, 1912. 



The past season was the most unfavourable which the farmer of this district has 

 experienced for a quarter of a century. The month of April was cold and the snow 

 disappeared slowly. In May, seeding was retarded by the excessive rainfall, which 

 occurred on fourteen different days between the seventh and the thirty-first. The wet 

 weather continued into June, there being precipitation during thirteen of the first 

 eighteen days of the month. This was followed by a drought which extended from the 

 twentieth of June until the end of July. The land, which had been repeatedly flooded, 

 was then parched and cracked, and the late sown crops germinated poorly. August was 

 wet and cold, and those who delayed haying for finer weather found little opportunity 

 to cure it properly. Grain grew well, but corn, potatoes and roots were at a standstill. 

 September continued damp and cloudy, sunshine averaging only a little over three 

 hours a day. Corn did not grow well, and was practically a total failure throughout 

 the district. In October, rain fell on seventeen days, making it difficult to harvest the 

 grain in good condition. Much of it was still green when cut, and seed, as a rule, 

 was of poor quality. November continued dull. On the twenty-sixth the ground froze 

 up so that no further field work could be done. 



Some Weather Observations taken at Cap Eouge Experimental Station, 1912. 



Month. 



January . . . 

 February . . 



March , 



April 



May 



June 



July 



August. . . , 



September. 



October 



November. 



December. 



Total. 



Temperature F. 



34 

 35 

 43 

 60 

 80 

 83 

 92 

 77 

 74 

 72 

 59 

 47 



Precipitation. 



Highest. Lowest. Mean. 



-24 



-19- 



-14- 



5' 



26- 



35- 



44' 



39- 



31- 



28- 



10- 



-13- 



•94 

 •00 

 •28 



35 

 ■31 

 •18 

 •81 

 •20 

 •37 

 •94 



92 

 •83 



Rainfall. Snowfall 



Inches. 

 0-28 





 2 

 8 

 3 

 

 10 

 3 

 2 

 2 

 1 



23 

 78 

 08 

 01 

 92 

 21 

 34 

 74 

 94 

 04 



35 57 



Inch 



08. 



347 



215 



21-7 



20 



20-3 

 20 2 



120 4 



Total. 



Total 

 Sunshine. 



Inches. 



3 

 2 

 2 

 2 

 8 

 3 

 

 10 

 3 

 2 

 4 

 3 



75 

 15 



40 

 98 

 08 

 01 

 92 

 21 

 34 

 74 

 97 

 06 



4761 



Hours. 



79 



63 



165 



215 



194 



212 



224 



138 



91 



87 



26 



39 





 ■3 



•3 



•2 











•7 







■2 



■0 



■2 



•5 



1,535 4 



