REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR 



73 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



BUILDING AND FENCING. 



A comfortable cottage lias been built for the farm foreman. The fence around the 

 Station has been neatly painted, and the land purchased has also been fenced. In 

 all, approximately 2i miles of woven wire fencing have been erected. 



EXHIBITIONS. 



In conjunction with the Kosthern Station, an exhibit was staged at the Saskatoon 

 Summer Fair. 



VISITORS. 



Nearly 900 people visited the Station during the past year. An excursion of 

 farmers from the surrounding district visited the Station in July. 



MEETINGS ATTENDED. 



Since his appointment in August, the acting Superintendent has attended the 

 Superintendents' conference in Ottawa in January, addressed meetings at twenty-two 

 points in southern Saskatchewan, in connection with the Patriotism and Production 

 campaign, and has spoken at a number of local Farmers' Institute meetings. He also 

 assisted in the selection and laying out of a few of the Illustration Stations in the 

 soiuhern part of the province. 



Some -Weather Observations taken at Scott Experimental Station, 1914-15. 



Month. 



101-i. 



April 



May 



June 



July 



August 



^epieniber. 



October 



Jsov ember. 

 December. . 



1915. 



January 



P'ebruary. . , 

 March 



Total for yea: 



Temperature F. 



Mean. 



37-8 



49-0 



5G-9 



07 



59 



55 



41 



23 GO 

 2-57 



1-49 

 13-27 

 4M 



Highest. 



76-5 

 820 

 850 

 96-8 

 90-5 

 800 

 70 1 

 51-8 

 24-8 



31-8 

 30-2 

 44-8 



Lowest. 



91 

 18-4 

 34- 1 

 35-2 

 30-2 

 28-2 

 18-2 

 -17-3 

 -23-3 



-420 

 -10-8 



- 4-8 



Rainfall. 



Inches. 



36 

 05 

 37 

 80 

 41 

 46 

 17 



14 -62 



Precipitatiox. 



Snow-fall. 



Inches. 

 ""\.Q 



60 

 180 



1-0 



1-5 



•5 



28-0 



Total. 



Inches. 



1-36 

 115 

 2-37 

 ■80 



41 

 40 

 17 

 00 

 80 



•10 

 •15 

 •05 



17-42 



Heaviest 

 in 24 hrs. 



Inches. 



•22 

 ■46 

 •95 

 ■55 

 •20 

 ■75 

 •60 

 •60 



•10 

 •10 

 ■05 



Total 

 I'unsiiinp. 



Hours. 



184. 

 295 • 

 211^ 



5 

 4 

 4 



309 

 235-1 

 192-8 

 143-7 

 100-4 

 20-3 



89-0 

 1115 

 216-7 



2,115-4 



EXPERIMENTAL STATION, LETHBRIDGE, ALTA. 



THE SEASON. 



The season of 1914, on account of the very severe drought, will long be remembered 



as the most trying since settlement has taken place. In some localities, 1910 was just 

 as unfavourable, but the areas affected were more restricted. The rainfall was a little 

 greater near the foothills country on the west and along the Aldersyde branch of the 

 Canadian Pacific' railway from Carmangay northwest, but over the balance of southern 



