70 EXPERJVE\T.\T F\P^r.^ 



6 GEORGE V, A. 1916 

 EXPERIMENTAL WORK. 



The experimental work begun in 1911 in cultural methods has been eoutiuued 

 but, owing- to irregular areas being affected by alkali, the results have been anything 

 but satisfactory. Experiments seeking the relative merits of varieties have been con- 

 tinued in cereals, legumes, roots, corn, and potatoes. Last year there were some hybrid 

 beardless barleys, originate'd by Dr. Chas. Saunders, tried with very satisfactory results. 

 A number of varieties that had proved unsatisfactory in previous years were discarded 

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farmers' ]:xcur.sioxs axd visitors. 



With the co-operation of the Canadian Northern Railway, an excursion to the 

 Experimental Station was arranged for July 9 from points west of Prince Albert as 

 far as Blaine Lake and east as far as Tisdale. Special trains were run for the occa- 

 sion, arriving at 11 a.m^ and leaving at 5 p.m. 



Assistance was rendered by the Superintendent of the Lidian Head Experimental 

 Fai-m and members of the staff of the LTniversity of Saskatchewan. Upwards of three 

 hundred farmers, with their wives and families, availed themselves of the holiday, and 

 altogether the event was so satisfactory to both the railway officials and the manage- 

 ment of the Experimental Station as to warrant them in making it an annual affair. 



EXHIBITIONS. 



The Rosthern and Scott Experimental Stations joined in making an exhibit at 

 the Saskatoon and Prince Albert Exhibitions, representative of the work done at 

 the two Stations. There was a display of fruits, vegetables, flowers, grains, and fodder 

 crops. The exhibit was in charge of an ofHcer from the Central Farm, who also dis- 

 played the work of the various Divisions at Ottawa. This exhibit elicited much fav- 

 ourable comment from both the visitors at the exhibitions and the Exhibition Boards. 



MEETINGS ATTENDED. 



The Superintendent attended a conference* of Experimental Farm Sxiperintendents 

 and Dominion Farm officers iit Ottawa during January, and attended a series of 

 twenty-five meetings on Patriotism and Production held in various parts of the north 

 of the province during February and March. 



ADDITION TO THE STATION. 



During the past year the Government extended the area of the Experimental 

 Station by the addition of three quarter-sections and a striji of 15 acres along the 

 Canadian Northern railway. The Station now comprises almost a complete section, 

 besides the strip along the railway, a total area of nearly 650 acres. The new land 

 is mostly level and very uniform, and will lend itself satisfactorily to experimental 

 work. It has been cropped for several years and is in rather poor tilth, and most of itj 

 will have to be summer-fallowed the coming season. 



NEW B'jILDINGS. 



In the summer of 1914 a foreman's house was built 22 feet by 2G feet, two stories 1 

 high, with full cement basement, hot-air furnace, waterworks and sewage disposal.] 

 The water pressure is obtained from a tank 2 feet by 2^ by 5 feet in the attic •' 

 and the supply is obtained from a well just outside the house, and may be pumiced' 

 either by hand or by gasoline engine power. The whole plan lends itself admirably to 

 the requirements of an ordinary farm. 



