REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR 69 



SESSIONAL PAPER N'o. 16 



JJETEOROLOGICAL UECORDS^ EXPERiilEXTAL FARM/ INDIAN HEAD. 



Month. 



1914. 



April 



May 



June 



July 



August 



September. 



October 



November 

 December. 



1915. 



January 



February . . 

 March 



EXPERIMENTAL STATION, ROSTHERN, SASK 



CHARACTER OF THE SEASON. 



Tlie season of 191-i opened auspiciously; seeding was done in good time and, until 

 the middle of June, growth was more than normal and crops promised a higher than 

 average yield. The expected June and July rains did not come, however, and all crops, 

 especially those put in under any but the most favourable conditions, suffered heavily 

 during July from drought and at harvest time much of the grain was so poorly developed 

 that some fields were not cut. It was a season which sharply defined the careful farmer 

 from the careless one. 



Following i'S the meteorological record for the year April 1, 1914, to March 31, 

 1915:— 



