Journal of Agriculture. 



[8 Jan., 1908. 



Best Fallow, not Less than 80 Acres. 

 In this section there were onlv six entries, which, considering the im- 

 portance of fallow land, is disappointing. In this district, where farming 

 methods are on the up-grade, I consider that the number of entries for 

 fallow should be much larger. It is quite probable that the unsatisfac- 

 tory weather during the months of June. July and August and the conse- 

 quent need for more working in the spring have been the cause of the low 

 entry. 



Best Experimental Work of all Kinds. 



In this matter again. I am sorrv to see such a poor entrv. Small 



DROUGHT reserves. 



trials of new cereal varieties, different kinds and rates of artificial manures, 

 cultivation tests, grasses, trees, (S:c., are all matters in which the progres- 

 sive farmer is profoundlv interested. The Government experimental fields 

 can necessarily onlv reach a very limited number of farmers in a district, 

 and there is thus created the necessitv for parallel tests on different soils to 

 the Government field. 



I award the first prize to Mr. H. E. Dahlenberg for the variety and 

 scope of his experiments which embrace trials with wheat, oat, and barley 

 varieties, the cultivation of flax, the sowing of rye grass and melilotus with 

 his wheat crop, subsoiling, filling up crab holes by means of a land grader, 

 and other minor experiments. Mr. Batson, the only other competitor, is 

 also conducting trials with wheat, oat and barley varieties, rve grass, &c. 



