DIVISION OF CEREALS 1083 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



EXPERIMENTS AT FORT PROVIDENCE, MACKENZIE 



DISTRICT. 



The season of 1915 was on the whole favourable for cereals. The plots, however, 

 suffered considerably from the prolonged drought which occurred in the summer, and 

 from the heavy frosts about the middle of June. 



The following varieties of grain were tested: Prelude and Marquis wheats; Man- 

 churiau and Success barleys: Eighty Day and Ligowo oat«; and Arthur peas. These 

 were all sown on the 23»d of April and ripened between the 25th of July and the 8th 

 of August. 



