DIVISION OF CERE ALU 



1085 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. IS 



EXPERIMENTAL STATION, INVERMERE, B.C. 



G. E. PARHAM, SUPERINTENDENT. 



The season of 1915 -was exceptionally favourable for cereals. The spring opened 

 early, there was an absence of late frost, and, most important of all, an abundance of 

 rain during the vitally important growing months of June and July. Harvesting was 

 conducted under favourable conditions, and the grain threshed was in every case an 

 excellent sample. 



The experiments in this division, which were inaugurated this year, are arranged 

 in a system of rotations, with the idea of supplying the much-needed hunuis to the 

 soil. This is to be done by alternating crops of cereals and legumes. The legumes 

 used, viz., clover and peas, are ploughed under during the season alternating with 

 the cereal crop. Clover is sown with the cereal as a nurse crop, one cutting is taken 

 off during the next season, and at the time the second cut is ready it is ploughed under. 

 The peas, when sown as the alternating crop, are ploughed under when the pods are 

 commencing to form. The light yield, as will be seen from the accompanying tables, 

 is accounted for by the fact that the work done this year was undertaken without 

 preparation of soil, such as the rotations now inaugurated will provide. 



SPRING WHEAT. 



Three varieties, as below, were tested on duplicate plots; the following table shows 

 the particulars noted : — 



Plot. 



Variety. 



Huron. . 

 Marquis 

 Pioneer. 



Huron. . 

 Marquis 

 Pioneer. 



Date of 



Sowing. 



April 13. 

 " 13. 

 " 13. 



Date of 

 Ripening. 



Aug. 12, 

 " 12. 

 " 9. 



No. of days 

 Maturing. 



122 

 122 

 119 



Yield per 

 acre. 



Lb. 



1,320 

 1,440 

 1,320 



Weight per 



measured 



bu.?hel. 



Lb. 



64 



67-0 



67-0 



B. 



April 13. 

 " 13. 

 " 13. 



Aug. 12. 

 " 12. 

 " 9. 



122 

 122 



119 



1,360 

 1,400 

 1,400 



64-0 

 67-5 

 67-0 



The above plots received one irrigation on June 12. 



