100 DOMINION EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 



EXPERIMENTAL FARM 



FOR 



SOUTHERN SASKATCHEWAN, 



INDIAN HEAD, SASK. 



The Experimental Farm at Indian Head consists of some 

 680 acres, comprising Section 19, Township 18, Range 12, west 

 of the 2nd Meridian and 42 acres of the adjoining section to 

 the south. The farm Hes one half-mile east of the centre of the 

 town of Indian Head, on the main line of the C.P.R. It is 44 

 miles east of Regina, the capital of Saskatchewan, 108 miles 

 north of the United States boundary, and 103 miles west of the 

 boundary of Manitoba. It was purchased in 1887 and experi- 

 mental work began in 1888. 



The southern part of the farm consists of a sandy loam, 

 while the northern portion is a clayey soil, with a clay subsoil 

 underlying all. Two creeks run through the farm, one entering 

 on the south and the other on the west. Both pass out on the 

 north and join the Qu'Appelle River a few miles away. These 

 creeks and their ravines afford good drainage to the entire farm 

 and at the same time, add to its appearance. The water from 

 these streams, though more or less alkaline, was for some years 

 the source of supply for the needs of the farm, which is now, 

 however, connected with the water system of the town of 

 Indian Head. 



The present Superintendent, Mr. Angus Mackay, was 

 appointed in 1887 and has had charge since that time. 



The twenty-four years since the establishing of the farm 

 at Indian Head has seen the West develop and change from an 

 unsettled country, with nothing known of its agricultural 

 possibilities beyond the fact that first-class wheat could be 

 grown, when not destroyed by frost, to a country rapidly filling 

 with the best class of settlers, traversed by transcontinental 

 railroads and their branches and with all the comforts and 

 resources of civilization at its doors. The work of the Experi- 

 mental Farm has expanded with the growing needs and pos- 

 sibilities of the country; it may with justice be said to have led 

 the way in providing for the increasing complexity of the demands 

 on the agricultural resources of the West by careful and per- 

 sistent experimenting along many lines. 



