DOMINION EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 127 



EXPERIMENTAL STATION 



FOR 



SOUTHERN ALBERTA, 



LETHBRIDGE, ALTA. 



The Experimental Station at Lethbridge consists of 400 

 acres, located one mile east of the corporate limits of the City 

 of Lethbridge, and is crossed by the Crow's Nest branch of 

 the Canadian Pacific Railway. 



This land, together with the water rights, was donated to 

 the Dominion Government by the Alberta Railway and Irriga- 

 tion Company. A strip of land on the east side of the farm, 

 running north and south and containing 100 acres, is irrigable; 

 the remaining 300 is non-irrigable, being devoted to experi- 

 mental work under ''dry-farming" conditions. 



The soil is quite uniform throughout, being a dark- grey 

 loam, similar to a great deal of the soil in this district, although 

 perhaps slightly lighter in character than some. The farm 

 was all virgin prairie when possession was obtained. 



A barn 38 feet by 72 has since been erected. The greater part 

 of the ground floor is laid out in stalls for the work horses, but 

 one end is partitioned off for carriages. On the second floor 

 is a room in which the feed bins are located. The rest of the 

 space is used as a hay loft. 



Another building, 78 feet by 28, has been built, the ground 

 floor of which is used for the storing of implements and tools, 

 with sufficient room at one end to operate a small threshing 

 machine. The upper floor is used as a general work room and 

 storage place for grains. 



A house for the Superintendent and a cottage, used as a 

 boarding house for the men, have also been built. 



The experimental work at this Station is, therefore, of a two 

 fold character, most of the field experiments on the non-irrigated 

 portion being duplicated on the irrigated part of the farm. In 

 connection with the latter, valuable information relative to 

 the actual amount of water required to irrigate various crops 

 is being collected, all the water turned from the Irrigation Com- 

 pany's ditch for use on the farm being measured by self- 

 recording registers, so that the amount used for each day and for 

 each crop is known. The accumulation of such data for a 



