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DRY FARMING 



CALGARY. 



days of this month and to occasion considerable loss as 

 a result of interference with the harvest of potatoes and 

 roots as well as with the late threshing of cereals. The 

 possibility of snowfall at this time should also have an 

 important bearing on the plans of the stockman for 

 the feeding and management of his animals. 



Hail storms 

 are most fre- 

 quent between 

 the middle of 

 July and the 

 middle of Au- 

 gust. They may 

 occur early in 

 June or as late 

 as the last of 

 Septemjber. As 

 to whether some 

 districts are 

 " subject " t v» 

 hail and others 

 not, there is 

 much discussion 

 but little reli- 

 able data. Most 

 hail insurance 

 companies 

 charge slightly 

 higher premiums in some parts of the foothill country 

 and immediately east of it than in the central and 

 eastern parts. The possibility of hail suggests the ad- 

 visability of not putting all one's eggs in a single 

 basket^ in other words of having some source of reve- 



e t-INE.S SHOWING AVEKAGE. PEECIPrrATION FOR 5.YRS 



Fig. 11. — ^Variations from Normal Precipitation. 

 The heavy vertical lines indicate the average 

 precipitation at Calgary, Qu'Appelle and Winni- 

 peg. The horizontal lines show the actual pre- 

 cipitation by years. The crooked lines represent 

 the average precipitation in five-year periods and 

 illustrate the variations from the normal. 



