212 REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE, 
Normal Precipitation. 
The following table shows the average annual precipitation observed 
at the stations named: ? 
1888-1907. 
Inches Inches 
Calgary (20 years’ observation) . 16°30 | Qu’Appelle (20 years’ observations) 15°84 
Medicine Hat a selon kl | Mimiedosa 93 . 17°36 
Edmonton - . 1820 | Winnipeg a . 2081 
Battleford Hy Ae) | Macleod (14 years’ observations) 13:15 
Prince Albert is . 16°60 | Brandon . . 17°38 
Swift Current a » 15:90 
Table showing Dates of First Occurrence of Sowing, Hay-cutting, and Grain-cutting 
in the North- West in Successive Year's since 1905. 
— | Sowing Hay-cutting Grain-cutting 
1905 | 
Alberta . sal — July 20 First week in August | 
at Edmonton 
Saskatchewan | — — July 25 
Manitoba “i, — _ First week in August 
| | 
1906 | | 
Alberta . . | 90 per cent. of wheat July 12 | Wheat-cutting general 
| in by the end of | | by middleof August. | 
| April. Oats sown | Barley 4th. Oats | 
‘in first week of | | 13th | 
May | 
Manitoba . | Wheat-sowing on | — August 4 
April 30. Oat- | | 
sowing finished | 
April 30. Barley 
later 
1907 | Harvest began gene- 
Alberta . | Gea me | rally on September 5, 
Saskatchewan | og | M see | _ except in far nor- 
Manitoba ) . y thern Alberta, where | 
no crops ripened 
1908 | 
Alberta . 5 ‘| Wheat and oats Haying com- Wheat-cutting middle | 
Saskatchewan. |; 2 in. to 3 in. |  pletedJuly 24 of August 
Manitoba ) high by May 31 
General Calendar of the Scasons. 
| — | Manitoba Saskatchewan Alberta | 
| 
1905 Good year. Large | Good year. | Dry spring in west and | 
yield Large yield. north centre of pro- | 
| ‘Stinking vince. Rains in 
| | smut preva- June,with two frosts. 
| | lent’ Harvest | weather 
. good | 
1906 Large crop, but de- | Early season. | Winter mild. Light | 
| ficient average Hot winds in snowfall. Heavy | 
| | yield reported July. Grain rains in May. Dry | 
prematurely and warm in June | 
ripened. and July. Hot and 
Yield per acre dry in August 
reported less 
than 1905 
1 JT am indebted to Mr. R. F. Stupart, Director of the Dominion Meteoro- 
logical Department, for compiling these statistics, 
