. Dry farming in western Canada . Fig. 74.—Oats on Irrigated Alfalfa Sod. —Courtesy Department of Interior. withstand the prairie winter are now available for all except the higher altitudes. Bui the crop is so expensive to get under way. and yields so little in dry years and is so difficult to break up thai it is not a good rotation crop. Peas do well in the more moist regions bu1 suf- fer from drought in the dry hell and from fall frosts in the north. Red clover is not hardy enough for com- mercial use, exeept in favored areas and in mixtures of grass. Sweet clover seems now to offer the gre
. Dry farming in western Canada . Fig. 74.—Oats on Irrigated Alfalfa Sod. —Courtesy Department of Interior. withstand the prairie winter are now available for all except the higher altitudes. Bui the crop is so expensive to get under way. and yields so little in dry years and is so difficult to break up thai it is not a good rotation crop. Peas do well in the more moist regions bu1 suf- fer from drought in the dry hell and from fall frosts in the north. Red clover is not hardy enough for com- mercial use, exeept in favored areas and in mixtures of grass. Sweet clover seems now to offer the greatesl promise as a rotation legume for the prairies. Hardy strains of red clover may be found satisfactory in the
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