. A guide to the experimental farms and stations ... h year.—Corn, all plots. All commercial fertilizers to be applied on the surface eachspring before seeding. Barnyard manure to be applied on surface and worked in infall before corn. Grass land to be ploughed shallow after one crop hay andkept cultivated rest of season preceding corn. Experiment No. 13. UNDERDRAINING. 1.—No drainage. 2.—No drainage. 3.—Well 4 X 4 X 6 deep, drain 3 deep. 4.—No drainage. 5.—No drainage. 6.—No drainage. 7.—Well 4 X 4 X 6 deep, drain 4 deep. 8.—No drainage. 9.—No drainage. For this work, only nine plots will be
. A guide to the experimental farms and stations ... h year.—Corn, all plots. All commercial fertilizers to be applied on the surface eachspring before seeding. Barnyard manure to be applied on surface and worked in infall before corn. Grass land to be ploughed shallow after one crop hay andkept cultivated rest of season preceding corn. Experiment No. 13. UNDERDRAINING. 1.—No drainage. 2.—No drainage. 3.—Well 4 X 4 X 6 deep, drain 3 deep. 4.—No drainage. 5.—No drainage. 6.—No drainage. 7.—Well 4 X 4 X 6 deep, drain 4 deep. 8.—No drainage. 9.—No drainage. For this work, only nine plots will be required. These plotsshould be so located as to permit of tile drains being laid fromplots 3 and 7 with a good fall into a suitable outlet, natural orartificial. All plots to be in same range. Crops would be:— 1911.—Wheat, all plots. 1912.—Wheat, all plots. 1913.—Summer-fallow, all plots. Apply 6 tons manure per acre, fall or winter, on the ploughed6 stubble first year after summer-fallow. DOMINION EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 155. 156 DOMINION EXPERIMENTAL FARMS EXPERIMENTAL FARM BRITISH COLUMBIA, AGASSIZ, The Farm at Agassiz was purchased by the DominionGovernment in 1888 and possession was obtained in September,1889. It is situated at the station of the same name on themain line of the C. P. R., seventy miles east of Farm lies under the shadow of Mount Cheam, about oneand one-half miles from the Fraser River and five miles fromHarrison Lake. The property consists of some 1,400 acres, 300 of whichhave been, or can be, brought under cultivation. Theremainder is mountain or bench land, which was purchasedto preserve the fine growth of t mber trees on it and also to testthe possibility of setting out orchards on the mountain slopes,where the situation made it otherwise impossible to make useof the land. The soil is a loam, of varying quality, underlaid withgravel. Near the mountain it is more peaty in nature, butfertile when cleared and drain
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