. A guide to the experimental farms and stations ... operations in this district;the problem of conservation of moisture must be taken intoaccount. For the past twenty-one years, the average rainfallduring the six months of growth, April to October, has been1293 inches, showing the necessity of preserving this moisturein the soil as long as possible by suitable methods of cultivation,applied at the proper season, if the crops are to have sufficientfor good growth. The testing of varieties of cereals, roots, grasses and clovers,including alfalfa, and of flowers, trees and shrubs has beencarried
. A guide to the experimental farms and stations ... operations in this district;the problem of conservation of moisture must be taken intoaccount. For the past twenty-one years, the average rainfallduring the six months of growth, April to October, has been1293 inches, showing the necessity of preserving this moisturein the soil as long as possible by suitable methods of cultivation,applied at the proper season, if the crops are to have sufficientfor good growth. The testing of varieties of cereals, roots, grasses and clovers,including alfalfa, and of flowers, trees and shrubs has beencarried on continuously since the farm was established. Varie-ties which have proved inferior have been discarded fromtime to time; others, after some years of partial failure becameacclimatized, and are now grown with almost uniform success. The development of varieties of garden and orchard fruitsand of ornamental trees and shrubs suitable to the prairie countryhas always been one of the chief aims of this farm. When the 102 DOMINION EXPERIMENTAL FAHMS. An Avenue at Indian Head.
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