. Agri-news. Agriculture. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE EARLY WORK ON GREY WOODED SOILS by C. E. Yauch former District Agriculturist with Alberta Agriculture at Lethbridge and High River. Forage trial (red clover and timothy mixture) at Breton in the late 1930's. George Delong (left) standing behind the check plot and Charlie Yauch (right) standing behind a plot fertilized with ammonium sulphate containing 25 percent sulphur. It was in the middle of the 1930's that James Murray, while principal of the Olds School of Agriculture (OSA) became aware of the plight of farmers in the Sundre district. They w
. Agri-news. Agriculture. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE EARLY WORK ON GREY WOODED SOILS by C. E. Yauch former District Agriculturist with Alberta Agriculture at Lethbridge and High River. Forage trial (red clover and timothy mixture) at Breton in the late 1930's. George Delong (left) standing behind the check plot and Charlie Yauch (right) standing behind a plot fertilized with ammonium sulphate containing 25 percent sulphur. It was in the middle of the 1930's that James Murray, while principal of the Olds School of Agriculture (OSA) became aware of the plight of farmers in the Sundre district. They were trying to grow crops on very low fertility grey wooded soils, and several of them had come into the district from the dried-out areas of southeastern Alberta. At that time I was instructing in sciences and soils at OSA during the winter and was assigned to various duties during the summer months or was unemployed for a month or two as was common in those years. I had worked in the soils laboratory at the University of (cont'd) hone (403) 427-2127 ydlbcrra AGRICULTURE Communications Division. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Alberta. Alberta Agriculture. Communications Branch; Alberta. Alberta Agriculture. Print Media Branch; Alberta. Alberta Agriculture, Food and Rural Development. Publishing Branch. [Edmonton] : Communications Branch, Alberta Dept. of Agriculture
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