------ % During the last thiee years Mr. 'Don H. Bark, Chief of the Irrigation In tion Division of the Depart ment of Natural Resources of the ICanadian Pasific Railway, bas been EB conducting 8 number of experiments | Sn the growing of clover seed in {Southern Alberta, and has met with, surprising success. Before coming Ro Alberta in 1915, Mr. Bark was for peyeral years connected with various |trrigation enterprises in Idaho, His experienced eye noticed that the clo- wer. growing on lawns, ditch banks, snd waste places in Alberta, from the botmdary line to as far north as Ed- mnonton, gave promise of good re- sults. This promise was fully con- Bs firmed when he shelled hundreds of § heads that he gathered. , They re- vealed a large quantity ot need of unusually good quality. The following year, therefore, he , Brranged Dor several plots to be Pidineg on the various Demonstra- Hallway situated in the irrigation | satisfactory, despite the poor stand | Block; east of Calgary, Alberta. The! and indifferent growth cf the clover. results of these experiments, which! Last year the: yield from this plot] bave been continued ever since, havelwas somewhat better, 205 pounds ot| deen very satisfactory. Not only{sewrd of an cqually good grade being! Save they proved that clover seed broduced, On the ab ve basis, this | can be grown successfully in South-| represents a gross return of more| ern Alberta, but théy have also/than $100 an acre. alown than the seed obtainable Is of! The following example related by! ad exceedingly High quality, with the | Mr. Bark shows the prolific nature of | yield well above the average. | clover .under conditions In Southern! Ome of the largest plcts planted | Alberta : | Oring the first year was three and: In the fall of 1917, a one-dcre lawn] # half acres, Which we.'c planted tofof Kentucky Blue Grass and White alsike clover at Tilley, Alberta. This Clover = at Cassils, a small station rea produced the following year 2.- west of Medicine Hat, on tlje main 617 pounds of an excellent quality of | line of the Canadian Paci Railway, maching run seed per acre; an aver- | appeared to ecntain . emough, ripe age yield " 748 pounds, or approxi-| clover heads so that it would pay to mately twelve and a half bushels, harvest it. This accordingly was per acre. This séed could have been dove,' and the area. threshed 105 sold readily, without recleaning. to) pounds of White Clover seed cf an 'dealers at twenty cents s pound, excellent grade and quality : This which' would have given a gross rev-ijawn, therefore, produced over $50 sue of $149.60 per acre. But such | worth of seed. though it was not was the quality that after a thorough! planted for soe production purposes. Tecleaping, there remained slightly! Mr. Bark has gradually extended over ten bushels per acre of the high- his experiments over a larger terri: edt possible grade of seed. At this tory with equally favourable results. spring's. retall prices each acre pro-| Three and a half. acres planted. to duced & gross revenue of upwards of alsike clover at Rosemary, north of #340, | Brooks, Alberta, were haivested for »*At-the same place another plot, | seed in 1918. and-although the stand comprising itn: an sere and a|was only fair. an average yield of half, was planted ' to white Dutch] 250 pounds of seed per acre was pro- Clover in 1916, This erop had not, duced, Complete records were kept Jooked very well throughout the sea-| | of the ocst of handling this area, and "son, the stand Having been thin and at the 'rate of forty cents per hour fhe growth rather Indifferent, yet a per man, and fifteen cehts &n hour Rota! yleld of 205 pounds of 'seed of per horse, worked out at $62.07, or an excellent kind were sccurcd from $17.73 per acre. this area in 1917. The average yield duced was 865 polnds," which at was 142 pounds per acre, As this! twenty cents a pound. ls worth $177. (1) Alsike clover at Carseland, Alberta.' (2) Field of alsike clover at Tilley, Alberta. tion Farms of the Canadian Pacific] pound, the returns secured were very! therefore, amounted to $114.93, or $36.31 per acre, mot a bad return for one season from land that cost only | ver seed Is now being sold ¢n the The total seed pro-. fifty dollars an acre, although the crop was considered - rather disap- pointing. But much better results were se- cured with white clover on the same farm. Of this, three acres produced 1144 pounds of machine run seed, which when "thoroughly recleaned weighed 1,033 pounds. White clo Calgary and Winnipeg markets at sixty-five cents a pound. The grower, therefore, might reasonably expect to rédelve fifty cents a pound for re- cleaned; seed in large quantities. On this basis the gross return from the three acre plot would bg, no less than $601.50. As in the case'of the alsike clover, the actual cost of handling was carefully kept. It amounted to $110.20 or $86.73 wn acre. = It will be seen, therefore, that the actual net profit from these three acres; was $381.30, or over $130 an acre. With such results it does not take many fcres to provide a man with a good income: Now that the possibilities of grow- ing clover geod on the irrigated lands of Southein Alberta have been prac- tieally demonstrated, it will not be long before évery farmor in the dig- trict 1s growing at least a few acres. The demand for high-class seed is so great, and likely to be greater in the glut on the market is very remote; and the grower can rely cn good prices. "There is little doubt that within the next few years the indus try will asstime considerable propor' soed was worth at least fifty cents a|The sot profit from the three deres; SN SS tons in Southern Alberta. Tr ar near DIED AT CAPE VINCENT, John B. F id Pas Passes Away at _ Cape Vincent, April 23.--John B. Hijageraid, «sixty-six years of age, died at his home on Friday af- der a short illness. = Mr. Fitzgerald suffered a stroke last year and he has not been in good health since that time. Mr. Fitzgerald was, born in the town 'of Clayton, Aug. 24th, 1852. From 878 until (1917 he 'resided cent, having 'a farm there. He came to the village to reside two years ago. He is survived by his widow, one son, Frank D., of Grena- adler Island; two daughiers, Mrs. Leo B. Dermady, of Grenadier land, and Mrs. Henry Peacock, of Detroit, Mich,; four brothers, Dan- lel L.; of Cape Vineent; WHilam H., of Pamela; Morris G. ang Kugene C., of Cape "Vincent, and by one' sister, Mrs. Evereton Snyder, of Clayton. " on Grenadier Island, off Cape Vin | Is} 2 Submarines. 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