00000nam 2200000za 4500 9.824231 CaOODSP 20250303104652 cr ||||||||||| 160915s1939 oncaod|#o f000 0 eng d CaOODSP eng n-cn-ab A12-8/10-1939E-PDF Palmer, A. E. Use of irrigation water on farm crops [electronic resource] / A.E. Palmer. Rev. Ottawa : Department of Agriculture : Division of Field Husbandry, Experimental Farms Service, 1939. 48 p. : ill. Farmers' bulletin ; 10 Cover title. "Issued December 1939." Originally published: 1936. Historical publication digitized by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. Includes bibliographical references: p. 46-48. "In this bulletin are reported the results of experiments with the irrigation of wheat, alfalfa, potatoes, sugar beets, and sunflowers, conducted at the Dominion Experimental Station, Lethbridge. The experiments cover a period of from two to seventeen years. ... These experiments indicate that, including the available water in the soil at the beginning of the season, wheat requires from 1-50 to 1-75 acre-feet of water, alfalfa 1-75 to 2-25 acre-feet and potatoes about 1-50 acre-feet to produce good crops"--p. 44-45. gccst Irrigation Canada. Department of Agriculture. Canada. Experimental Farms Service. Farmers' bulletin (Canada. Department of Agriculture : 1936) 10 (CaOODSP)9.824039 PDF 4.92 MB https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2016/aac-aafc/agrhist/A12-8-10-1939-eng.pdf Publication 509