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Title: Weekly station reports..
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: United States. Bureau of Plant Industry. Division of Dry Land Agriculture United States. Office of Dry-Land Agriculture United States. Office of Dry-Land Agriculture Investigations
Subjects: Agricultural experiment stations, West (U.S.), Periodicals Arid regions, West (U.S.), Periodicals
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Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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plowed, and also \ - sci plats of rots. 41 and 42.Considering the dry condition of the soil, they ail plowed in good shape. The hay crop is short in this section, the pastures are dric1 out, and a goodmany of the cattle men are new shipping their beef, a month or sik weeks earl-ier than usual, A good many too will be short of hay and are reducing thesize of their herd. Another year there will be a good many less cattle in thissection than before, Woo&v/ard: The weather continues hot and dry with no indications of rain. We had onesmall:shower on the night of July 31st, but it was so small that it did notJmake any change in the crops. If it does not begin to rain now pretty soonwe will not have any harvesting to do except on some of the fallows and thatwill be pretty abort. The cowpeas and cotton s er to be the only crops thatare not suffering ftm^tha..continued drought. The *>ilo looks good on the meth-ods of fallow plats, on MCD, and on the rotations where it follows a fallow.
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-4- Woodwar d t (c ont inued)On the other plats it is very short, a little better than, a foot in somecases, and is bad)y rolled and burned*. The broom corn also looks good on themethods of fallow plats and M,C»D. but on the other MX. plats it is badlydamaged. The listed plats are showing up better than the fall or springplowed plats. The sorgo is ?o badly burred that it is beginning to fall overon all the plats but the fallow. On this plat it looks good and is headingThe milo, tooom corn and kafir are heading on the fallow plats, The kafiris standing the. dry weather - better than any of the crops sexcept cowpeas andcotton. The kafir is still green and apparently making some growth on all, theplats but rot. 402 B. where it is short and badly burned. In this case itfallows spring plowed W. wheat* The field corn was cut on all the plats ex-cept M.C.B. on.July 30. It was so badly-burned that on some of the plats itwas lying flat on the ground. There was not efeoufh of it on the plats t

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