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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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. Hays: July 22d .85 inches rain was recorded. The weather since then has been verywarm, and part the time windy. Very hot winds yesterday and today. Underthese conditions the >-S5 inches rain first of t he week has done but little goodand crops are suffering apparently as much if not more now than beforeethe rain.All of the early fall plowing will be finished and the gp-crcid. packed today.The ground has plowed very hard and dry. Spring wheat sown on fallow, the onlyspring wheat tall enough to harvest with binder, was threshed the 25th, Thiswas too green to . thresh when other grains were threshed. The best, springwheat on fallow yielded 4.7 bushels per acre. During the week soil moisturedeterminations have been made on most all of the kafir plats, and the M.C,series still has a chance to. make a crop. Lean Jardine visited the station Wednesday the 25th. fcntley: .. The past week has been the warmest ever recorded at this station.. Maximumtemperatures for each day were as follows:
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Huntley; (continued) July 22-97, 23-100, 24-103, 25-93, 26-93, 27-101, 28-103. A little rainfell in the form of light showers, but was of practically no benefit to props *Spring small grain is almost beyond hope now and some of the corn plats,are be-ginning to fire* Winter wheat ryp- and the MC barley, plats were cut eariy inthe week, 9.S, was. dlso a plat of field peaLs and a plat of Tax:erne, grass, for seed.Rogui.ng Of oats and wheat plats on the rotations was 4 completed yesterday. . Maximum., temperature 103, minimum, 55, precipitation *06 inches. Judith Basini Warm dry weather,, continues, t 0 prevail, here , Maximum tempe.rat.ure, for weekminimum 44,, precipitation ,05 inches, evaporation, . 2.3,4$, inches. In spiteof the dry weather the. props on the rotations still retain a good green colorand,,while they.need water they are not suffering to .any, great degree... Seine.corn on, the, brqme rotations i,s. pegirtning. to. show signs, of .wilting but., for the.. W§% Part the.,coweeklystationre1917unit_3

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