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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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nwas started. It has been a week of really high temperatures and really hotwinds. All. of the spring small grains are dried up except those on summer fal-low.. Where there was a good stand of winter wheat it is Suffering badly. Whilecorn wilted some it has made quite a rapid growth* Yesterday, with a hot windaveraging 21.6 miles for the 24 hours and a maximum temperature of 104, eventhe sorghums began to wilt. The surface planted milo and kafir were cultivatedthis week and soil samples were taken on the M..,C.Milo and M.C, Winter wheat p^ats. The winter wheat plats have no moisture at .all. Weather for the week!Maximum temperature 104, minimum, 56, average hourly wind velocity (8!) ft.13.3, (2») 8*7, evaporation 2.?2R, precipitation .14. Weather for June: max. 104-29th, min. 32-2d, average max. 85,-1916 90-1915,81-1914 91, evaporation 8.281-1916 7,153, 1915 5.843, 1914 8.975, precip-itation 1.42-average 3,16»-1916 3.15, precipitation Jan. 1 to July 1, 5,97,average.9.37., 1916, 7*44.
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—3- Colby: (Report for week ending July 14) This has been another favorable week for crops* Over an inch and a half ofrain fell the fore part of the week and good growing weather has prevailed since.Corn is from two to two and a half feet high, and most of the sorghums are fromeight to twelve inches in height. Barley and wheat harvest started in someparts of the county during the week. The yields of both will he comparativelypoor. Few fields of wheat will average more than four to five bushels. Atthe station the winter wheat is just filling and will not be ready to cut fortwo weeks yet, while barley is almost ripe. All the listed milo and feterita •were cultivated for the first time this week while the surface planted s^r^hnmsand the listed corn were gone over the second time. Much of the w§ek was.spentin hoeing weeds in the plats and roadways as weeds are very bad this year. Allthe fallow plats were double disked. Weather for the week: max. 98, min, 52,precipitation 1„58M. Dal

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