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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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evaporation 2.26 inches, precipitation 1.38. Hunt ley t Harvest of spring wheat and flax was completed during the week and. the D.L.A.oats were threshed. The maximum oat yield was 31,6 bu. on rot. 69, and theminimum 16.2 bu. on rot. 42. Average yield for all rotations and culturalmethods 23.3 bu. per acre. The effects of the prolonged drought is beginningto be seen in the corn. Several plats, especially the spring plowed ones arefiring in the center. Ears have set.well but unless we have rain it is verydoubtful if the grain will fill. Maximum for the week 95, minimum 36, pre-cipitation, trace* Judith Basin: Br y weather still continues here., but in spite. of the dryness, it appearsthat the spring wheat on the rotations will make a fair yield. The corn isabout four feet high, and :lces not appear to be suffering from the drought. Thespring wheat, which was planted where the winter wheat had killed out on thecontinuous cropping scries, was cut for hay on the 15th, and the flax was har-
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-4- Judith Basin (continued^ vested on the same date. The latter was too short to cut with a binder, so amower with a buncher attachment was used. Ornamental trees, eespecially the Canadian Poplars, aro beginning to show the effects of the dry weather, andmany of the leaves are turning yellow. Maximum temperature for week 88, min-imum 47, precipitation, none, evaporation 1,695°. Lawt on: The weather has been quite favorable for the growth of he sorghum and cottoncrops during the past week. The temperatures have been quite aggreeable andthe wind velocity has been low. The latter part of the week was sultry andpartly cloudy resulting in .60 of rain on the,,.17tht> .85 on the 18th. . Traceon the 19th and .57 on the 20th. A rather heavy wind accompanied the firstrain and lodged the mile jmcl omq, of the sorghums in the cooperative experi-ments badly. Host of the sorghums in the them has straightened up pretty well,but the mile will probably remain mostly on the ground. The other two r

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