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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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hich is very warm for this section. Precip-itation .01, evaporation 3.302, Work forrthe week has consisted of thinning crops to count and of cultivating.Most of the rotation and C,C. rowed crops have been thinned and quite a numberof variety plat 3 have been thinned. On 3ome of the plats the stand was alreadytoo thin to.^fe-y. There were left as they were. All of the row crops in theplat field were cultivated and several fallows also. Two plats on which mil-let had been planted but which were grown up badly to weeds were mowed so asto give the millet a chance. Several acres in the crop field have been cul-tivated. Some of the crops, especially corn, are rolling somewhat during theday, Host of the crops although small, are doing well. Being small will bean advantage if the drouth continues as they have not begun to draw heavilyon the moisture. Messrs. Chilcott, Fletcher, and Sielin&er, of the Woodward Field Station,and Mr. Osborn of the Lawton station visited this station the 13th.
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-6- Williston: Maximum temperature for the week 96, minimum 44, precipitation, .0$. Y/heatson the plats are beginning to turn today, with practically no filling due todry weather. Corn is short, but holding up well. All crops suffering in thelocality, and a good rain is needed quickly to insure a partial crop. Haywill be short this year, and there1 is much concern over the feed situation.It is probably that considerable stock will have to be sold off in this section.Soil samplings to fifteen feet were taken for a second time, and because thesoil is so baked and dry it was a difficult operation. Green manure plats wereplowed under this week, rye fairly high, but thin, and peas and sweet cloverwhile of good stand, were short. loodWard: The week has ended with hot winds and still no sign of rain. We have hadseveral days of hot winds but on the 13th I believe we had the hottest windswitnessed in this section for several years. The corn on the rotations wasturned white and I doubt whether

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