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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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eadily worse. With good rains now, only a smallyield will be possible with almost any grain, while many fields are nowpractically dried up. Many of the experimental plats are still in fair con-dition, but the stand is generally quite thin. Nearly all of the Dry Landplats and the most of the earlier grain around here is now headed. Corn hasbeen growing rapidly. That on Nine is much better than on the station, ex-cept where manured, or in a grass rotation. Flax is good, and that in rot-ation 12 is now in blossom. All of the corn was cultivated during the week.Manure was spread on the fallow plats to be manured, and plowing the fallowand green manure plats was begun. The alfalfa and clover plats were cut, andthose on the station hauled. The clover gave a yield of 1300# per acre, andthe alfalfa 1300# and 1850# per acre. The clover, however, was largely;weedsand trash, the stand of clover being very poor. Maximum temperature 88*,minimum 34» (frost in some places) precipitation .24 inches.
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-4- Gaxden City! The drought was effectively broken on the station by a rainfall duringthe week of 1.94. 1.76 of this amount came on the evening of the 3d. Therain was rather general in this portion of the state but the amounts recei-ved varied considerably in Garden City only ,82 was recorded . There isa considerable acreage upon which a sufficiently good stand of sorghums wasnot secured that would now be planted if seed could be had. All sorghumcrops and corn are making a rapid growth, but all dry land small grains ex-cept those on fallows were too far gone to be helped any by the rain. Be-fore the rain, beans were making a better growth than any other crop onthe project. The second crop of alfalfa is light-probably from ■§■ to -f- ofa ton per acre will catch the average. Field work for the week consistedprincipally of lining out all roadways, scrapping all weed growth off witha grader and then grading the roads level with the plats. Soil sampleswere taken on four plats of M.C.

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