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farms have been secuivd and aic devoted almost entirely to the study 

 of crops and their water requirements. One tract is carefully flumed, 

 and it is possible to accurately measure all walci- api)lied and that 

 which runs oft', thus determining the actual amount taken by the soil 

 and the plants. An attempt is being made to determine the max- 

 imum and minimum quantities of water required for the production 

 of dift'erent crops; eff'ect of the application of the water at ditl'erent 

 stages of crop growth; relation of soils and subsoils to quantity of 

 water required to uiakt> a cro{); movement of water in soils, in which 

 the results of about 40,000 determinations of soil moisture are abotit 

 ready for publication; and the relative efficiency of irrigating by the 

 flooding jnethod antl by furrows. Other investigations are being 

 carried on in pot experiments to determine a number of factors in 

 soil moisture movements. Much of this work, together with some 

 work in draining irrigated land, is being done in cooperation with 

 this Office. Other cooperative investigations are being carried on 

 with the Bureau of Plant Industry of this Department on cereals and 

 sugar beets, with the Bureau of Chemistry on the chemistry of sugar 

 beets, and with the Bureau of Soils on the reclamation of alkali soils 

 and crops for the reclaimed lands. The dry land farming exi)eri- 

 ments have been continued and extended, and give promise of good 

 results. It is believed that this method of farming will reclaim in the 

 Western States an area many times greater than can ever be brought 

 under the system of irrigation. 



The horticultural work includes variety tests with onions and irri- 

 gation for vegetables at the substations in southern Utah, and orchard 

 management and irrigation at Brigham City. The work in animal 

 husbandry, {)oultry husbandry, and entomology has been continued as 

 in former years. P. A. Yoder, associate chemist, has been elected 

 director of the station', vice J. A. Widtsoe; William Jardine, agron- 

 omist, vice L. A. Merrill; W. W. McLaughlin, irrigation engineer; 

 and II. J. Frederick, veterinarian. The legislature at its last session 

 appropriated $39,000 for experimental work under the station, appor- 

 tioned as follows: For experiments in arid farming, $15,000; irriga- 

 tion and drainage investigations, in cooperation with this Office, 

 $10,000; for a central experimental farm to be devoted to fruit grow- 

 ing, $8,000; and for the maintenance of the branih station in the 

 southern ])art()f the State, $(),000. The increased appropriations for 

 the Utah Station and the action of the legislature in turning over to 

 it the control of the State station in the southern part of the State 

 and in providing for a central fruit experiment station, show a grow- 

 ing appreciation of scientific agricultural investigation on the part 

 of the pui)lic. Through its various coo])erative enterprises, demon- 

 stration farms for dry land fai'ining, and fiii-incrs' institutes, the 

 station is reaching the farming connuunities better than before. 



