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The work will be extended to sucK eoimties as fast as it is possible to 

 do so. It is planned to effect cooperative agreements as far as pos- 

 sible with the agricultural colleges of the various States for the joint 

 conduct of the work. 



DRY-LAND AGRICULTURE. 



The investigations of dry-land agriculture, under the direction of 

 Mr. E. C. Chilcott, have been continued in the Great Plains region. 

 The regular work in crop rotations and cultivation methods has been 

 conducted at IG stations located in eight States. Eight of these sta- 

 tions are in coo]ieration with State experiment stations and are located 

 at their substations at Moccasin, Mont.; Williston, Dickinson, Het- 

 tinger, and Edgeley, N. Dak.; North Platte, Nebr.; and Hays and 

 Garden City, Kans. Three are in cooperation with the Office of 

 "VA estern Irrigation Agriculture and are located at Huntley, Mont., 

 Bellefourche, S. Dak., and Mitchell, Nebr. One is at Amarillo,Tex., 

 in cooperation with the Office of Cereal Investigations. Four are 

 operated independently by the Office of Dry-Land- Agriculture and 

 are located at Ardmore. S. Dak., Akron, Colo., Dalhart, Tex., and 

 Tucumcari, N. Mex. The personnel of the scientific staff in charge 

 of the work at the field stations remains as it was last year. 



The results of the investigations have been valuable. The drought 

 has been sufficiently severe at most of the stations to afl'ord an oppor- 

 tunity to test the various methods of cultivation and crop rotations. 

 Hail* completely destroyed or greatly damaged the crops at three 

 stations, but the notes taken up to the time of loss will be of value. 



WESTERN IRRIGATION AGRICULTURE. 



The investigations of western irrigation agriculture, under the 

 direction of Mr. Carl S. Scofield, relating to the utilization of lands 

 belonging to projects of the Reclamation Service and other areas in 

 the arid"iind semiarid West, have been continued. Field studies of 

 problems pertaining to some of the newer agricultural areas of the 

 West are included, and experiment field stations are operated on 

 certain of these areas. At these stations facilities are provided for 

 cooperative field and laboratory work in the solution of various 

 plant-industry problems by the specialists of the bureau or by inves- 

 tigators employed by State experiment stations. The investigational 

 work has to do with crop acclimatization, plant breeding, variety 

 testing, methods of tillage, crop rotation, ])lant diseases, and the 

 testing of plants newly introduced from foreign countries. The 

 results of these investigations are made available to the farmers of 

 the regions through publications and by local demonstrations. The 

 irrigation experiments at Huntley, Mont., Bellefourche, S. Dak., and 

 Scottsbluff, Nebr., are closely related to each other. 



FIELD STATIONS. 



The San Antonio field station is located 5 miles south of San 

 Antonio, Tex., on 125 acres of land belonging to the ci(y and leased 

 to the department without cost for a period of 10 years, ending 

 June 30, 1914. The lines of work include (1) testing new plant in- 

 troductions and such indigenous fruit and nut plants as are thought 



