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Wallace Macfarlane, Professor of Agronomy, joined the National 

 army in September; and A. L. Enger, Assistant Engineer, went to 

 the Engineering corps, U. S. A., in May. The Extension Service, 

 also, has lost Mr. W. W. Pickrell, County Agent for Pima and, 

 Pinal Counties, and Mr'. T. E. Scheerer, County Agent for Yavapai 

 County. 



Other younger members of the Agricultural Staff are likely to 

 be called upon for service later, should the war continue during the 

 current year. 



Professor John F. Nicholson went to Arkansas in February as 

 marketing specialist for the Extension Service of that State; and. 

 Mr. F. H. Simmons, for over twelve years foreman of the date 

 orchard at Tempe, left us to engage in agricultural work at Santa 

 Ana, California. Mr. Simmons is in large part responsible for the 

 working out in a practical way of the technique of date pollination, 

 ripening and marketing at the orchard of which he has so long and 

 faithfully been in charge. It is with more than usual regret that 

 we record his departure. 



Mr. L. L. Bates, of the Prescott dry-farm, returned in January 

 as foreman of the farm with which he has been identified since the 

 beginning of operations there in 1911. 



PUBLICATIONS 



Publications by the Experiment Station Staff for the year, in- 

 cluding Annual Reports, Bulletins, Timely Hints for Farmers, and 

 scientific and popular papers, are as follows : 



Bulletin 78, October 20, 1916. Relation of Weather to Crops and Varieties 

 Adapted to Arizona Conditions. 



—By Alfred J. McClatchie. J. Eliot Coit, and the Station Staff 



Bulletin 79, December 1, 1916. Cold-Resistance in Spineless Cacti. 



—By J. C. Th. Uphof 



Bulletin 80, December 15. 1916. Certain Effects under Irrigation of Copper 



Compounds upon Crops. —By R. H. Forbes 



Twenty-seventh Annual Report, Decemlier 31, 1916. —By the Station Staff 



Timely Hints for Farmers : 

 No. lis. July 15, 1916. Crown Gall —By J. J. Thornber 



No. 119. September 15. 1916. New Legumes for Green ^lanuring. 



—By R. H. Forbes 



No. 120. July 15, 1916. Tlie Corn Ear Worm. —By A. W. Morrill 



No 121 December 1, 1916. Tamarisks for Southwestern Planting. 



—By J. J. ThornI)er 



No 122 December 15. 1916. Roses for tlic Arizona Home. 



—By J. J. Thornber 



