CONTENTS 



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Administration 393 



Agricultural Experiment Station work and facilities 395 



The Tempe Date Orchard 395 



The Yuma Date Orchartl and Horticultural Station 397 



The Prescott Dry-farm 398 



The Sulphur Spring Valley Dry-farm 400 



The Salt River Valley Farm 401 



Emergency work 403 



Personnel 404 



Publications 405 



Projects 406 



Financial 410 



Agronomy 412 



The Salt River Valley Farm 412 



Johnson grass eradication 412 



Small grains 415 



Legumes 415 



New crops 416 



Diseases 417 



Tlie Prescott Dry-farm 418 



Small grains 419 



Sudan grass 419 



Corn 420 



Peas and beans 420 



Sorghums 421 



Potatoes 422 



Sweet Clover 423 



Silos and ensilage 423 



The Sulphur Spring Valley Dry-Farm 424 



Commercial rotation project 424 



The University Farm 425 



Alfalfa 425 



Grains 425 



Ensilage crops 426 



Peanuts 426 



Miscellaneous 426 



Botany 427 



Losses of stock from poison plants 427 



Weather conditions as affecting plant growth 42R 



Work in the plant introduction garden 430 



Plant disease inquiry ' 431 



Publications 432 



Scientific 433 



Horticulture 434 



Lettuce 434 



Sweet potato storage 441 



The date orchards 442 



Cold storage of dates 448 



Evaporation and cold storage 450 



Rooting of palm date suckers 450 



Propagation of Deglet Noor seedlings 451 



Plant Breeding 452 



Alfalfa 452 



Beans 454 



Corn 455 



Dates 455 



Wheat 456 



Animal Husbandry 462 



