574 



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TABivE XLiii. — Continued 



Variety 



1915 



Tepary 



Little's 



Yellow Hopi 



White Hopi 



Casa Grande 



Hanson 



Valentine 



Pink 



Bates' 



Colorado Pinto.... 



Heward Pinto 



Red Hopi 



Lady Washington . . 

 Bavou 



Date 

 harvested 



10-4 

 10-4 

 10-4 

 10-4 

 10-4 

 10-4 

 9-21 

 11-2 

 10^ 

 10-4 

 10-4 

 10-4 

 11-2 

 11-2 



Size of 

 plot 



Acres 



'A 

 Vs 

 Vs 

 Vs 

 Vs 

 Vs 



1/10 



1/10 



'A 



A 



1/10 



Vs 

 1/12 



Yield 

 per plot 



Pounds 



180 

 31 

 53 

 42 

 27 

 64 

 7 

 4 



194 



203 

 17 

 24 

 62 



131 



Yield 

 per acre 



Founds 



720 

 248 

 424 

 336 

 216 

 512 

 70 

 40 

 776 

 812 

 170 

 192 

 744 

 524 



of the United States. The plot of Minnesota Grimm made the best 

 growth, attaining a height of twelve inches during the summer. 

 The remainder of the plots grew about one-half as tall. A growth 

 of six or eight inches was made in both 1914 and 1915, and in 1916 

 all the alfalfa was plowed under. 



BEANS 



Beans are of special importance to Arizona dry-farmers. As 

 legumes they have great value in crop rotations, and, since there 

 are a number of varieties which have been thoroughly acclimatized 

 throughout a long period of time by the native Indians, no surer 

 crop can be grown on Arizona dry-farms. 



Six varieties were planted on the Prescott Dry-farm in 1912. 

 See Table XLIII. Best results were obtained from Bates' and 

 tepary beans. 



In 1913 six other varieties were added, the plot of teparies 

 being destroyed by rabbits, and the Bates' variety maintaining its 

 satisfactory yield of the year before. 



The highest yielding variety of beans in 1914 was Lady Wash- 

 ington, with teparies producing satisfactorily. 



In 1915 the leading varieties were Colorado Pinto, Bates', Lady 

 Washington, and tepary . 



Table XLIV summarizes the average yields of all plots of each 

 variety for the four years of the test, the desirability and consistent 



