264 TwKNTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT 



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from a rainfall standpoint. Between five and six inches of rain fell 

 during January, February, and March, and five inches fell during the 

 growing season of July, August, and September. The rains were quite 

 uniformly distributed over the growing months, this having much to 

 do with the success of the crops on the Prescott Dry Farm this year. 



CROPS 



Corn: The following varieties of corn were planted from May 22 

 to June 12: Papago Sweet, Hickory King, Bloody Butcher, Reid's 

 Yellow Dent, Silver's White Flint and Blue Squaw. All of the corn 

 was cut for silage except a small patch of Hickory King and Bloody 

 Butcher which was left for seed. Hickory King yielded the largest 

 quantity of green silage per acre, while the White Flint and Blue 

 Squaw were practically failures. Hickory King made 13,320 pounds of 

 green silage per acre ; Papago Sweet, 8,364 ; Bloody Butcher, 6,720 ; 

 Reid's Yellow Dent, 4,500. The small Indian corns have appeared to 

 better advantage during a less favorable season of rainfall and should 

 be included in order to provide against complete loss of all corns when 

 such seasons appear. 



Beans: Tepary beans and Colorado Pinto beans were the two 

 varieties tested this year. These were planted May 10, but later were 

 nearly destroyed by rabbits. The teparies were completely destroyed 

 and the' Colorado Pintos yielded only 75 pounds of beans per acre. 



field peas: Six acres of Canada field peas were sown June 15, 

 which was too late to take advantage of any winter moisture that was 

 present earlier in the season. The majority of the peas did not germi- 

 nate until July when the summer rains appeared. The season from 

 this time on until frost was too short for maturing the peas, and the 

 excellent growth of vines which they made during that time was turned 

 under as a green manuring crop with no attempt made to harvest 

 them. 



Grain sorgliiiins : The grain sorghums tested this year were 

 Early Dwarf White milo. Standard Black Hulled White kafir, and 

 shallu. These were planted June 1 on plats ranging from one-eighth to 

 three-fourths acre in size. The entire crop of all the grain sorghums 

 was harvested for silage except a small portion of the milo which was 

 left for seed. An estimate of the yield of milo seed was 1260 pounds of 

 grain in the head per acre. The yield of green forage was as follows : 



Shallu 8062 pounds green silage per acre 



Standard Black Hulled White kafir 5182 " " " " " 



Early Dwarf White milo 4000 " " " " " 



