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CIRCULAE NO. 120, BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY. 



The testing of trees and shrubs for ornamental purposes is being 

 emphasized. The location of the experiments in 1912 is shown in 



figure 2. 



COOPERATIVE WORK, 



The following are the offices of the Bureau of Plant Industry co- 

 operating in the work at San Antonio, the approximate area occupied 



by each being noted : 

 The Office of Ac- 

 climatization and 

 Adaptation of Crop 

 Plants and Cotton- 

 Breeding Investiga- 

 tions has about 11 

 acres devoted to corn 

 and cotton. The 

 Office of Foreign 

 Seed and Plant In- 

 troduction has ap- 

 proximately 1^ acres 

 devoted to the test- 

 ing of new plant in- 

 troductions. The 

 Office of Crop Phys- 

 iology and Breeding 

 Investigations has 

 about 2 acres de- 

 voted to testing the 

 Texas Avild peach 

 [Prunus texana) and 

 its hybrids and to 

 fig and pistache ex- 

 p e r i m e n t s. Ap- 

 proximately 3 acres 

 are used by the 

 Office of Corn In- 

 vestigations in test- 

 ing corn varieties. 

 About li acres are used by the Office of Alkali and Drought Kesistant 

 Plant Investigations in its work with pomegranates and olives. The 

 Office of Cereal Investigations cooperates in the variety testing of 

 grain sorghum and broom corn. 



CLIMATIC CONDITIONS. 

 The first part of the season of 1912 was very favorable to crop 

 arowth. and as a result the yields of early crops, such as corn, oats. 



[Cir. 120] 



Pig. 2. Diagram of the San Antonio Experiment Farm, 



showing the arrangement of the fields and the location of 

 the experiments in l'.n2. 



