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CIRCULAR NO. 120, BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY. 

 CROP EXPERIMENTS. 



The experiments conducted at the Yuma Experunent Farm in 

 1912 inchided chiefly alfalfa, cotton, corn, dates, figs, and truck 

 crops. The arrangement of the fields and the location of the crop 

 expermients in 1912 are shown in figure 2. Cultural experiments 

 were conducted with these and with some miscellaneous crops, and 



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Tig. 2. — Diagram of the Yuma Experiment Farm, showing the arrangement of the fields and the location 



of the experiments in 1912. 



some variety testmg and breedmg^ work was done with corn, cotton, 

 dates, and figs. Most of the experimental work was a continuation 

 of work started in ])revious years, ami the following brief discussions 

 of the dift'erent cro})s are based on the results obtained at the ex- 

 periment farm, not only in 1912 but to some extent in ])revious 

 years as well. 



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