WOEK OF THE UMATILLA EXPERIMENT FARM IN 1912. 



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CROP CONDITIONS. 



The crop conditions on the Umatilla Project were only faii-ly satis- 

 factory in 1912. Late spring frosts did some damage to the tender 

 small fruits, particularly strawberries. A destructive windstorm on 

 June 20 damaged all crops to some extent and seriously injured some 

 of the truck crops. 



In 1912 the total irrigable area of the farms on the project was 

 9,091 acres, included in 295 farm units. Of this an area of 4,600 

 acres was 'actually hrigated. Young orchards not yet in bearing 

 occupied 1,175 acres, and green-manure crops and other miscellaneous 

 crops which were not harvested occupied 207 acres, so that the total 

 area of crops harvested was 3,218 acres. The acreage, yields, and 

 farm values of the crops grown on the project in 1912 are stated in 

 Table III. The figures were obtamed from the United States 

 Reclamation Service. 



Table 111.— Acreage, yields, and farm values of crops grown on the Umatilla Project 



in 1912. 



FIELD EXPERIMENTS. 



The field expermients in progress at the experiment farm in 1912 

 had to do chiefly with the following: (1) The testing of fruit varie- 

 ties and methods of then- production; (2) the indentification and 

 testing of varieties of garden and truck crops; (3) experiments with 

 methods of increasing the supply of organic matter in the soil, includ- 

 ing tests of several green-manure crops; (4) variety tests of numer- 

 ous hardy slu-ubs and trees suitable for ornamental purposes and as 

 windbreaks; and (5) tests of dift'erent irrigation methods. The 

 arrangement of the fields and the location of the experiments m 1912 

 are shown in figure 2. A brief description of these experiments 



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