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grasses and clovers on the University lawns, the natives are mak- 

 ing an excellent showing, being decisively conquered by Ber- 

 muda only, — but more of this, perhaps, another year. 



Where water is scarce or costly, or where a home is aban- 

 doned during the hot summer season, a selection of drouth-resist - 

 ers may be made which will beautify barren surroundings with 

 minimum cost and care. The pepper tree, the Arizona ash, and 

 the Bagote ; the native Larrea or creosote bush, agaves and yuc- 

 cas ; native grapes and honeysuckles ; native grasses, arid possi- 

 bly, also, Lippia repens for lawns, is a selection which will go far 

 in the reclamation of barren surroundings. 



But beware of the traveling agent who wishes to sell you an 

 ornamental foreign tree that "will grow without water." The 

 chances are against the purchaser, and such selections can be 

 made far more safely from native trees. 



A few more seeds of the Bagote may be obtained of the Ex- 

 periment Station, and Dr. F. Franceschi of Santa Barbara, Cal., 

 has Lippia repens and other plants and vines suitable for South- 

 ern Arizona. 



R. H. Forbes, 



Director. 



THE USE OF HAND SEPARATORS ON THE FARM. 

 No. 29, March 15. 



Climatic conditions over the greater part of Arizona practi- 

 cally necessitate the use of the cream separator where home dairy- 

 ing is practiced ; the best of care is required to get milk to the 

 creamery in good condition, while the conditions necessary to a 

 satisfactory separation of the cream from the milk by setting are 

 practically unattainable. 



The writer has found that in certain localities in another 

 state where well water at a temperature of 50 degrees is available 

 for the deep setting of milk, the average loss of butter fat in the 

 skim milk is about one per cent, or from one-fifth to one-third of 

 the total fat. This loss of one pound of butter fat in every hundred 

 pounds of skim milk in a herd of five cows, each giving 4000 

 pounds of milk, would in a year amount to fifty dollars. 



