CONTENTS. 



Page 



Department of Administration 



In general 311 



Publications 312 



Educational value of Station work 313 



Personal 314 



Scientific investigation 314 



The date palm orchard 315 



Financial 318 



Department of Agriculture and Horticulture 



Date culture . , 321 



Field crops 322 



Irrigation 323 



Relation of temperatures to crops 324 



Evaporation experiments 325 



Department of Animal Husbandry 



Steer feeding 32f> 



Pasture and alfalfa hay vs. pasture and wheat hay 32(> 



Summary 32t> 



The dairy herd 3"_7 



Record 329 



Feeding sugar beets 331 



Soiling 332 



Dehorning cows 332 



Department of Botany 



Range improvement 33.5 



The Australian saltbush 336 



Parasitic fungi 336 



Economic cacti 337 



Scientific 338 



Department of Chemistry 



Irrigation waters 331) 



Sugar beets 340 



Miscellaneous 342 



Supplementary— The date palm orchard 342 



