342 Twelfth Annual Report. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Aside from the numerous samples of irrigating waters and 

 sugar beets, attention has been devoted to miscellaneous samples 

 of soil, milk, cream, silts, honey and minerals to the number of 

 thirty-seven. 



Requests for analytical work for private parties are received 

 occasionally, which are attended to as time permits. When the 

 results are of public interest and we are permitted to publish 

 them, no charge is made ; otherwise, compensation is received for 

 such work, the proceeds being expended for the benefit of the 

 Station. R. H. Forbes, 



Chemist. 

 W. W. Skinner, 

 Assistant Chemist. 



SUPPLEMENTARY -THE DATE PALM ORCHARD. 



Referring to the date palm orchard on page 315, which, it should 

 have been repeated, is co-operative between the TJ. S. Department of 

 Agriculture and the Arizona Experiment Station : 



As this report goes to press another carload, consisting of 35 

 very large date palms, has been received from Mr. D. G. Fairchild, 

 Agricultural Explorer for the U. S. Department of Agriculture. Owing 

 to the lateness of the season, these trees have been stored in the green- 

 house at Tucson for the winter, and will be transplanted to the orchard 

 next spring. The Egyptian agent from whom these trees were secured, 

 contrary to instructions, shipped them rooted in tubs of earth in the old- 

 fashioned way. The consignment in this shape weighed about 25 tons. 



It is to be remembered that Mr. W. T. Swingle's shipment of last 

 year, from Algiers, tabulated on page 316, also occupying a car, consisted 

 of 440 suckers packed in wet moss and boxed. 



It is due to Mr. Swingle's good judgment and experimental courage, 

 in employing this mode of shipment for the first time, that an economical 

 method of importation has thus been demonstrated. His success will 

 no doubt materially encourage the importation of suckers by private 

 parties and thus hasten the development of the industry. R. H. F. 



