CONTENTS 



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Administration -'' 



Agricultural Experiment Station farms 278 



Tempe Cooperative Date Orchard 278 



Salt River Valley Farm 278 



Yuma Date Orchard and Horticultural Station 279 



Sulphur Spring Valley Dry- farm 279 



Personnel 280 



Publications 281 



Proj ccts 282 



Financial 285 



x\^ronomy 287 



Salt River Valley Farm 287 



Legumes 288 



Field peas 289 



Velvet beans 290 



Table beans 290 



Alfalfa 290 



Corn 290 



Sorghums 291 



Wheat " 291 



Oats 292 



Barlev 292 



Cotton 293 



Miscellaneous crops 293 



Prescott Drj^-farm 293 



Sulphur Spring Valley Drv-farni 294 



Yuma Date Orchard and Horticultural Station 295 



University Farm , 296 



Acknowledgment 296 



Botany 297 



Weather conditions and the grazing range 297 



Poison plant investigations 298 



Publications 299 



Notes on plant introduction 300 



Plant disease studies 301 



Scientific 302 



Horticulture 303 



Pomologv 303 



Dates 304 



A study in the culture and management of date orchards 308 



A study of cultural methods with citrus fruits 308 



Date propagation 309 



Olericulture . .T 309 



Irish potato studies 310 



Spinach as a market crop for southern Arizona 311 



Ornamental gardening 312 



Special investigations 312 



Miscellaneous 313 



Plant Breeding 314 



Wheat 314 



Beans 317 



Alfalfa 318 



Grain sorghums 320 



Animal Husbandry 322 



Feeding vucca to starving range cows 324 



Hogs . . ; ■; ; ;325 



Fattening hogs on garbage alone 325 



Two methods of raising registered Duroc-Jersey gilts 325 



Garbage vs. grain for growing and fattening hogs 326 



Feeding work horses on corn silage .... 328 



