TABLE OF CONTENTS 



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Administration "I-^ 



The purpose of the College of Agriculture ^j^ 



The original idea "^25 



The new idea •*26 



The research idea ^26 



The extension idea 427 



The Experiment Station Farms ^'^ 



Changes in personnel |^ 



Resignations ^^ 



Appointments ^-^ 



Looking ahead ^^^ 



The Agricultural Experiment Station .430 



The Extension Service 430 



Publications ^^ 



Technical articles 431 



Projects ^-^ 



Finances "+^3 



Agricultural Chemistry 436 



Adams fund work 436 



The Tempe Drainage Ditch 437 



Silt carried by the Gila River 437 



Irrigation waters in Salt River Valley 437 



Rules for the blending of pumped water with canal water under the 



Salt River Valley project ....-_ 438 



Character of the groundwaters immediately east of the Agua Fria River. .438 



Agronomy 440 



Projects 440 



Continuation of studies at Prescott Dry-Farm 440 



Continuation of studies at Sulphur Spring Valley Dry-Farm 442 



Legumes and their culture for southwest conditions 442 



A study of the varieties and methods of cultivation of Indian 



and the various sorghums 443 



The cultivation and field management of Egyptian cotton 443 



Cultivation and management of winter and spring grains, including 



wheat, oats, and barley 444 



Effect of dynamiting subsoil on field crops 445 



Varietal and cultural tests of grain and cultural tests of grain and 



forage crops and of grasses and miscellaneous crops 445 



Cooperative crop experiments 446 



A study of Indian agriculture 446 



Seed certification work 446 



Cotton improvement 447 



Extension work 448 



Miscellaneous work 448 



Animal Husbandry 449 



Work of the year 449 



Investigation 450 



Fattening range steers for market 450 



Fleshing thin cows 451 



Use of garbage for hogs 451 



Two methods of maintaining sows 452 



Alfalfa versus mixed rations for raising beef heifers 453 



Botany 455 



Losses of stock from poison plants 455 



Study of Arizona grasses 456 



Work at Flagstaff 456 



Losses of stock from an unknown cause 457 



Feeding experiment with rayless goldenrod 458 



Notes on plant introduction work 459 



