AGRONOMY 



G. E. Thompson, R. S. Hawkins, S. P. Clark 



The annual report of this department covering the work to 

 June 30, 1919 (with subsequent items), reported practically all of 

 the experiments with field crops for the growing season of 1919. 

 Consequently this report, which closes definitely with June 30, 

 1920, covers only six months of time. During this period all 

 the projects reported upon in the Thirtieth Annual Report have 

 been continued. With the close of this crop season, the project 

 dealing with the dynamiting of soils under dry-farming conditions 

 will have been completed. One new project, namely, a study of 

 Indian Agriculture, has been added to the work of the department. 

 During the year a small amount of laboratory equipment has been 

 purchased, the two most valuable items being a dynamometer, 

 used in connection with our teaching work in farm machinery, and 

 a very excellent camera for use in recording photographically the 

 results of experimental work with field crops. 



Considerable improvements have been added to the various 

 experiment farms which materially aid in conducting the agro- 

 nomic work carried on there. Likewise, valuable equipment and 

 machinery as well as livestock have been added to these farms. 

 Particularly in the case of the Salt River Valley Experiment Farm 

 the work is made easier and more exact because of a better condi- 

 tion of the fields as a result of very careful leveling and improve- 

 ment of ditches. 



PROJECTS 



I. CONTINUATION OF STUDIES AT PRESCOTT DRY-FARM 



The work of this farm has been continued without change 

 from the plans of the previous year. On March 1, Mr, Leslie 

 Beaty, a graduate of the Oregon Agricultural College and later a 

 county agent in New Mexico, succeeded Mr. T. F. Wilcox as fore- 

 man of the farm. 



A cold wet spring forced us to plant a few weeks later than 

 is the ordinary custom, but a considerable supply of moisture was 

 stored in the ground ; and, with the exception of beans, which were 

 planted very late, excellent stands were secured. At the date 

 when this report closes (June 30), the field crops are in good con- 

 dition, although there has been practically no rain for the three 



