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season. Abortion of fruiting branches, buds, and bolls early in the 

 season was much less common than in the Imperial and Salt River 

 Valleys, and there was less injury from drought or other extreme 

 conditions that often reduce the yields or impair the quality of the 

 fiber in the southern valleys. In view of such differences of behavior 

 there seems to be no ground for the fear that the growing season in 

 the San Joaquin Valley may prove too short for Egyptian cotton. 



WHEAT. 



Early Baart, a hard white wheat, fields of which were surveyed in 

 Arizona and California in 1918, was again grown on an increased 

 scale in those States in 1919. Most of the expansion was based on 

 seed from inspected fields. The results of this enlarged acreage are 

 reported to be excellent. 



The production of Dicklow, a white wheat of good quality, is being 

 encouraged on the irrigated farms of the Snake River Basin in Idaho. 

 A considerable extension of acreage took place in the spring of 1919, 

 the total being about 8,000 acres, and excellent results are reported 

 where sufficient irrigation water was available. 



A selection of Dawson Golden Chaff wheat, resulting from coopera- 

 tive experiments at 'he Cornell Agricultural Experiment Station, is 

 now being distributed rather rapidly in New York State. The com- 

 mercial fields of this variety are inspected each year in order that 

 only pure seed of high quality may be used for the increasing acreage. 



Kanred, a hard red winter variety, originated at the Kansas Agri- 

 tural Experiment Station, was inspected in commercial fields in 

 Kansas in 1918, and some 400 fields of this variety were inspected by 

 State officials in 1919. It is likely to become increasingly popular 

 because of its resistance to leaf rust and stem rust, as well as be- 

 cause of its productiveness and high quality. 



OATS. 



The Albion and Richland, two superior early oat varieties, devel- 

 oped in cooperation with the Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station, 

 are grown on an increasing acreage in Iowa and the adjacent States 

 in the oat belt. The Albion (Iowa No. 103) is a selection from 

 Sixty-Day. It is estimated that fully a million acres of it were 

 grown in Iowa this year. The Richland (Iowa No. 105) is adapted 

 to the more fertile alluvial soils, on which it yields about 4 bushels 

 per acre more than the Kherson oat, from which it was developed. 

 It is estimated that at least 50,000 acres were grown in Iowa in 1919. 



Improved selections produced in cooperation with the Cornell 

 Agricultural Experiment Station have been distributed commer- 

 cially in cooperation with selected farmers, and their use is increas- 

 ing in those sections of the State to which they are especia-lly 

 adapted. 



BARLEY. 



Owing to the decreasing demand for barley incident to the ter- 

 mination of the war and the advance of the prohibition movement, 

 and owing further to the guaranteed price of wheat, it was feared 

 that there might be a tendency to decrease the barley acreage in the 



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