8 CIRCULAR NO. 120, BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY. 
The testing of trees and shrubs for ornamental purposes is being 
emphasized. The location of the experiments in 1912 is shown in 
figure 2. 
COOPERATIVE WORK. 
The following are the offices of the Bureau of Plant Industry co- 
operating in the work at San Antonio, the approximate area occupied 
by each being noted: 
The Office of Ac- 
climatization and 
Adaptation of Crop 
Plants and Cotton- 
Breeding Investiga- 
tions has about 11 
acres devoted to corn 
and cotton. The 
Office of Foreign 
Seed and Plant In- 
troduction has ap- 
proximately 14 acres 
devoted to the test- 
ing of new plant in- 
troductions. The 
Office of Crop Phys- 
iology and Breeding 
Investigations has 
about 2 acres de- 
voted to testing the 
Texas wild peach 
(Prunus tewana) and 
its hybrids and to 
fig and pistache ex- 
periments. Ap- 
ante] 4 
SAN ANTONIO EXPERIMENT rar LOD. tal | proximately 3 acres 
are used by the 
Fic. 2.—Diagram of the San Antonio Experiment Farm, Office of Corn In- 
showing the arrangement of the fields and the location of vestigations in test- 
the experiments in 1912. alee 
Ing corn varieties. 
About 14 acres are used by the Office of Alkali and Drought Resistant 
Plant Investigations in its work with pomegranates and olives. The 
Office of Cereal Investigations cooperates in the variety testing of 
grain sorghum and broom corn. 
CLIMATIC CONDITIONS. 
The first part of the season of 1912 was very favorable to crop 
erowth, and as a result the yields of early crops, such as corn, oats, 
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