Weekly station . rowth. Hail storms oc-curred on the 3rd and 4th. 0\ily slight damage was done by the first stormbut the second one was much ijare severe, .60 of an inch of rain and hailfalling in less than 15 minuses* Alfalfa on the station was almost com-pletely destroyed and all alfalfa plats wore clipped with a mower. Fieldpeas also suffered quite seriously, The past three weeks have been onesof exceedingly heavy precipitation, 5,73 inches of rain having fallen dur-ing this period. The total ran fail for the month of May amounted to which is greater than that recorded
Weekly station . rowth. Hail storms oc-curred on the 3rd and 4th. 0\ily slight damage was done by the first stormbut the second one was much ijare severe, .60 of an inch of rain and hailfalling in less than 15 minuses* Alfalfa on the station was almost com-pletely destroyed and all alfalfa plats wore clipped with a mower. Fieldpeas also suffered quite seriously, The past three weeks have been onesof exceedingly heavy precipitation, 5,73 inches of rain having fallen dur-ing this period. The total ran fail for the month of May amounted to which is greater than that recorded for any month since precipita-tion records have been kept. Soil samples takan Hay 19 on plats A; C, andD of the M. C. wheat series and those -oaken June 7 show the moisture con-tent of the soil to have increased down to the 6th foot but no change hav-ing taken place in the 6th foot except on the summer fallowed plat. Thefollowing table shows the increase in per cent of moisture at the differentdepths for these three Plat A. Plat C,$ 3,6$6,5$$
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