Weekly station . many fieldsof all kinds of grains that cannot now produce a crop even with the most fav-orable conditions, but the greater part of the grain, although the stand isthin and the straw short, still sesms to be healthy and vigorous and has agood color. One factor that has helped the grain is that there has been littleor no firing. Rye is now beginning to turn, and is filling well. All of thesummer fallowing was finished the first of the week, and the M,C, the fallowseries, and the green manure p acked. All of the corn has also been cultivatedonce. Max. temp. 90, minimum
Weekly station . many fieldsof all kinds of grains that cannot now produce a crop even with the most fav-orable conditions, but the greater part of the grain, although the stand isthin and the straw short, still sesms to be healthy and vigorous and has agood color. One factor that has helped the grain is that there has been littleor no firing. Rye is now beginning to turn, and is filling well. All of thesummer fallowing was finished the first of the week, and the M,C, the fallowseries, and the green manure p acked. All of the corn has also been cultivatedonce. Max. temp. 90, minimum 40, precipitation, .33 inches. Garden City: The week was marked by increasingly favorable growing weather. There weresome very hot days, but these were accompanied by considerable humidity andlittle wind movement, and all rowed crops grew rapidly. Small grains are ripen-ing but the yields will be very-low-only a few of the plats will be harvested,none of the small grains are high enough to harvest with a binder. During the. -4- Garden City: (Continued)week practically all of the sorghum, millet, and bean plats were few exceptions these plats are now practically free from weeds. All weedson the moisture reduction plats were killed with a hoe. Soil samples on thecorn plats indicates that there is sufficient moisture available to meet theneeds of the crop for sometime yet. On plat ,Dt the soil is moist to a depthof 6 feet. Injury from grasshoppers is increasing daily,, and 100# of poisonedbran was scattered over the project the latter part of the week. Judging fromreports that the writer has received, grasshoppers are much more numerous thisyear than usual, and farmers say that they are unable to secure Paris Greenwith which to poison them. Weather data for the week:- max. temp. 99, , evap. precip. 90] wind vel. 21 ane. , - 8» ane. miles. Summary of weather for June: evap, 12, 370— above 9 year minimum temperature for Ju
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