Weekly station . pitation ,17 inches. Woodward: The past week has been rather warm and w;l&dy with very little precipi-tation. T7e have been able to get into the fields since Monday noon and havemade quite a start toward killing the weeds which came on during the rainyspel] of last week and week before. Field work has consisted mostly ofcultivation of row crops, and cultivation of the orchards and roads with thetractor, The loose ends of the grape vines have been tied up and soil sampleshave been taken on the CC milo. Crops have made an excellent growth and some of the sorghums in th
Weekly station . pitation ,17 inches. Woodward: The past week has been rather warm and w;l&dy with very little precipi-tation. T7e have been able to get into the fields since Monday noon and havemade quite a start toward killing the weeds which came on during the rainyspel] of last week and week before. Field work has consisted mostly ofcultivation of row crops, and cultivation of the orchards and roads with thetractor, The loose ends of the grape vines have been tied up and soil sampleshave been taken on the CC milo. Crops have made an excellent growth and some of the sorghums in theearlier date plantings are heading, and the corn is beginning to tassel. Mr, Osborn, Superintendent of the Lawton field station was a visitorat this station on the 12.; he left the next morning with Mr, Chilcott andMr, Seiglinger for a ten day auto trip, visiting some of the other temperature 96, minimum 66; average hourly wind velocity 9,© milesper hour; evaporation ]; precipitation . inches,. WEEKLY STATION REPORTS OF THE OFFICE OF DRY LAND AGRICULTURE INVESTIGATION BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRYU. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. JUL 24 1920 Akron: REPORT FOR WEEK ENDING JULY 2k, l$20* Wheat harvest is in active progress throughout the countyi Many combi-nation threshers are in operation! General practice is to head, however, andwait for a threshed * Some harvesting was done on the Cereal Project and the barley on the twosheep rotations was cut, but heavy harvest on the station will not occur untilnext week. Grain has not ripened as fast following the last rain as it wasthought it would, Major portion of the station work has centwed around weedfighting. The rotation fallow plats were disced; the fallow strips were disc-ed; the cane and the variety sorghos plowed; the two orchards disced; themillet variety plats trimme&j the sorgho varieties hoed; and the rotationalleys hoed* Alfalfa has made a fair growth since the last cutting and is ready tobe cut again as
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