. Weekly station cases* Spring wheat and oats were planted early in Karch and came up with agood stand. The mininium temperature was 13 on the 4th and 17 on the 5th ofthis month, and the oats were frozen back to the surface, but at present seemto be coming out again and doing well. On Kbrch £fth we had a wind which averaged L7»5 miles per hour on theL foot anemometer from 8 to. 5 and reached a velocity of about 60 miles per hour at the Weather Bureau in town. This blew a brick wall over whichhad been left standing after a fire, and wrecked a furniture store next door,injuring o
. Weekly station cases* Spring wheat and oats were planted early in Karch and came up with agood stand. The mininium temperature was 13 on the 4th and 17 on the 5th ofthis month, and the oats were frozen back to the surface, but at present seemto be coming out again and doing well. On Kbrch £fth we had a wind which averaged L7»5 miles per hour on theL foot anemometer from 8 to. 5 and reached a velocity of about 60 miles per hour at the Weather Bureau in town. This blew a brick wall over whichhad been left standing after a fire, and wrecked a furniture store next door,injuring one person quite seriously. Most of the spring plowing for row crops on the Station has been com-pleted. We have had very little trouble with soil blowing this spring, excepton one piece which has been fallow since last Jany. 1, to date I^aximum temperature for the week 77; nunimum 13; average hourly windvelocity miles per hour; evaporation (hl tank) l»7SL (6* tank) l«3«-0;precipitation . Ardmore: The season is unusually late and field work has been greatly retard-ed because of frequent sterms. The first work on the station was done in thefields,ahte larch 15th, hut very little has been accomplished up to the pres-ent time.} Some seeding of small grain was done today (April 10). The averagedate of\ seeding small grain during the past seasons has been April 5th, mring the past three weeks the teams of the Station have been keptbusy hauijUig manure. About two hundred loads have been distributed on thefields. Winter -/heat is starting to grow and has come through the winter inexcellent condition. The cattle losses in this section luring the winter were very winter has been long ana unusually severe. There has also been a greatshortage of feed, Scabies among the cattle ds causing some losses and it islikely that the entire county will have to he quarantined before the diseaseis eradicated* A gcod many range herds also have Hemmorhagic
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