The work of the San Antonio Experiment Farm in 1918 . to con-ditions peculiar to theSan Antonio district. Cooperation of theOffice of Corn Investi-gations was had in test-ing corn varieties andmethods of culture, withthe Office of Cereal In-vestigations in flax ex-periments, and with theOffice of Forage-CropInvestigations in testingsorghum offices cooperatingin the work of the farmare Foreign Seed andPlant Introduction,Crop Physiology andBreeding Investigations,and the BiophysicalLaboratory. The horticultural ex-periments, which have todo with the testing of fruit varieties, th
The work of the San Antonio Experiment Farm in 1918 . to con-ditions peculiar to theSan Antonio district. Cooperation of theOffice of Corn Investi-gations was had in test-ing corn varieties andmethods of culture, withthe Office of Cereal In-vestigations in flax ex-periments, and with theOffice of Forage-CropInvestigations in testingsorghum offices cooperatingin the work of the farmare Foreign Seed andPlant Introduction,Crop Physiology andBreeding Investigations,and the BiophysicalLaboratory. The horticultural ex-periments, which have todo with the testing of fruit varieties, the testing of introduced fruitslikely to be adapted to local conditions, and the testing of resistantstocks suitable for the soils and conditions of the district, are an im-portant feature of the work. A large number of ornamental trees andshrubs, both native and introduced, are being grown about the farmbuildings, in order to test their adaptability for the ornamentation ofhome grounds under the prevailing soil and climatic conditions. 141888—20 2. Fig. 2.—Diagram of the San Antonio Experiment Farm,showing the arrangement of the fields and the loca-tion of the experiments in 1918. 10 Department Circular 73, V. S. Dept. of Agriculture. Experiments in the utilization of winter oats and Sudan grassfor pasturing cattle are being made. Attention is also given to thetesting of neAv grasses and forage crops and other plants which havepossibilities of being adapted to local conditions. The arrangement of the fields and the location of the experimentsin 1918 are shown in figure 2. ROTATION AND TILLAGE EXPERIMENTS/ The rotation and tillage experiments at the San Antonio experi-ment farm occupy 95 quarter-acre and 4 fifth-acre plats. The fifth-acre plats are used in an experiment in bordering to prevent run-offof the rainfall. Two of these bordered plats are used in a test ofbiennial cropping and fallowing with sorghum for forage. On theother two a rotation of corn and cotton is pract
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