. Weekly station . Monday. They haveripened rapidly this week and harvest is fully a week earlier than wehad expected, Maximum temperature 93; minimum 6l; precipitation : The month of June was the hottest and driest ever recorded atthis station. A maximum of 108 degrees was reached on the 30th, andthe mean temperature of the month was 10 degrees higher than the meanof the month during the 13 years that this office has records rainfall was only ,52 inch. July has started in with cooler weather and crops are lookingbetter than during the last week of extreme heat in
. Weekly station . Monday. They haveripened rapidly this week and harvest is fully a week earlier than wehad expected, Maximum temperature 93; minimum 6l; precipitation : The month of June was the hottest and driest ever recorded atthis station. A maximum of 108 degrees was reached on the 30th, andthe mean temperature of the month was 10 degrees higher than the meanof the month during the 13 years that this office has records rainfall was only ,52 inch. July has started in with cooler weather and crops are lookingbetter than during the last week of extreme heat in June. Corn in therotations which was planted May 9 was beginning to tassel June 30 at aheight varying from 6 inches to 2 feet. Since the cooler days, however,normal growth seems to have been resumed. Oats and barley will yieldpractically nothing but durum wheat seems to have some chance. Amongthe forage crops the millets and sunflowers are doing best, Maximum temperature for the week 108; minimum 5H; - 5 - Edgeley: Maximum temperature 91J minimum 46; precipitation .8 winds and drying weather prevailed throughout the week. Wheat isjust heading out. Corn is about twelve inches high. Cut worms havedone considerable damage on some of the plots and in the fields. Grass-hoppers are doing material damage to all cereal crops, especially thelate sown grain. Many farmers have visited the Station the past twoweeks making inquiry as to best methods of destroying hoppers. Poisonedbait and hopperdozers have been used to a greater or less degree ofsuccess. Garden City, report for week ending June 28: The dry, hot weather has ripened winter wheat very rapidly. Weharvested the greater part of our wheat on the project on the twenty-seventh and the remaining plats will be ready the first of next commercial field will also be harvested at that time. Spring small grains are suffering from a shortage of moisture aswell as from the ravages of insect pests.
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