. Weekly station . t everything is up to a good dwarf kafir is a little slow in coming and may have to be replant-ed. This will not be very extensive in case replanting is necessaryas there are only a few plats of dwarf kafir and these are in the dateplantings. We got a good rain yesterday evening that amounted to .91inches. This is a great help to the young crops. The rail; was delayedlong enough that there will be no danger of crops failing to come througha crusted soil. Our wheat is not quite ready to harvest yet. I believe that itwill average 20 bushels. We will have a
. Weekly station . t everything is up to a good dwarf kafir is a little slow in coming and may have to be replant-ed. This will not be very extensive in case replanting is necessaryas there are only a few plats of dwarf kafir and these are in the dateplantings. We got a good rain yesterday evening that amounted to .91inches. This is a great help to the young crops. The rail; was delayedlong enough that there will be no danger of crops failing to come througha crusted soil. Our wheat is not quite ready to harvest yet. I believe that itwill average 20 bushels. We will have a heavy crop of oats on the generalplanting made for feed. These will make around 30 bushels and possiblymore. It all depends now whether or not we get a hail before we canharvest. The oats will be ready to harvest in days, I believewe will have around 300 or U00 bushels of feed oats which will come injust right as we ground our last grain yesterday. We had several visitors at the station this week. They like the way. Dalhart, report for week ending June 28, contd: things are looking. They spoke of the improvement in looks of thingssince the painting. I have not had time to make any visits among thefarmers since I got the ford on account of planting, etc. I expect tobe able to get out a little in the near future. They are wanting meto come and see them. When I get out among them I expect to have moreof them visiting the station to see what we are doing. The ones thathave come to see us have been well pleased with their visit. Maximum temperature 92; minimum 59; evaporation *+3 inches;average hourly wind velocity miles; precipitation .91 inches. Dalhart: The week has been favoragle to crop growth and everything hasmade good headway. We have had considerable wind the latter part ofthe week and it was necessary to do some cultivating to prevent blowingin the south field. We started the cultivators Thursday and cultivatedall day. This left things in good shape so tha
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