The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1893-06-24
THE EXPERIMENT STATION.
what Prof. Z. FL. Mcdowell Is Doing
For the Farmers of this State.


Reno Gazette.]
On an invitation extended by Prof.
R. III. Mcdowell, Professor of Agrl-
culture and Horticulture of the State
University, Gazette reporter visited
the farm of that institution the other
day. From the general character of
the work being done it is calculated to
be of immense value to the
FARMERS OF THIS STATE
If they profit by the knowledge i'm
parted to them through the bulletins
issued by that department. AS you
drive through the gate the first piece
of land that attracts your attention is
one devoted to the experiment of
raising oats and wheat without irriga-
ton. This land is rather of poor
quality, being of a coarse, gravelly
formation. The wheat and oats sown
there look little stunted, but no
more so than one would expect from
the character of the soil. The Gazette
man doubts if ever the grain heads
out and ripens, and we give it as our
opinion that crops cannot be success
fully grown in this State
WITHOUT WATER,
Especially on poor land. Prof, Nc
Dowell is of the opinion, however,
that with from five to six irrigations
that the nature of the land devoted to
the oat and wheat crop can be made to
yield beautifully. The next piece that
we come to is 1920 of an acre devo-
ted to beardless oats, but owing to the
cold, backward spring are hardly out
of the ground yet, but the Professor
has great faith in the cultivation of
that cereal, and says it makes the
finest kind of rolled oats for table use,
and thinks it sure crop. If the far
mers and capital could join forces and
PUT UP A PLANT
For the manufacture of the meal,
Professor Mcdowell thinks it would
prove paying institution all round
and that the manufactured article
would find ready sale wherever roll
ed oats are used as an article of diet
The Professor is experimenting with
a series of tracts sown to wheat to
demonstrate how little water can be
used and the land yield profitable
crop; he is varying the
NUMBER OF IRRIGATIoNs
From to z during the summer and
is trying the experiment with 80 vari-
cites of wheat, and this fall he will be
able to issue an interesting bulletin
on the results. The tobacco fields
look healthy and thrifty, and from the
experiments made last year it's GUILTY.
alton should be made profitable. He
is trying Is varieties of Canada grain
to settle what kind is best adapted to
OUR SOIL AND CLIMATE,
And conducting interesting expert
ments The Professor is devoting
much time and careful study to the
cultivation of the sugar beet, veget-
able that he feels confident can be
grown to better advantage in this State
than in any other in the Union. The
climate here is especially adapted to
it's successful cultivation. Much care
is given the sugar beet and from the
results of last years experiments,
followed up by this years, he will be
able to tell the character of soil best
calculated for it. Just
HOW MUCH WATER
It requires and other data that will be
of incalculable benefit to those who
think of going into the cultivation on
large scale. He is satisfied from ex-
periments already tried that enough
could be successfully grown here to
Justify capital in putting up one or
more sugar beet factories. In this
connection he is trying all sorts of
experiments, to wit !: Different dates
of planting, the distance between rows
and hills, the timing out is carefully
looked after, and in fact what he will
not know about sugar beet culture
this fall won't be worth knowing.
The farmers in different parts of the
State are also trying their hand at
sugar beets, for $50 pounds of seed
has been distributed this month and
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