Arizona republican., 1903-07-13

at $7O0O,OOO. Many of the stations have given special attention to the eco nclnic use of manure on the farm. with the result that better methods for it's care and use are being employed.
 The successful introduction of Man sury barley. for which the Wisconsin station is mainly responsible. has in creased the yield of barley over wide region, with results worth millions of dollars.
 Kaffir corn was introduced about fifteen years ago by the stations in California. Kansas and Oklahoma. It has been found specially suited to re- gions of scanty rainfall. The crop in Kansas alone in 1899 was valued at over S6,OOOO0O.
 A variety of cats introduced by the department of agriculture and tested and improved by the Wisconsin and other stations has been widely distri- buted and is grown with an average. increase yield wherever it is sown of from three to five bushels an acre.
 The various macaroni wheats which have been tested under varying condi- tions by a number of the stations have proved so successful that the United States will probably produce all the macaroni it consumes in the course Of a few years.
 The Investigations of the experiment stations in the southern states have convinced farmers tht many varieties of forage plants may be more success fully grown in the south than was supposed and have laid the foundation for a wide development of the live stock and dairy industries of that re- glen.
 The department of agriculture and the Connecticut state station. CO., operating with local tobacco growers, have within the last three years dem- Onstrated that a fine grade of Sumatra wrapper tobacco may be grown under shade in the Connecticut valley. Prof. Whitney says that this discovery will increase the value of the light lands of Of the Connecticut valley over 200 per cent.
 Speaking of the work of the Minnes- ota station in breeding wheat, w. s. Harwood has recently written that it Is not only quite possible. but is in deed an established fact, that wheats superior to the best the world has pos sessed may now be produced. By the use of the new wheats the crop of the hard wheat region of the northwest may be increased from three to five bushels to the acre.
 The stations of the northwestern states have extended the limits of corn culture by proving, by careful selec- tions of varieties and modified meth ods of culture, that this crop may be grown in regions heretofore believed to be unsuited to corn culture. The stations have been prominent in the investigations which have led to the new system of forcing vegetables in the field and under glass for sup plying the markets with fresh vegeta- bles at all seasons of the year. For ex- ample, the winter culture Of lettuce in eastern North Carolina is now yield ing over S1OO,O00 a year. The Ohio sta l-tion discovered that onions started in the green house or under frames from seed and then transplanted to the open field produce larger onions and earlier and heavier crops than by the usual
 methods of tIllage and seeding. This discovery is changing the methods of onion culture.
 These are only a few of the many ways in which the experiment stations are helping agriculture. Their investi- cations relating to protective measures against plant diseases and injurious
 insects, the storage and utilization of fodder crops, breeding and dairying,
 the protection of farmers against fraud
 and many other topics have been Of | the utmost value.