Bisbee daily review., 1913-10-18
BIG BENEFITS FROM
 EXPERIMENT STATIONS
State Will Spend $75,000 This Year for Enlighten- ment of Farmers.

The agricultural experiment station is spending S75,000 this year ih deyel-
 opment work. The year will be one Of greater development and constructive effort than ever before according to Processor R. H. Forbes the director
 and this will result in great ncreasd , Of usefulness and influence. . Among the expenditures that are
 10 be made are: Salt River valley , farm, s30,OO0; university farm. Sll,- GOO: dry larwing. $3Oo0; date or chards S6500: farmers institutes. $4,-
 500: underflow, S2500; publications, ! S2259. horticulture, SZ00O; for plant ! breeding. $2000-
 Possible sites for the farm in the l Salt River valley are being examined and culturally this will be the most important Of the several farms con ducted by the station. It is a strate- gic point because of the importance of agriculture in that valley. The 1 present farm, not as well located as ] desirable. is to be gradually aban- { doned. Professor 4. II. McOmie is in charge of it at present. having taken { tue place of Professor F. ". Wilson, l whose services were needed a the az ricultural college at Tucson
 New buildings are being erected on thc university farm al Tucson 4
 pump house and machine shed are nearing completion. The cost is to be s4N00. Two wOrkfngmeE cottages to house iaborers on the farm are being built
 There have been fifteen acres ad-
 ditiOn1I of raw land cleared ard lev aInd It viii be planted to alfalfa and barley. which will be sufficient to feed the herd of registered dairy cows. This numbers p not couuunE a fine crop of calves Registered cattle from 1 Kansas and Iowa co S,iOnetaoin been added recently to the herd, There are Holsteirs, Jerseys. | Cueneeys ana Ayrshires. A few scrubs are kept to show a student the l relative profits to be made from them and from the blooded stock. These come from the islands of Jersey and , Guernsey.
 The improvements on the univeT- sity farm are being made so that it will have the highest possible value as an adjunct 10 this class of work. The milk house and dairy are being sunk C. F. FiIieTup. who has directed farm experiments for the Mexican govern ment IS in charge.
 The acreage of the farm at Yuma has been doubled. There are now
 twenty acres, which are 10 be iuten- sively cultivated, ideal conditions for
 thi stype of cultivation obtain by req son of the pIentitude of irrigatiug wa tier and the long growing season. E,Z-
 proyemeEt of wheat, beans and sweet IrOvement O Twhear, beans and sweet
 corn will be made. C. J.. Wood is in | charge.
 The dry farm at Prescott is being improved Additions are being made
 to the buildings and well is being sunk. Professor Forbes is preparing
 to continue the work o2 the last two
 years in a more thorough fashion. l.. L.. Bates is in charge
 Improvements 60 the buildings and
 date riDening equipment of the date
 farm at Tempe are being made In
 spite of the severe freeze of last win
 ter which destroyed ali leaves on the
 date palms, a small crop will be har- vested and marketed. This shows
 the remarkable recUperatiye power in
 this climate of date palms-far su- perior to citrus trees.