The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1915-02-18
'IEE LlMPSoN MAKES
MS ANNUAL REPORT
p1.ton County Agriculturalist
Tells Public Of His Activities
During the Past Year

During the Past Year
County Agriculturalist Lee M
vampson recently submitted to tn
county commissioners q report Gov
ling the activities Of his Office during
~ mast year. The report covers al
,h.ses of his work and shows thai
~ only has he been busy but thai
the farmers of the county are making
80 Of him and are getting results
from his advice. The report follows
in full:
EXPERIMENTS
Beginning in the spring on twelve
ems from two to five different dry
isnd forage crops were tried out: Iwt
q three gave some promise but tins
w,s an exceptionally good year be
cause of heavier moisture than usua
md they were only tried on q small
scale. Two new types of weeders FOL
this locality are being tried out.
An experiment was carried on tt
.omnare the amount Of irrigation wa
tsr required for ferita to that re
m;red for corn. / have an expert.
1csnt planned with kale under irriga.
t;on. I now have under way four hog
feedinr experiments in different parts
a. tie county; the lots contnin four
twenty-nine and ninety hogs.
I also have under way an expert.
,,ert to determine the value of apple
pulp as fertilizer.
DEMONSTRATIONS
with the co operation Of eight.
tan farmers in different parts Of
IN county, demonstrated or
from three to twenty acres 9
u.ctical way to keep the cheat out
e the alfalfa fields on each Of the
eirhteen farms. These dem0nstra.
tions were successful where carried
out in detail.
secured the cooperation OF about
twenty-five farmers to demonstrate
hov TO grow q good yield Of corn un.
ar irrigation. The acreage used was
from one to eight acres. These dem.
onstrations were all successful.
About twenty-five or thirty grew
tomatoes under my directions; all OF
these were successful and number Oh
these same farmers had tried to grow
/. tomatoes several years in succession
before and failed.
LINES OF SPECIAL INVES-
TICATION
On account Of there being so much
alfalfa raised here and shipped out
- - ;rr..t;c.t;on Of The nossibilities' al
s :. ti.. sI His GOD ;n the county
-s.,,5+. ~ tha st,,dv while MT an.
.n., 80 .' a. ~, not smf|ic;ent tn draw
S..ss,.;nn. from Sod nrodrct;or
-. hssr tried = tho valley IN : ver1
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- s..1 ~ r, ~ s .nnd;t;ons fonse.
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rn.to ..cw;rs ' hscsuse " The ;mnress;or
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ysrt " - ..s Ie- -. rr ~ farrs
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som. 49, 49, s =. So :. .;i,,r. ~
ms1s Ivy W.: la . L.. 4.
- ~s =: ssme s.uuy ~ .nesS RicSe'
esrts;r . rr.sts sDI W. 49, av toiior.J :,
SstsH X 1 tn nsI DSeh awl .,,.ca..
ful IN eyerv casa. and that where an,
one Of these practices had not beel
carried out carefully the tomatoes hat
been failure. / then worked ou
TINS Information in the form Of de
tailed instruction. A number of farm
g! have followed these instruction,
this year and ] have yet to find tn
hrst failure under them.
Corn
JInor h..;nn;.~.. ,r..r :, ~,
okOn beginning my Work IN I'M