The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-07-09
irrigation Experiment Farm
at Prosser Prepared
for Inspection
PROGRAM AT PARK
IN THE MORNING
Various Results Tabulated
for Benefit of Farmers in
Irrigation District

There will be something of interest
for everyone who visits the Irrigation
Branch Experiment station at Pros
ser on July 10th is the opinion of R
p Bean, superintendent of the sta
ton. The 200 acre farm was cleared
Of sagebrush in 1919 and 1920. Some
experimental work with field crops
and soils was begun in 1921 upon the
appointment of H. P. Singleton as
argonomist at the station. Irrigation
and alkali studies in cooperation with
the U. S. Department of Agriculture
were started in 1922 by C. C. Wright,
specialist in irrigation Investigations.
The experiments in horticulture which
were begun in 1922 are now carried
on by Harry j. Jensen, the station
horticulturist. Winter feeding exper-
iments with lambs and steers, the
dairy herd, hogs and poultry, are
handled by the superintendent. Each
Of these men work in close coopera-
ton with the staff of the main agri-
cultural experiment station at Pull
man, thereby securing valuable sug-
gestions and direction for the exper-
mental program at Prosser.
According to previous announce
ment for Field Day, all visitors are
invited to meet in the beautiful, sha-
dy park at Prosser at noon, and to
bring their basket lunches for pic
mic dinner. The Prosser Community
club will furnish coffee and iced tea.
County agent Lovett of Yakima and
7. ]. Stockdale of Prosser are ar
ranging to settle the championship
Of the upper and lower valleys in
barnyard golf. An undefeated indoor
baseball team is understood to be
looking for worthy rival with whom
to cross bats before the grandstand
at noon on this date. Dean Edward
G. Johnson, director of the Agricul-
tural Experiment station, and Prof.
Z. G. Schafer, head of the division of
farm crops at Pullman, will give
short talks. President E. o. Holland
and the board of regents of the state
college have been invited to attend.
An inspection of the experiment
station farm, four miles northeast of
Prosser, will be made following the
short program during the noon hour.
transportation will be furnished for
those who come by train. Visitors will
oe conducted to the various expert
mental plots by the station special
nts who will discuss the work under
way there. Questions and free dis
eussion are invited at this time, that
each farmer may understand how re-
suits from the experiments may be
made useful to him and that the ex-
Rrlment station men may gain adj
utlonal viewpoints for their work.
The following itinerary will be fol-
owed at the station: Visitors will
INST cross the mixed grasspasture
aad onto the sweet clover pasture.
lasture carrying capacity and milk
Noduction data will be discussed. The
even alfalfa varieties are close by,
'0ur complete years yields have been
recorded. The 20 varieties of sweet
r'atoes and five methods of irriga-
sOns OF this crop will be next, fol-
IWed by Irish potato spacing and ir-
.yatlon experiment. The route is to
ne orchard cover crops where seven
Sops are growing on shaded and un-
Aaded ground.
ms area is beside the four old ap-
re orchards where four methods of
sVu management and four systems of
s'uning are being carried on. The
lIu1sery of miscellaneous forage and
ssume crops lies just east Of the
Scnard and the corn acclimatization
1peflment beside it.
Inc course will pass an automatic
A. MI register where a pencil records
,;s,a t. amount of water flowing day and
ss ent. Sulfur has been applied for
H. es r. Years to an alfalfa field near
MI n Inc next stop will be to watch a
H.. ,.nerged orifice meter record acre
1ss iss..v U1 water on a dial. Beside this
ss1s s1ssaatlon are the variety trials OF
~: u peas and cereals. The fall irri-
.;Ull m,;O OF alfalfa experiment, fall and
i. irrigation of corn land, and
orn variety plots will be next
On .uer irrigation is being practiced
h,Sn acres of alfalfa. The interval
sna;0 ssen irrigation and duty of water
N,taeIs are under way on this area.
se = VIII be running to demonstrate
i,lf.' 'Order method of irrigation. Al
o. ~ seed Production plots are next
kld;as path which passes the water
htioa capacity checks where the re-
s,vs..o VI water and soil is under OBJ
TN. .iUn. .u The field to the south con-
ee beginning of carefully plan