Show CROP FOR DRY FARMS lepary bean has big Pos possible ties for arid add sections professor Pro fenor clothier of arizona expert ment station says say plant Is one of mot most wonderful evar pro anted tented to public in a bulletin written by prof R W clothier of the university of arizona and published by tho the arizona expert ment station entitled D dry ry farman in the arid southwest prof Clot Cloth blei lej will introduce to the world a now new daj r farming crop which has wonderful pos pa for the arid sections of th world having a short chort rain period th crop to la the lepary bean obtained from the papago indians indiana by director R H forbes of the arizona experiment sta tion in the spring of 1909 and placed in the hands of prof clothier at that thai time to be tested for its dry farming possibilities writing of this bean prof clothier cayia after three years of experimenting with it I 1 am prepared to say that it li 11 one of the most wonderful plants ever presented to the dry farming public if it has a growing season of 76 75 days dayi it will make a fair crop and it it has hai 90 days it will make a good crop 11 II it la Is struck by a drouth it will the pods already set and when the th drouth b reake breaks it will set and ripen a g now new crop if it has haa five weeks in which to do it in 1911 beans planted jun 14 were struck with drouth july 20 after but inches of water had penetrated the soil the drouth continued until august 25 and was accompanied by extremely hot weather the fahrenheit thermometer frequently reaching a maximum of to degrees and averaging 99 degrees as a maximum or the entire period beans yield welt well notwithstanding these adverse conditions dit ions these beans beana ripened an average of pounds of seed per acre during this athla drouth then when the rains recurred the beans again began setting pods poda and matured an additional pounds of seed between september I 1 and october 15 on inches more of penetrating rainfall making a total yield of pounds per acre for the season moisture determinations in the boll solf made before planting showed that there was not over alyo inches of water available for plant production in the first tour four feet of soil and none in tho the subsoil below that depth when the beans were r planted plant t td d W when hen we consider the ex m dry character of the atmos t a 0 the arid southwest with its gr great eat power to absorb water 14 from s an anh plants these yields mad 10 lo r loon tiam are remark demair T e pink calp afi hasa tk Itsel fAs a drouth drout hr egister es ister made madej whatever during the drouth drotis aad only pounds per acre tor for ta the adire entire ibasun season under exactly the baiad conditions i average yield large duang duang three years of experimentation 13 3 plots of ono one quarter acre each oi of lepary beans have bare been grown and tho the average yield on all of them has been pounds per acre many of the plots have had extremely poor stands and on many of them the soil was waa ea dry at planting time that the beans beana remained in the ground six weeks before enough rain occurred to sprout sproat them and bring them up eleven similar plots of pink beans beana grown during the same period aver defea ages only pounds per acre under the tome some conditions three plots of rod red indian beans averaged pounds two plots of leopard wax pounds and two plots of hansen beans beam pounds pound sper per acre in 1909 when only inches of water penetrated the soil during the growing season and only 89 inches bad penetrated it since august of the preceding year lepary beans bans averages pounds per acre with a poor stand in 1910 the total water penetrating the soil during the growing season had received no water other than this since tho the preceding august lepary beans ava averaged raged pounds per acre with extremely poor stands tn in that year in 1911 a small klount of of rall rain had penetrated the all since the preceding august but had all dried out at planting time the penetrating rain during the growing season was inches four plots of lepary beans averaged pounds per acre on while two plots that had three and one halt half inches of irrigating water added to the soil two months before planting time averaged pounds per acre beans averaged 97 and loo pounds per acre respectively under conditions these yields certainly give this new crop an enviable place among the dry farming crops of aha world |