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Show Station Field Bay at .enty-five imately 100 Pe?le fhe ?our Tues adjoining counties made tl f iment day at e fnpeteountyt Eph farm 0nTnose in attendance from nam. Those ii . p v. other parts of the j. Icardon. Director of the SU ment Station Dr. Oeoig w Agronomist of the V A ;- -j. W. Inroad of Denver Singh, . assistant director of ag y L punjab province of 1 . Johnson of the bio Nephi. County At K Smi tn in addition to heann s I from most of the me" exDeriment Self 'and su f fa-farm fa-farm itself ana q prom. i missioned consisting oi Qf local county agent C. O. stott- . In looking over a five acr i tiact of TriQh Cobbler potatoes on JacoD Insn ooddili h Denver Thompson's land Mr. onn oi had the following to say: I have nev er seen more promising and a b looking patch of potatoes at any tune in all my travels in Colorado. Mi-0,i Mi-0,i continues. "I believe the this peat area have us beat for qual ty , and quantity in the fa us San Louise viulev in Colorado." When askea lhaThe thought of the yield of grain Dr George Stewart replied, My best iudgoment in that the Trebi bar ey on this field will yield from 95 to 100 ' bushels to the acre; the Swedish select . cats will yield about the same, and the I early bart wheat about 50 bushels to 'the acre." Dr. Stewart continues, "The peas "in this area are as good as can be grown anywhere." Van"s men in the party estimated that the peas would return at least $100 per acre. . Experiments are being conducted in soil fertility, crop rotation, plant variety vari-ety tests, various methods of preparing the seed bed, etc. Supt. LeMoyne Wilson was commended very highly for the splendid work he is doing and the fine condition in which the farm was found. |