Show on DR ALKALI WORK dr F S harris director arid and agronomist of tile utah agricultural station one of 0 the authorities on oil alkali and related work in ill the country today has lust just mado made another valuable contribution to this subject ile he was assisted in ili his recent investigations by mr air D W pittman Pl assistant agronomist tho the work just completed was con d acted to determine tho the relative re ance wico ol of various crops to alkali tho the general conclusions arrived at by dr harris and mr pittman aro are d t at for alkali land tho the cereals are tile tho best of tho the crops investigated and the grasses the poorest ot of the forage crops detches vetches vet ches cowpeas cow peas al falfa and sweet clover are superior to tho the grasses timothy and alalie clover which are recognized as good crops for or wet land are shown to be relatively nonresistant non resistant arid and probably should not noc bo be included among the forage crops for agrall I 1 land that la is very wot wet much aluch ot of the former work nork along this line has been done under field conditions but there are so many in luen luancing cing factors entering into such experiments that dr harris decided 0 conduct lih his work in ili the labora ory where most of oc these factors bo controlled and the biado much moie extensive than la Is possible llila under field conditions the were begun in 1917 and tended bonded ton ded over a period of two years soils bere iere prepared containing in 1111 chloride sodium carbonate nd ind soil sodium luin sulfate three of the in ast st common alkali salts in varl vari concentrations the soil was wa ms its placed in glass tumblers in ili each 0 which I 1 en cit seeds were planted A to belity were tested jr an fn 1 at al of 0 8 sc nty crops eluding alo I 1 various varieties 0 practically ivery very field crop grown i he be state I 1 lie plants were to grow tor for a definite period velch they were carefully measured dried a ud d weighed interesting and val bitable I 1 data recorded during t tl 1 1 10 period 0 growth the I 1 jesuits of th this if irk in detal deta have been published lly liy lie he estatio n bulletin form and will be read for free hy by mall mail to th people of the state within the nex lew few days accod accod ding to director T giai 1 ris |