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Title
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Field Notes, 1912, Part 2_047
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Alternative Title
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Field Notes, 1912, Part 2
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Date
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1912
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Creator
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Raymond J. Pool
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Description
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Raymond J. Pool Field Notes
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Identifier
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120712
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Transcription
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47 33 being cropped and tramped to very dangerous degree. The animals were very "measley" looking - about 1000 head of ewes & rams & 300 lambs. I saw some fields that had been broken out about 7 mi. south of Seneca that were in a deplorable condition. They were in good level valleys with good soil for alfalfa but had been allowed to go to weeds to a frightful degree. Helianthus petiolaris and H. Annuus controlled practically all such fields some of which contained as much as 60 a. If fields are allowed to stand idle here, i.e. if not used for crops, They should at least be surface cultivated to keep down weeds and to conserve or "store" water for succeding crops. All such fields would produce fine crops of alfalfa or timothy. July 5 Left Seneca at 10 am for Orella . All along the way to Alliance there waere many signs of the recent heavy rains. Water was standing in many of the dimensions and all streams were muddy. Ipomoea leptophylla was just begining to bloom, and Phalaris arundinacea , Asclepias speciosa and A. incarnata were in full bloom in wet meadows and valleys. Batrachium divaneaten was still in blossom in many places. Arrived Ocella at 5 p.m.
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Rights
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