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48088 to 48102— Continued. 



48098. " TnwHvnal Kleinhorni wlieat. A very famous old wheat, 

 considered by expert millers the best of tiie South Afrleiin milling 

 wheats. It is grown under similar conditions to Wolkoren. 

 There are two strains, red and uhitc, but It is impossilde to get 

 seed of either of them pure. The Boers consider that the soil 

 affects the color and gradually changes while wheat to re<l or 

 vice versa." 



48099. " Gemsbok Oudebaard wheat. An old Cape Colony Ix'arded 

 white wheat, grown under irrigation In the karo«). Hrltstown 

 Division, Cape Province, where the rainfall is about 10 Inches 

 and the heat intense. It is a heavy yielder and the favorite 

 wheat in that part of the country. It is reconnnende<l for trial 

 in Arizona and New Mexico, under irrigation." 



48100. "Red Victoria. This wheat is grown coinnn'rcjally oidy on 

 the eastern high veld of the Transvaal; that is to say. in the dis- 

 tricts of Ermelo, Bethel, Standerton, Carolina, and Wakkerstroom, 

 where the rainfall is about 33 inches per annum, mainly in the 

 summer months. 



" It is grown as a winter crop, sometimes under irrigation, but In 

 .seasons where we receive a little winter rain it is treated an n 

 dry-land crop and is considered the only wheat which can be suc- 

 cessfully grown in those districts as n dry-land winter crop. It Is 

 sown in the months of .Tuly, August, and .'^^'ptenlber ; nJul it is per- 

 haps the only wheat which can be grown as late as September. 

 Red Victoria appears to he somewhat rust resistant ; it is har- 

 vested in the early summer and tiierefore subjtH-t to the early 

 summer rains, which bring rust to most wheat crojts. Tin* grain, 

 although small in appearance, is said to mill well. This may fit 

 in where climatic conditions do not suit regidar varieties, and I 

 would suggest the advisability of crossing Red Victoria with some 

 other of your regular varieties, on account of its rust-reslstlng 

 tendency." 



48101. Triticum durum Desf. Poacea". Durum wheat. 

 " Zvanrtbaard. An old Transvaal durum wheat, almost lust during the 



Anglo-Boer War. It is reconunended for its relative luirdiness; also 

 known as S. A. Medeah." 



48102. ViGNA SINENSIS (Tomer) Savi. Fabacese. Cowpea. 

 " Dlial. Grown for food by the Bantu tribes of tropical and subtropi- 

 cal Transvaal and Natal. It has been taken up by white fanners In 

 Rhodesia as a green-manure crop." 



48103 to 48144. 



From Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Presented by Prof. A. E. V. Richard- 

 son, agricultural superintendent. Received July 22, 1910. 

 " The following barley and oat varieties may be of interest to you. Some of 

 them will be familiar to you as American-grown varieties obtalne<l from the 

 United States some years ago and grown here ever since: those marked with 

 an asterisk (*) are of Australian breeding. Barleys \o8. S6 and ',!> are two 

 recent crossbreeds." {Richardson.) 



Introduced for specialists in the United States Department of Agriculture. 



