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STATE BOAED OF AGKICULTUKE. 



I have sent some varieties to Prof. Tracy, of Missouri, some to Illinois State 

 University, to Prof, Morrow, and some to Ohio Agricultural College, with 

 smaller samples to various individuals in our own State. 



I have also received from Pennsylvania Agricultural College two bushels of 

 Shumaker wheat, to try in quantity, as that seemed to promise so well this 

 year. The following is a list sown in plats this year : 



"WHITE VAKIETIES. 



I have also received from Mr, Armstrong, of Schoolcraft, several hybrids ; 

 also some that Prof. Beal has hybridized. These are as follows : 



Armstrong with Lancaster. Deihl with Egyptian Red. 



'•' Tread well. 

 Armstrong and Deihl with Treadwell, 



Dedil witli Amber, 



" " Lancaster, 

 Arn] strong with White Amber, 

 Clawson with Deihl. 



This is a double hybrid. 

 Asiatic with Gold Medal. 



At the request and suggestion of Prof. Beal we have sown the grains in each 

 of two fine heads of wheat, in the same relative order in Avhicli they grew in the 

 head. This is done in order to note the growth of the grain from different por- 

 tions of the head, and compare their growth and the result reached. The ar- 

 rangement for this and the supervision of it has occupied largely my time. 



Besides the above, I have sown Clawson wheat in small plats, side by side, 

 so as to note the work of the Hessian lly on that sown at different times ; soil 

 and other conditions were equal, as nearly as possible. These plats were sown 

 respectively on September G, 9, 11, 13, 16, 18, 21, 24, 27, 30, and October 2 and 

 ■5, On October 5 Prof, Cook and myself made a careful and thorough examin- 

 ation of these i)lat8, and fou.nd Hessian fly larva"^ in each of the plats sown be- 

 fore September 25th, there being fewer as the sowing was later. Those larvae 

 in the first two plats were in the flax-seed or pupa state, Li that plat sown on 

 ■September 13 I found 9 larvaa? in a single stool of wheat, and 4 in a single stool 

 •of that sown on September IG ; less in those plats sown on September 18 and 

 :21. Our field wheat was sown on September 10, 17 and 18, and they were 

 found in that sown on each day, but most in that sown on the first day, or Sep- 

 tember IG, 



'J'iiese plats will be carefully watched another year, and any changes noted. 

 Also the varieties will be watched with reference to the work of the Hessian fly 

 x>ii each. 



