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cakes after crushing and cooking. Plant used for the same purposes a* 

 No. 1. Heads used for brushes after the seeds are removed but are not so 

 good as those of No. 1." 



The height as grown here was fully six feet, the plants being taller and 

 later than a Japanese variety of the same species. Most of the seeds 

 matured. 



No. 4. Panicum Crus-galli. ''Height about the same as No. 3. The heads- 

 somewhat resemble No. 1, but are not used for brushes. The plant is used 

 for forage and the seeds are used with rice by the poorer classes and dur- 

 ing bad seasons. Cattle do not like the seeds." 



Similar in general appearance, but later in maturity than a Japanese 

 variety of the same species obtained through the Massachusetts Agricul- 

 tural College. The Corean variety did not begin to head until the last of 

 August, by which time the Japanese variety had entirely matured its 

 seeds. 



No. 5. Setaria Italica. "Height about the same as the last two. Heads 

 close, some long, some short. Used very largely for food in the north 

 where rice does not grow well. Much raised in mountainous districts for 

 food. Plant used for forage." 



This made a vigorous growth, much like German millet, and had 

 ripened part of its seed when killed by frost, September 23. The variety 

 is not quite uniform in character; most of the heads are close and slender, 

 not much over half an inch in diameter, but some are larger, more like 

 German millet. 



Siberian millet, Panicum miUaceum. Received in the spring of 1896 from 

 the U, S. Department of Agriculture. Sown May 20, it was nearly all 

 headed out June 29, before any heads had appeared on an adjoining row 

 of American "Broom Corn Millet," sown at the same time. Both varieties 

 ripened nearly together about the middle of August. The Siberian var- 

 iety was a little more dwarf than the American, and late in the season, 

 after the main crop had ripened, it continued to send out additional and 

 smaller fruiting panicles, while the American variety died completely 

 after maturing its seed. 



Ankee Grass. Panicum Crus-galli. From the U. S. Department of Agri- 

 culture in the spring of 1896. Seed collected in southern California and 

 Arizona, where it is used as food by the Indians. 



Sown May 20 on deep, fertile, sandy soil, in the same series with the 

 millets above described, it was the latest of them all to develop, most of 

 the plants heading out, but none of them maturing their seed. In general 

 habit it resembles the Corean and Japanese varieties of Crus-galli above 

 described, but the panicle or head approaches more nearly our native 

 form. The plants are extremely erect, often seven feet high, with sharp- 

 pointed erect leaves. In seasons like the present all three forms would 

 produce an immense amount of excellent fodder. 



SACALINE. 



Polygonum Sachalinense, Max. 



While we do not consider this forage plant of any value for the people 

 of this State, a brief report upon it may be of interest. Our plants were 

 started by sowing the seed in the greenhouse, March 20, 1895. In May^ 



