U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY— BULLETIN NO. 50. 



Ii. T. GALLOWAY, Chief of Bunati. 



AVILD BICE: 



ITS USES AND PROPAGATION. 



BY 



EDGAR BROWN. 

 Botanist in Charge of Seed Laboratory. 



AND 



CARL S. SCOFIELI). 

 Botanist in Charge of (train Grade Investigations. 



BOTANICAL INVESTIGATIONS AND EXPERIMENTS. 



Issued August 28, 1908. 



WASHINGTON: 



GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 



P.H.:;. 



