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Table U. ^Number of packages of grass and forage plant seeds distributed to experiment 



stations and universities. 



Experiment station or university. 



Alabama Experiment Station, AuDurn, Ala 



Arizona Experiment Station, Tucson, Ariz 



California Experiment Station, Berkeley, Cal 



Florida Experiment Station, Lake City, Fla 



Georgia Experiment Station, Experiment, Ga 



Hatch Experiment Station, Amherst, Mass 



Idaho Experiment Station, Moscow, Idaho 



Illinois Experiment Station, Urbana, 111 



Iowa Experiment Station, Ames, Iowa 



Kansas Experiment Station, Manhattan, Kans 



Louisiana Experiment Station, Calhoun, La 



Maryland Experiment Station, College Park, Md 



Michigan Experiment Station, Lansing, Mich 



Minnesota Experiment Station, St. Anthony Park, Minn. 



Minnesota sub-Experiment Station, Crookston, Minn 



Missouri Experiment Station Columbia, Mo 



Montana Experiment Station, Bozeman, Mont 



Nebraska Experiment Station, Lincoln, Nebr 



Nevada Experiment Station, Reno, Nev 



New Mexico Experiment Station, Mesilla Park N. Mex . 



New York Experiment Station, Geneva, N. Y 



North Dakota Experiment Station, Fargo, N. Dak 



Ohio Experiment Station, Wooster, Ohio 



Oklahoma Experiment Station, Stillwater, Okla 



Oregon Experiment Station, Corvallis, Ore 



Rhode Island Experiment Station, Kingston, R. I 



South Dakota Experiment Station, Brookings, S. Dak 



Tennessee Experiment Station, Knoxville, Tenn 



Texas Experiment Station, Col lege Station, Tex 



Utah Experiment Station, Logan, Utah 



Washington Experiment Station, Pullman, Wash 



Wisconsin Experiment Station, Madison, Wis 



Wyoming Experiment Station, Laramie, Wyo 



Cornell University, Botanical IDepartment, Ithaca, N. Y'.. 



New York Botanical Gardens, New Y'ork City 



Washington-Lee University, Lexington, Va 



Total. 



Fiscal year. 



1896-97. 1897-98. 1898-99. 



17 

 135 

 135 



45 



13 



6 



5 



135 



140 



7 

 63 

 67 



2 



72 



132 



5 



79 

 114 



71 



140 



5 



141 



74 

 115 



79 



128 



7 



135 



122 



84 



2, 281 



50 



3 

 22 



11 

 45 



9 



'38 



184 



36 



ii 



51 



Total. 



133 

 114 



109 



462 



18 



135 



139 



1 



46 



13 



92 



5 



146 



140 



1 



7 



63 



67 



2 



3 



94 



132 



5 



51 



8 



79 



114 



71 



140 



5 



152 



119 



115 



84 



129 



7 



268 



245 



84 



147 



2,927 



SEED DISTRIBUTION TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 



A large number of packages of grass and forage-plant seeds have 

 been distributed by the Division to foreign countries, from many of 

 which we have received in return seeds of promising varieties for cul- 

 tivation in this countiy. 



By examining Table No. Ill it will be seen that 1,110 packages 

 have been distributed during the last three years. Many requests 

 are received for seed for purely botanical purposes, so that only small 

 packages have been sent out. In 1897, 122 varieties of grass and 

 forage-plant seeds were sent to Prof. D. McAlpine, the government 

 vegetable pathologist for the Department of Agriculture, at Victoria, 

 New South Wales, the object being to test their growth under dif- 

 ferent conditions of soil, climate, and moisture, but mainly to prove 

 their drought-resisting properties. Twenty-one of these grasses 

 resisted drought, and of these seven were very conspicuous for 

 their fresh green growth. Among the forage plants other than the 

 grasses, two were found to be suitable to Australian conditions and 

 very resistant to drought. These were hairy vetch and a variety 



