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Mr. G. W. Covey, Laddonia, Audrian County, Mo. : 

 The seed was sown in an old orchard where the hogs had been rooting. It did 

 very well. 



Mr. J. S. Holmes, Bowmans Bluff, Henderson County, N. C. : 

 The seed was sown in two different plats. Plat A was fairly good upland soil on 

 a steep hillside, facing the east, with a yellow clay subsoil. Plat B was poor, sandy, 

 bottom land close to the river. The ground was plowed and Imrrowed and the seed 

 sown broadcast on April 8, 1897, at the rate of 30 pounds to the acre. Plat A was 

 harrowed in and plat B was covered with a garden rake. Plat A looks well and is 

 taller than the trial plat of blue grama, but not so thick on the ground. We have 

 had the thermometer down to 12° already, without snow, and it has not killed it. On 

 plat B there is not a single plant. It came up all right, but was killed by the summer 

 drought. Plat A survived the winter very well and quite a lot of it bloomed in the 

 summer of 1898. 



Mr. T. P. Kerr, Cambray, Donna Ana County, N. Mex. : 



The seed was sown on alluvial soil in July. This is a native grass and did well. 

 In its wild state it makes fine hay when it has plenty of rain. 



Prof. T. L. Lyon, Experiment Station, Lincoln, Nebr. : 



An upland, loamy soil, with considerable alkali and a tendency to pack, was used. 

 The ground was plowed 8 inches deep and worked to a fine tilth. The seed was 

 sown in rows, 6 inches apart, on May 5, 1897, on a 3 by 3 foot plat, and again broad- 

 cast May 30 on one-tenth of an acre. The grass bloomed about the first of August, 

 1898, and ripened about the end of August. The yield per acre was about 3 i tons of good 

 feed. This is a promising grass for cultivation as it seeds abundantly and furnishes 

 a large quantity of good hay. It has the disadvantage of starting its growth late in 

 the spring and drying up in midsummer. It is not so hardy under cultivation as in 

 the wild state, for all of it was killed out in the winter of 1898-99. 



Mr. L. Miles, Sheridan, Kingtisher County, Okla. : 



Some bottom land was well plowed and harrowed. The seed was sown broadcast 

 on March 20 on timber land. None of this germinated, so I sowed again on April 2 

 on well-prepared soil. The seed ripened about August 15. I don't feel like condem- 

 ing it, but I think trouble would be experienced in getting it to start, as our soil 

 dries quickly after rain. 



Mr. Samuel Roskelley, Logan, Cache County, Utah: 



A virgin sage-brush upland was plowed 5 inches deep, harrowed, replowed8 inches 

 deep, then thoroughly harrowed. The seed was sown broadcast on April 16, 1897, 

 and covered with a slanting-tooth harrow. I cut the crop on August 2, 1897, when 

 it was just out of bloom, in order to save what I could, as the drought began to dry 

 it up fast. It seemed to do reasonably well for the chance it had. The yield was 

 about 2 tons per acre. It will no doubt make a good crop of hay of good quality. It 

 withstood the drought better than the other varieties. 



Mr. G. D. Tillman, Clarks Mills, Lexington County, S. C. : 



The land was freestone soil in which grasses and forage plants are at a great disad- 

 vantage, owing to the lack of lime. The side oats grama is doing well and promises to 

 be a good grass for this country. It spreads slowly, but surely, and stock likes it. 



Mr. Henry Wehry, North Vernon, Jennings County, Ind. : 



The soil was a stiff clay, underlaid with slate and fertile enough to produce any 

 kind of a crop. The ground was plowed and harrowed and the seed was sown in 



