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The lettuces by growth could be classed as (1) hcarii-fi/pe- 

 salads: — Ideal, Matchless, Iceberg, Mammoth Salamander, Black- 

 seeded Simpson, AYay-ahead, Mignonette, Golden (Jueen, (lolden Ball, 

 Algiers; or (2) light tveiglits. — Early curled Simipson, Grand Eapids 

 forcing, Trianon self-folding, Wonderful, Nonsuch, and White 

 heart. 



Of Suttons' the following showed themselves eaiii/ : — Ideal, 

 Matchless, Nonsuch, White heart, White Golden ball and Early Paris : 

 — of Dreer's, Trianon self-folding. Mignonette, Big Bositon, Early 

 Curled Simpson, Mammoth Salamander, Iceberg, Black-seeded 

 Simpson. 



Of Dreer's the following showed themselves late : Golden 

 Queen, Improved Hanson, Grand Eapids forcing, Way-ahead, Hitin- 

 ger's Belmont, California cream Initter. 



The cost of cultivation is very low^ as under: and a man can 

 manage one fifth of an acre wdth ease. 



Cost of cultivation for one tenth acre . . . . $40. 5T 



Gross yield per one tenth acre . . . . . • 60.00 



Total net income . . . . . . . • • • 19.43 



G. B. Deshmukh. 



AN EXPERIMENT WITH SORGHUM VULGARE, 



THE GREAT MILLET OR JUAR, FROM THE 



BOMBAY PRESIDENCY. 



The accompanying plate shows (behind the men who stand in 

 it) a plot measuring 25 feet long by 10 feet, planted with millet at 

 12 by 12 inches in all directions. " The smaller plants in front of 

 the men do not belong to the plot. This millet, which is in ear, is 

 a race raised from seed kindly supplied by Dr. Harold H. Mann, 

 Director of Agriculture, Bombay, as one of the best of the district 

 of Khandesh, its exact origin "being the town of elalgaon in the 

 Tapti Yalley. The seed was one of two lots received together, the 

 other being from Ahmednagar, Bombay Presidency. 



The two lots were sown in contiguous plots on 21st August 

 1919, the sowing being done by hand in shallow channels traced 

 along the ground at one foot apart. 



Three weeks after, thinning out took place, the pick of the 

 thinned-out seedlings being transplanted to a second plot near by. 

 These operations were both done on the same day for the t\vo lots ; 

 and the transplanted plots were also contiguous. It may therefore 

 be said that both races were raised under absolutely identical con- 

 ditions of soil, of weather and of cultivation. Both races suffered 

 in the same degree from the attacks of the sugar cane l)orer (Chilo 

 simplex) which was found in almost every stem and also from 

 "aphids" and from bird-depredation. Yet the diiference of 

 growth and of yield between the two varieties was very remarkable. 



