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 EXTRACTS FEOM EEGULAR COERESPOis^DENCE. 



THE EGYPTIAN COTTON-SEED. 



Sfeivari County^ Ga. — The Tiiinel Maki cottonseed from your Depart- 

 ment lias given different results. Some plantings have done very little 

 in fruiting, though the plant is all fine, while other plantings have a 

 heavy yield of bolls and are now doing well, never having been dis- 

 turbed by insects or other cotton accidents. 



Macon County, Ga. — The Tumet Maki cotton-seed sent to me by the 

 Department seems to have proved itself worthless. I planted some 

 of the seed on ground that would produce, with ordinary cotton, GOO or 

 700 pounds lint cotton to the acre. This will not produce 50. 



Bandolph County, AJa. — My Egyptian cotton, Tumel Maki, is doing 

 very well, considering the lateness of sowing and drought. I think it 

 will average twenty bolls to the stalk, five or six feet high ; common 

 cotton, two and three feet. 



Duplin Couniy,N. G. — Ax>ackage of Tumel Maki cotton seed received 

 from the Department has grown to an extraordinary height, but from 

 present appearances will not yield one-fourth the amount of our ordinary 

 cotton. 



Choican County, N. G. — The Egyptian cotton-seed was planted in due 

 time. The growth is very i)retty. Its leaf is much larger than the com- 

 mon variety, and the bloom yellow, while ours is white. It is at least 

 fifteen days later than ours, and I fear it will be too late for this climate. 



SCHOKEN OATS. 



GlarJc County, Miss. — I sowed four pounds of white Schonen oat-s on 

 one-ninth of an acre of flat pine-woods land, fertilized with ten bushels 

 of cotton-seed. Yield, four bushels-, weighing a little over forty pounds 

 to the bushel. I think the yield would have been one-third more but for 

 the frequent heavy rains at the time the oats were in bloom. Soifle rust 

 appeared on the' blades. Straw, bright and clean. I believe that it will 

 prove a good variety for this part of the State. 



Macon County, Ga. — The white Schonen oats did tolerably well, but 

 they are subject to rust, and, therefore, not so suitable to this section as 

 oats that are known as " rust-proof oats." 



ONIONS IN MISSISSIPPI. 



Yalahnslia County, Miss. — I planted the onion-seed in May, hoping to 

 get sets by fall, and, to my snri)rise, gathered a fine crop of onions, 

 some measuring thirteen inches in circumference. 



CORN FROM PERU. 



Lincoln County, N. C. — I planted the corn from Peru very carefully 

 and in rich soil ; it came up well but did hot flourish. It was planted 

 sufficiently early not to be afii^cted by the dronght, yet there has not 

 been a single shoot and but few tassels. From this I judge it will not 

 suit our climate. 



CALIFORNIA CLOVER. 



Victoria County, Texas. — The California clover is being tried as a for- 

 age crop with eminent success. 



