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Parts of Colorado would seem to possess some positive advantages 

 over the Eastern States in the culture of tobacco, and these are: 

 first, a long dry season, insuring the ripening of the latest kinds; sec- 

 ond, the presence of irrigation, enabling us to set out plants at the earli- 

 est possible moment and insuring a perfect stand; and. third, the ab- 

 sence of fall rains would assure to us the perfect curing of the leaf. 



Tennessee Experiment Station, Kno?cville : Big Orinoco very 

 good. White Burley very good. Gooch's Broad-leaf fine; leaves 

 18 inches long and 9 wide. 



Virginia. Hampton Normal School : Connecticut-seed Leaf made 

 a fine growth; rather coarse and heavy in quality. 



TREE (Tartarian maple). 



Colorado, Jefferson County : Made but little growth; seems tender. 

 Indiana Experiment Station : Did very poorly. 

 Michigan Agricultural College : It makes a desirable ornamental 

 shrub here. 

 Missouri Agricultural College : It is not entirely hardy here. 

 Texas Agricultural College : The plants summer-killed. 



TURNIPS. 



Connecticut Experiment Station : All the varieties of field turnips 

 did well and proved distinct and valuable. 



Indiana Experiment Station: Purple Top Strap-leaf is the best. 

 Milan Strap-leaf next. The Garden Rose did not do well. 



Louisiana, Tangipahoa Parish : All the varieties of turnip did 

 well. 



East Baton Rouge Parish : Reports all i\iQ turnips as doing well — 

 better than any other raised there. 



La Fourche Parish : Reports the Purple Top as giving excellent 

 results, although the weather was exceedingly dry. 



Massachusetts, Bussey Institution : The turnips all did well at 

 Pembroke. 



Neiv York, Monroe County : The turnips were excellent. Did well 

 in the hands of five or six parties. 



Texas, Limestone County : The turnips are a success, especially 

 the Purple Top. 



Tennessee Experiment Station : Great Southern Prize good for 

 greens. Purple Strap-leaf very productive and keeps well. White 

 Norfolk Extra very productive. Red Top Globe best of all for qual- 

 ity and productiveness. All the turnip seed was sown August 15 

 and turnips gathered November 4. 



Tennessee, Shelby County : Garden Rose and Milan Strap-leaf extra 

 good. 



WHEAT. 



_ Michigan Agricultural College : Reports that the imported varie- 

 ties — Genoese, White Crimean, Egyptian, and Indian — grew vigor- 

 ously in the fall, but were not sufficiently hardy to withstand the 

 winter. The Extra-Early Oakley also proved too tender for this lati- 

 tude. The Diehl Mediterranean is a bearded variety, having heads 

 about 3 inches in length. The straw is long and strong, being about 

 4 feet in length over the whole plat; no smut or rust; 3 to G stalks to 

 the stool; thick on the ground; ready for harvesting July 1, the berry 

 being plump and hard. McGhee's White showed some rust on the 



