TESTS OF DEPARTMENT SEEDS. 



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TESTS OF DEPARTMENT SEEDS. 



The kinds and quantities of seeds distributed by this Department 

 during the year 1872 are exhibited in the following statement : 



Tabular stalement showing the quauWy and kinds of seeds issncd from the Seed Division dur- 

 ing the year 1872. 



Ifames of seeds. 



Vegetables, 218 variet ies papers . 



Flowers, 160 varieties do 



Herbs, 1:2 varieties do... 



Tree and everg-reen, 50 varieties do. . . 



FIELD SEEDS. 



Wheat, 4 varieties quarts . 



Oats, 4 varieties do... 



Barley, 3 varieties do. . . 



Kye, 1 variety do... 



Buclcwheat do. . . 



Field corn, 2 varieties do... 



peas pints. 



Grass-seeds, 5 varieties quarts. 



Clover, 7 varieties pints. 



Tobacco, 4 varieties papers . 



Sugar-beet, 2 varieties pints. 



Mangel-wurzel, 4 varieties do... 



"Vetclies or tares do... 



Osage orange papers. 



Sorghum quarts . 



Opium poppy papers. 



Broom-corn do . . . 



Tea seeds do... 



Rice quarts- 



Cotton, 2 varieties quarts . 



Eamio papers . 



Hemp, 2 varieties one-half pints. 



Jute : do... 



Flax quarts. 



Amounts. 



3g) 

 go 



14.'i, 105 



76, 234 



3, 907 



12, 805 



4,559 



2, 195 



79C 



1,956 



345 



603 



2,070 



950 



21, 835 



81 



53 



93,458 

 25,680 



8,744 

 7,150 

 3, 452 



240 



1,200 



2, 224 



16 



248 

 4,204 

 4,210 

 2, 454 



153, 344 



75, 455 

 10, 900 



10,300 

 5,206 

 1,348 

 3,080 

 2,952 

 828 

 1,674 

 4 



12, 982 

 7,030 



111,901 



20, 012 



150, 662 



76, 965 



759 



1, 471 



0, 77.) 



4,105 



1,712 



278 



34 



1,615 



838 



1,760 



934 



5, 4P5 



474 



472 



163 



74 



205 



435 



24 



202 



21 



237 



477, 662 



196, 809 



4,726 



1,539 



37, 624 



21, 020 



8,707 



4,154 



5, 182 



3,988 



5, 339 



3,856 



2,138 



31, 664 



4,765 



2,973 



163 



74 



227 



505 



24 



232 



35 



562 

 225 

 125 

 237 

 4 



814, 56.1 



Eo labor has been spared nor available sources of information neg- 

 lected in promoting the usefulness of this branch of the Department's 

 work, assigned to it by Congress — "to procure, propagate, and dis- 

 tribute among the people new and valuable seeds and plants." 



It is worthy of note, and gratifying to the Department, that api^lica- 

 tions for small quantities of improved or superior seeds, with a view to 

 future larger plantings, are constantly increasing, and that so many 

 farmers and planters conscientiously and intelligently report the results 

 of their experiments. Such reports, formerly received by tens, are now 

 received by hundreds. Of these a permanent record is kept by the 

 Department, and the more signilicant of them reproduced in its monthly 

 or annual publications. These reported experiments serve the double 

 purpose of enlightening thepublic in regard to the varieties of seeds of the 

 grains, grasses, and other plants best adapted to certain localities, and 

 of guiding the Department in its purchases and distributions. The in- 



