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“SEED DIVISION. (0 8/0) 657. 
ents with new or hitherto. unknown varieties in forage, grain, 
tobacco, and cotton products become through its means the property © 
of every intelligent farmer. The experiments with old varieties in 
new localities and the reports received from agricultural societies 
and individuals in every section of the country are of growing im- 
portance. The inquiries and replies from our consular agents in all 
parts of the world in regard to the new varieties of products which 
are now being so extensively introduced from Japan, Corea, and the 
islands of the sea, with the interesting accounts of their successful ° 
cultivation in the different sections of our own widely extended and 
rapidly developing country, embrace but a small part of the corre- 
spondence of the Seed Division. 
We append some of the most interesting. The Persian Tobacco, ~ 
which is now being disseminated, is produced in Hindostan and the 
provinces bordering on the Caspian Sea. It is highly esteemed and 
sought after by the wealthier class of Orientals for smoking through. 
rose water, and is exported to Russia, and used in the manufacture 
of cigarettes. 
The boom which Tobacco has taken in Florida in the past two 
years has created a great inquiry for good and new varieties of the 
weed. The Delli (or Sumatra) has been a variety for which there 
has been the greatest demand. This Tobacco is originally from Delli, 
a very large and populous colony of Sumatra. The Dutch authori- 
ties hoard it with jealous care, and it is difficult to obtain the seed. 
for foreign growth. The tobacco from all the districts of the east 
coast of Sumatra goes into the market of the civilized world under 
the name of the Delli. The Floridian, of Tallahassee, Fla., pub- 
lished the following account of the result of growing tobacco in 
Leon County from Sumatra seed, sent from the Department of Agri- 
culture at Washington for free distribution : 
Last Saturday Mr. J. C. Shine brought to the Floridian office a single stalk, which 
was about as much as he could well carry, with a number of the largest leaves cut 
off. The plant was over 4 feet 10 inches high, and the leaves 29 inches long and 
over 13 inches broad. Many persons have examined this sample plant who know 
good tobacco when they see it, and all agreed that it was very fine and that they 
never saw tobacco equal to it. Mr. G. K. Clark, who comes from the famous Suf- 
field tobacco section of Connecticut, says it eclipses anything he ever saw in the 
tobacco line. 
The high prices demanded for the Sumatra tobacco have led to the 
. formation of a company that has purchased large tracts of land in 
Florida and will go largely into tobacco growing next year. There is 
no reason why that State should not take a high stand among the 
tobacco-growing States of the nation. 
REPORTS OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS, AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES’ 
AND ASSOCIATIONS. 
CEREALS. 
CORN. 
The White Giant Normandy gives excellent satisfaction from southern Alabama 
to northern Missouri. The Mosby produces finely from central Florida to central 
New York, on the Atlantic border, and also makes a wonderful yield in the Missis- 
sippi Valley., Pride of the North produces splendid crops in the Spring-Wheat grow- 
ing districts as far north as central Wisconsin and southern Dakota. Yellow 
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