ON SOME UNTRIED EXPERIMENTS 



produce an excellent flour with a slight yellow 

 tinge. 



When prepared and baked in the ordinary way, 

 it made a very good bread. 



I was quite sure that a grain of good commer- 

 cial value could be produced by further selective 

 breeding from the seed of this brome. But I had 

 only a small quantity of seed, and as other mat- 

 ters took my attention I neglected to plant it for 

 two or three seasons; and when it finally was 

 planted it failed to germinate. So the experiment 

 came to an end in unsatisfactory fashion s yet not 

 without offering interesting suggestions as to the 

 possibilities of development of this and other 

 plants of the tribe. 



Unfortunately I was not quite sure as to the 

 exact species of brome that furnished the material 

 for this experiment. Moreover, I have not found 

 another plant that showed the same exceptional 

 qualities of seed, with which a new line of inves- 

 tigation might be begun. The one mentioned was 

 discovered only after careful inspection of more 

 than twenty-five thousand examples. 



But the finding of one sufficiently proves that 

 there must be others to be found if we search 

 widely enough, so I record the experience as a 

 stimulus to farther search and investigation with 

 a tribe of grasses represented by numerous other 



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