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11. Seeds of Standard Grasses, a, Rescue-grass; b, Texas 



Blue-grass; c, Chess, or Cheat; d, Canada Blue- 

 grass; e, Bromus inermis; /, Kentucky Blue-grass. 

 (G. H. Hicks, Year-book, Department of Agricul- 

 ture, 1898) 59 



12. Gathering Kentucky Blue-grass Seed near Lexington, 



Kentucky. (From Bulletin 19, Bureau of Plant In- 

 dustry, United States Department of Agriculture) 61 



13. Curing Kentucky Blue-grass Seed Outdoors. 50,000 



bushels in one curing-bin. (From Bulletin 19, 

 Bureau of Plant Industry, United States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture) . . . . . .63 



14. Weed Seeds, a, Pepper-grass (Lepidium virginicum)\ 



b, Slender Rush (Juncus ttnuis)\ c, Velvet-grass 

 (ffolcus lanatus)\ d, Five-finger (Potentilla mons- 

 peliensis)] e, Ox-eye Daisy (Chrysanthemum leucan- 

 themum)\ f, Sorrel {Rumex acetosella)\ g t False Flax 

 (Camelina sativd}\ //, Canada Thistle (Cardmts ar- 

 vensis} ......... 67 



15. Home-made Seed-tester, a, Closed; b, Open. (From 



Farmers' Bulletin 194, United States Department 



of Agriculture) 73 



16. Timothy 76 



17. Distribution of "Other Tame Grasses," mostly Tim- 



othy. (Compiled from Census of 1900.) Each 

 large dot represents a county producing more than 

 5,000 acres. The smaller dots represent 1,000 

 acres each . . . . . . . . .7,9 



18. Kentucky Blue-grass 91 



19. Distribution of Kentucky Blue-grass. Each dot rep- 



resents a correspondent reporting blue-grass im- 

 portant in his section ...... 94 



