LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS xvii 



FIGURE PAGE 



51-52. Side and branched panicle of oats. (Plant Breeding 



Department, Cornell University) 148 



53 Broad-casting oats. (Successful Farming) .... 157 



54. Seeding oats with a drill ....... 158 



55. Testing varieties of cereals. (Dr. C. E. Saunders, Dominion 



Experimental Farms, Ottawa) 159 



56. Variation in stiffness of straw 160 



57. Treating seed oats for smut. (Extension Department, Ohio 



State University) 161 



58. Covered and loose smut of oats ...... 162 



59. Spikelets of barley . 165 



60. Two-rowed barley 166 



61. Six-rowed barley . ........ 167 



62. A field of Manchurian barley at Indian Head, Canada. (Dr. 



C. E. Saunders) 174 



63. A head of rye 178 



64. Plowing under rye. (Extension Department, Ohio State 



University) 180 



65. Rye seeded in corn at last cultivation. (Successful Farming) 182 



66. A panicle of rice ......... 185 



67. Harvesting rice in Arkansas. (Successful Farming) . . 188 



68. Buckwheat in bloom ........ 190 



69. Timothy in bloom. (Plant Breeding Department, Cornell 



University) . . . . . . . . .195 



70. Cutting timothy hay. (International Harvester Company) 199 



71. Plots of timothy at Cornell University. (Plant Breeding 



Department) 200 



72. Kentucky blue-grass. (Agronomy Department, Ohio Station) 202 



73. Redtop. (Agronomy Department, Ohio Station) . . 207 



74. Orchard grass in full bloom 210 



75. Brome-grass. (Agronomy Department, Ohio Station) . 213 



76. Meadow fescue. (Agronomy Department, Ohio Station) . 216 



77. Common and Siberian millet .222 



78. German millet 223 



79. Broom-corn millet 224 



80. Barnyard millet 225 



81 Cutting sorghum. (Agronomy Department, Kansas Agri- 

 cultural College) ........ 231 



82. Heading kafir in Texas. (Professor A. G. McCall) . . 235 



