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The Rorists^ Review 



Febboabt 19, 1920 



planting in the spring of 1919 in the 

 fiber flax regions of Michigan and Ore- 

 gon. These strains, developed by sev- 

 eral generations of selection, produce 

 flax, reports the chief of the Bureau of 

 Plant Industry, that ia decidedly su- 

 perior to fiber flax grown from commer- 

 cial seed of either recent or remote im- 

 portation. The cultivation of fiber flax 

 has become an established industry in 

 eastern Michigan and the Willamette 

 valley in Oregon. In addition, the crop 

 was cultivated last season in western 

 Washington, southeastern Minnesota, 

 southern Wisconsin and western New 

 York. 



SESBANIA SEED FSODUCTION. 



During the last year it is estimated 

 that sixty tons of sesbania seed were 

 produced in the Coachella valley in 

 southern California. In 1904 this plant 

 was growing by the roadside as a weed, 

 but an investigation by the United 

 States Department of Agriculture re- 

 vealed its big possibilities because of 

 its leguminous character. Since that 

 year it has been widely cultivated, a 

 principal use being for planting by 

 onion growers immediately after the 

 harvesting of onions in the late spring, 

 thus enriching the soil preparatory to 

 planting in the fall. 



SUPPLY OF SORGO SEED. 



A considerably larger production of 

 amber, orange and sumac sorgo or 

 "cane" seed than that of last year is 

 indicated in the extensive reports that 

 have been received by the Bureau of 

 Markets of the Department of Agricul- 

 ture. The increase in production is at- 

 tributed to a somewhat larger acreage 

 than was harvested last year for seed, 

 together with a much better yield per 

 acre than last year. It seems to be the 

 general impression that a large crop of 

 sorgo seed is available in the Panhandle 

 of Texas, western Oklahoma and south- 

 western Kansas, which are normally 

 among the heaviest sorgo-seed produc- 

 ing sections in the United States. Aver- 

 age yields per acre of 1,000 to 1,325 

 pounds of the principal kinds of sorgo 

 seed were reported in these sections, 

 which '^toutities are somewhat greater 

 than normal. 



Harvesting and thrashing were de- 

 layed considerably because of inclement 

 weather during November and the first 

 half of December, and also because the 

 growers handled a large crop of wheat 

 before giving attention to the relatively 

 less important sorgo-seed crop. It has 

 been difficult for growers and shippers 

 of sorgo seed to estimate with any great 

 degree of accuracy the quantity of this 

 seed that would be available for plant- 

 ing next season, because thrashing has 

 been so retarded. During the last week 

 of December, however, considerable 

 progreM>^as made in thrashing the crop, 

 because most of the snow had disap- 

 peared and mild weather prevailed. The 

 car shortage, further aggravated by the 

 fuel situation of several weeks ago, has 

 made it impossible to move the wheat 

 from the elevators, which have been 

 filled to their maximum capacity, and to 

 take care of the storage and movement 

 of sorgo seed that has been thrashed. 



Most of the prices received have been 

 more or less nominal and have shown 

 considerable variation, depending upon 

 local and other conditions. In some 

 counties having poor transportation fa- 

 cilities growers are being offered as lit- 

 tle as $1.50 per hundred pounds and in 



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