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Atlantic to the Pacific. Besides the New England States, it is reported 

 from northern New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, southern Michi- 

 gan, Wisconsin, and from one point each in northern Missouri, central 

 Kansas, North Dakota, South Dakota, Colorado, and Idaho. It grows 

 in California near the coast at a number of poiuts in the Upper Austral 

 zone and at one i^oint in the Transition; at four points in the Transi- 

 tion in Oregon and one point in Colorado. In Minnesota it is rejiorted 

 entirely from the Transition, while in Utah reports are from both the 

 Upper Austral and Transition zones. The Ontario reports are from 

 the Upper Austral. 



(4) Longfellow. — This variety has been known in New England for 

 nearly sixty years, and is a favorite, being generally cultivated all over 

 that section. It is also reported maturing seed in northern Colorado, 

 Utah, Idaho, North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and 

 northern New Jersey. These localities are nearly all in the Transi- 

 tion zone, except in the Connecticut Yalley, and possibly one point in 

 Venango County, Pa., which are in the Upper Austral. Reports from 

 Manitoba, Nova Scotia, and British Columbia state that it is only 

 grown for green fodder. Eeports from Ontario, Quebec, and New 

 Brunswick give yields of grain in the Transition zone ranging from 

 30 to 90 bushels per acre. Generally speaking, it is a variety of the 

 Transition zone, and also of the edge of the Upper Austral. 



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(5) Bloody Butcher. — Forty-five persons report this variety from 

 thirteen States and Territories, mainly in the central West, and with 

 slight exception, entirely in the Ujiper Austral. One rejDort from Ash- 

 tabula County, Ohio, places it in the Transition zone, while eight per- 

 sons in Oklahoma report it a standard variety in the Lower Austral, 

 along the border of the Upper Austral. The reports, however, from 

 Oklahoma, indicate unprofitable culture. Bloody Butcher is clearly an 

 Upper Austral variety grown mainly in Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, 

 and Nebraska. 



(6) Golden Dent. — Thirty-three persons report this variety from six- 

 teen States. It is reported mostly from the Lower Austral zone in 

 Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, 

 North Carolina, and South Carolina. It is also reported from the 

 Upper Austral in Arkansas, Illinois, North Carolina, South Carolina, 

 Ohio, Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. One 

 New Jersey correspondent writes that it is uncertain in ripening in 

 Morris County. Golden Dent is evidently well suited to the Lower 

 Austral zone, though it may do well in the Upper Austral if not carried 

 too far toward the Transition. 



(7) Iliclcory King. — Sixty-one persons report this variety grown in 

 twenty-two States and Territories, in the main, in the lower part of the 



