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 M. M. Martin, Comanche, Tex.: 



Colorado Grass has been introduced here od a small scale from the Colorado River. 

 It will make both a spring and fall crop, if it is seasonable. Like Crab grass, when 

 land is once set with it, it is there to stay, but other crops can be successfully grown 

 on the same land. I believe it would make a good fertilizer if it was chained down 

 and turned under. It will grow wherever Crab grass will grow, and it outsuckers 

 anything I ever saw, and every sucker has a head. I have been watching grasses for 

 several years, and I like it the best of any that I have seen yet. 



S. B. Wallis, Wallisville, Southeastern Texas: 



Panicum Texanum is grown here from seed brought from Western Texas, and does 

 splendidly on cultivated ground, standing drought remarkably well, and making a 

 heavy crop of first-rate hay, besides the seed, which are very valuable for poultry feed. 

 It is considered the most valuable summer grass to grow on cultivated ground. 



Specimens of this grass fully 10 feet in length have been received at the Depart- 

 ment from Mr. Wallis. 



Prof. J. M. McBryde, Columbia, S. C. : 



A most promising grass, which flourished here the past season when Timothy, Or- 

 chard Grass, and Kentucky Blue grass alongside of it, were destroyed by drought. 



F. M. Pierce, Farmington, K". Mex. : 



It does well on all dry lands along streams above the first bottoms. 



Teosinte, Euchlcena luxurians. 



Seeds of this semi-tropical forage plant were distributed by the De- 

 partment in the spring of 1886 and again in 1887. The plant consider- 

 ably resembles Indian corn, but is more slender, suckers far more, and 

 produces its seeds a few together in small tufts of husks instead of in 

 ears. Each seed is inclosed by the peculiar hardened outer glumes, 

 which would probably make it more difficult to digest than corn. The 

 plant has not yet been extensively tried, owing to the difficulty of ob- 

 taining seed, which has had to be imported, making it expensive and 

 liable to be of poor quality, Experience has shown, however, that it 

 will ripen in Southern Florida, and in a few other favorable locations in 

 the United States. Professor Phares of Mississippi believes, from in- 

 stances that have come under his notice, that the seed may be success- 

 fully grown in some locations in the southern portion of that State, and 

 over a considerable part of Southeastern Louisiana, and that in all parts 

 of the Gulf States, even where it does not mature, it is destined to be- 

 come a most valuable forage plant. It is probable that by selection and 

 continued trial it may be made to ripen where it now does not. 



J. C. Keal, Archer, Northern Florida : 



Often tried, and with much fertilizer makes a tremendous growth, giving a large 

 amount of good forage, easily dried and available. The seeds I received from the De- 

 partment of Agriculture last year were deficient in vitality and but few grew, but 

 they showed that with good seed and care the Teosinte would be a valuable forage 

 plant. It will not ripen seed. I have tried to ripen it for ten years and failed. 



J. G. Knapp, Limona, Southern Florida: 



Great difficulty has been exprienced in obtaining live seed of this most valuable fod- 

 der plant, seed obtained from seedsmen, having been imported from Honduras, be- 



