﻿APRIL 
  1 
  TO 
  JUNE 
  30, 
  1910. 
  35 
  

  

  27737 
  and 
  27738. 
  Medicago 
  sativa 
  L. 
  Alfalfa. 
  

  

  Plants 
  growing 
  at 
  Arlington 
  Experimental 
  Farm, 
  Va. 
  Numbered 
  spring 
  of 
  1910. 
  

  

  "Two 
  of 
  four 
  surviving 
  plants 
  from 
  an 
  alfalfa 
  field 
  near 
  Weskan, 
  Kans., 
  20 
  years 
  

  

  old, 
  the 
  rest 
  having 
  succumbed 
  to 
  the 
  extreme 
  drought 
  and 
  encroachment 
  of 
  buffalo 
  

  

  grass. 
  These 
  plants 
  were 
  obtained 
  by 
  me 
  under 
  Agrost. 
  No. 
  42 
  and 
  43, 
  summer 
  of 
  

  

  1907." 
  (J. 
  M. 
  Westgate.) 
  

  

  27739 
  to 
  27754. 
  Medicago 
  falcata 
  ? 
  x 
  sativa 
  $ 
  . 
  Alfalfa. 
  

  

  Hybrids 
  between 
  Medicago 
  falcata 
  and 
  various 
  strains 
  and 
  varieties 
  of 
  Medicago 
  

   sativa. 
  Parents 
  selected 
  and 
  hybrids 
  made 
  by 
  Messrs. 
  J. 
  M. 
  Westgate 
  and 
  

   W. 
  J. 
  Morse 
  at 
  the 
  Arlington 
  Experimental 
  Farm 
  during 
  the 
  summer 
  of 
  1908. 
  

   Numbered 
  spring 
  of 
  1910. 
  

  

  27739. 
  Agrost. 
  No. 
  2111. 
  (Medkago 
  falcata 
  [S. 
  P. 
  I. 
  No. 
  20718] 
  crossed 
  

   with 
  Peruvian 
  alfalfa 
  [Agrost. 
  No. 
  2002] 
  [S. 
  P. 
  I. 
  No. 
  14972?].) 
  First 
  plant 
  

   in 
  row. 
  

  

  27740. 
  Agrost. 
  No. 
  2111. 
  Second 
  plant 
  in 
  row. 
  

  

  27741. 
  Agrost. 
  No. 
  2111. 
  Third 
  plant 
  in 
  row. 
  

  

  27742. 
  Agrost. 
  No. 
  2112. 
  ( 
  Medicago 
  falcata 
  [Agrost. 
  No. 
  2072] 
  [S. 
  P. 
  I. 
  No. 
  

   19534] 
  crossed 
  with 
  Medicago 
  sativa 
  [Agrost. 
  No. 
  18, 
  a 
  heavily 
  seeded 
  upright 
  

   selection].) 
  First 
  plant 
  in 
  row. 
  

  

  27743. 
  Agrost. 
  No. 
  2113. 
  (Same 
  parent 
  plants 
  as 
  Agrost. 
  No. 
  2112.) 
  First 
  

   plant 
  in 
  row. 
  

  

  27744. 
  Agrost. 
  No. 
  2160. 
  ( 
  Medicago 
  falcata 
  [S. 
  P. 
  I. 
  No. 
  20718] 
  crossed 
  with 
  

   Medicago 
  sativa 
  [S. 
  P. 
  I. 
  No. 
  20775]). 
  First 
  plant 
  in 
  row. 
  

  

  27745. 
  Agrost. 
  No. 
  2161. 
  (Same 
  parent 
  plants 
  as 
  Agrost. 
  No. 
  2160.) 
  First 
  

   plant 
  in 
  row. 
  

  

  27746. 
  Agrost. 
  No. 
  2161. 
  Second 
  plant 
  in 
  row. 
  

  

  27747. 
  Agrost. 
  No. 
  2112. 
  Second 
  plant 
  in 
  row. 
  

  

  27748. 
  Agrost. 
  No. 
  2112. 
  Third 
  plant 
  in 
  row. 
  

  

  27749. 
  Agrost. 
  No. 
  2112. 
  Fourth 
  plant 
  in 
  row. 
  

  

  27750. 
  Agrost. 
  No. 
  2112. 
  Fifth 
  plant 
  in 
  row. 
  

  

  27751. 
  Agrost. 
  No. 
  2113. 
  Second 
  plant 
  m 
  row. 
  

  

  27752. 
  Agrost. 
  No. 
  2113. 
  Third 
  plant 
  in 
  row. 
  

  

  27753. 
  Agrost. 
  No. 
  2113. 
  Fourth 
  plant 
  in 
  row. 
  

  

  27754. 
  Agrost. 
  No. 
  2113. 
  Fifth 
  plant 
  in 
  row. 
  

  

  27764. 
  Andropogon 
  sorghum 
  (L.) 
  Brot. 
  Sorgo. 
  

  

  From 
  Scott 
  City, 
  Kans. 
  Purchased 
  from 
  Mr. 
  J. 
  K. 
  Freed. 
  Received 
  April, 
  1910. 
  

  

  "Mr. 
  Freed 
  states 
  that 
  he 
  has 
  grown 
  this 
  variety 
  for 
  three 
  or 
  four 
  years, 
  but 
  its 
  origin 
  is 
  

   unknown 
  to 
  him. 
  He 
  finds 
  it 
  ten 
  days 
  earlier 
  than 
  ordinary 
  Amber 
  sorgo, 
  but 
  he 
  plants 
  

   a 
  little 
  more 
  seed 
  to 
  the 
  acre. 
  In 
  seed 
  yield 
  it 
  outyields 
  ordinary 
  Amber 
  fully 
  50 
  per 
  

   cent. 
  The 
  following 
  description 
  is 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Carleton 
  R. 
  Ball: 
  

  

  " 
  'Stalk 
  slender, 
  5£ 
  to 
  6 
  feet 
  tall; 
  butts 
  one-half 
  inch 
  to 
  1 
  inch 
  in 
  diameter; 
  inter- 
  

   nodes 
  long 
  and 
  slender; 
  leaves 
  8 
  to 
  10; 
  panicles 
  well 
  exserted, 
  pyramidal 
  to 
  open 
  

   oblong 
  — 
  the 
  pyramidal 
  rather 
  sparse, 
  the 
  oblong 
  more 
  dense; 
  rachis 
  continuous; 
  

   spikelets 
  obovate; 
  glumes 
  straw 
  colored, 
  smooth 
  to 
  hairy; 
  seeds 
  rather 
  obovate, 
  pure 
  

   white.' 
  

  

  "Mr. 
  Ball 
  further 
  suggests 
  that 
  this 
  may 
  be 
  identical 
  with 
  the 
  variety 
  cultivated 
  

   many 
  years 
  ago 
  under 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  ' 
  White 
  Seeded 
  or 
  White 
  India.'" 
  (C. 
  V. 
  Piper.) 
  

   20$ 
  

  

  