4 BULLETIN 877, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
ties was ever grown in the Pacific coast area. In 1907 five Aus- 
tralian varieties (C. I. Nos. 2990 to 2994; S. P. I. Nos. 21372 to 
21376) were presented to the Department by Mr. G. Maurice 
McKeown, manager of the Wagga Experiment Farm at Bomen, 
New South Wales. Of these the Silver King, Hudson's Purple 
Straw, and Farmers Friend have been included in plat experiments 
at the Plant Introduction Station at Chico, Calif. The California 
Agricultural Experiment Station obtained the Cumberland (C. I. 
No. 4607), Federation (C. I. No. 4609), Jumbuck (C. I. No. 4608), 
and Sunset (C. I. No. 6253) varieties direct from Australia and 
grew them in experiments at Davis, Calif., as early as 1911, later 
furnishing seed to the United States Department of Agriculture. 
All of these varieties and the others introduced with Early Baart 
are listed with the more recent introductions in Table I and brief 
descriptions given where possible. The yields of all the varieties 
grown in plats are given in Tables II and III. 
RECENT INTRODUCTIONS. 
Realizing the advantages which might be obtained from intro- 
ducing other Australian varieties, the Office of Cereal Investigations 
of the Bureau of Plant Industry, United States Department of Agri- 
culture, decided to obtain all the Australian varieties of wheat in 
order to give them a thorough trial in the Pacific coast area. The 
requests for seed were made through the Office of Foreign Seed and 
Plant Introduction of the Bureau of Plant Industry in 1913, and 
several shipments have been obtained. The Seed and Plant Intro- 
duction numbers recorded here are all given in the inventories of 
the office mentioned, and reference can be made to them if desired. 
In November, 1913, 11 varieties (C. I. Nos. 4116 to 4126; S. P 
I. Nos. 36577 to 36587) were presented to the Department by Mr. 
George Valder, secretary and director of the department of agricul- 
ture at Sydney, New South Wales. In May, 1914, 11 varieties 
(C. I. Nos. 4164 to 4174; S. P. I. Nos. 38343 to 38353) were obtained 
from Mr. E. A. Cook, of Perth, West Australia. A second shipment 
containing 24 varieties (C. I. Nos. 4718 to 4741; S. P. I. Nos. 41064 
to 41087) was obtained from Mr. Valder in August, 1915. In March, 
1916, Mr. A. E. V. Richardson, agricultural superintendent of the 
department of agriculture at Melbourne, Victoria, presented the 
Department with seed of 35 varieties (C. I. Nos. 4979 to 5013; S. 
P. I. Nos. 42102 to 42136). At the same time a third ship- 
ment was received from Mr. Valder, containing 5 varieties (C. I. 
Nos. 5019 to 5023; S. P. I. Nos. 42205 to 42209) grown at the Cowra 
Experiment Farm, New South Wales. 
In 1915 exhibits of wheat varieties were made by New Zealand and 
Australia at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition at San 
