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Bulletin 12 i. 
product of a single plant and had been cleaned, labeled and saved 
separately^ and the original plant from which it came has been 
marked. 
PART OF REPORT FROM ARKANSAS VALLEY FIELD AGENT 
Plant 1.—Yield of seed, 66 grams; fine stems, thick set with leaves; 
desirable plant for hay; seed irregular in ripening; bloom, green pods and 
ripe seed on the plant at the same time. 
Plant 2.—Yield of seed, 45 grams; many fine stems; very little rust 
pr disease on the leaves; seed fairly uniform in ripening; a desirable type 
for hay. 
Plant 3.—Yield, 53 grams; many short, thick stems; seed plump and 
uniform in ripening; style of stems desirable for supporting seed, but not 
promising' for hay. 
Plant 4.—Yield, 24 grams; few long, coarse stems; rust common on 
leaves; undesirable type. 
Plant 5.—^Yield, 24 grams; few long stems; seed fairly uniform in 
ripening, but not desirable for hay. 
Plant 6.—Yield, 37 grams; stems long and coarse; seed irregular in 
ripening; undesirable type. 
Plant 7.—Yield, 33 grams; long, coarse stems; seed irregular in ripen¬ 
ing; undesirable type. 
Plant 8.—Yield, 34 grams; seed head short and small; ripening uni¬ 
form; not desirable for hay. 
Plant 9.—Yield, 40 grams; stems fine; seed very uniform in ripening; 
a desirable type. 
Plant 10.—Yield, 25 grams; a small plant; seed ripened uniformly, 
with no second growth of stems. 
Plant 11.—Yield, 30 grams; stems and leaves free from rust or disease; 
seed uniform in ripening; a desirable type. 
Plant 12.—Yield, 54 grams; fine, large plant; large clusters of bloom; 
large, uniform seed pods; ripening uniformly; a very desirable plant. 
Plant 13.—Yield, 43 grams; fine stems; no rust; uniformly ripe; a 
desirable type. 
Plant 14.—Yield, 41 grams; fine stems; small heads of seed; not reg¬ 
ular in ripening. 
Plant 15.—Yield, 44 grams; fine stems; no rust on leaves; a desir¬ 
able type. 
Plant 16.—Yield, 55 grams; many fine stems; leaves well retained; 
seed ripening fairly uniform, while the stems still remained green; very 
desirable type. 
Plant 17.—Yield, 49 grams; seed from a native stool that grew on 
dry land with no irrigation; had remarkably large flowers that set uniform, 
with seed that ripened uniformly and was almost perfect in color and plump¬ 
ness; stems desirable for hay; seed pods on adjacent plants under the same 
conditions blasted and failed to make seed. 
The seed of some of the above plants was selected not for their 
desirable traits, but to test their future behavior and their reproducing 
power, and to determine the most potent tendency of the several 
types. 
The average of those that were good seed yielders would 
amount to over one and a half ounces of clean seed to the plant; this 
computed for a theoretical yield to the acre, allowing four square 
feet to the plant, would give one thousand pounds per acre—a yield 
that does not seem impossible, and one that would be profitable even 
on highly valued land. 
The following, Plate 4, is a view of two adjacent plants as they 
stood in the nursery row; the one to the left is plant No. 12 . 
The color contrast of the seed pods was not enough to show 
