1916 
Notes on the Behavior of Previous Introductions. 
A recent department circular (No. 280, August,. 1923) by J. Allen 
Clark, of the Office of Cereal Investigations, and L. R. Waldron, of 
the North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station, is entitled "Kota 
Wheat." This is a wheat (Triticum aestivum I.) of the hard spring class, and 
is a selection from a variety originally introduced from Belachov, Tam- 
hof Government, Russia, in 1903, by Prof. H. L. Bolley. There were 25 
lots of wheat included in this shipment, to which were assigned S. P. 
I. Nos. 10194 to 10218. Some of these were grown at the North Dakota 
Agricultural Experiment Station, near Fargo, by Professor Bolley. From 
one of these, S. P. I. No. 10214, a promising selection was made in 
1918, to which the name "Kota" was applied. 
The outstanding features of this wheat are summarized in the bul- 
letin as follows: 
"Kota is resistant to the principal forms of black stem rust 
which occur in the hard red spring wheat region. It is a bearded wheat 
which ripens about as early as Marquis. It is fairly resistant to 
drought and outyields Marquis in North Dakota, haying averaged nearly 
3 bushels more during the past 3 to 5 years. 
"In milling and baking experiments conducted independently by the 
United States Department of Agriculture and the North Dakota Agricul- 
tural Experiment Station, Kota wheat has shown results nearly equal to 
those obtained with Marquis. 
It is estimated that about 6,000 acres of Kota wheat were grown in 
1922. 
"Kota is best adapted to the district where durum wheat is ex- 
tensively grown and could replace much of the durum wheat now grown in 
eastern North Dakota and South Dakota with profit to both the hard red 
spring and the durum wheat industries. - 
"This new variety is recommended for North Dakota and adjacent 
portions of neighboring States." 
A department bulletin (No. 1174) has just been published on the 
Hungarian vetch (Vieia pannoniea,~ S. P. I. No. 17027) by Roland McKee, 
Office of Forage^Crop Investigations, Bureau of Plant Industry. Mr. 
McKee has furnished the- following note concerning this vetch: 
"Hungarian vetch was first introduced into the United States in 
1905 under S. P. I. No. 17027. It is proving especially valuable in 
the Pacific Coast States and about 1,000,000 pounds of seed were pro- 
duced in western Oregon in 1923. It is intermediate between vicia sativa 
and V. villosa in winter hardiness, and under ordinary conditions will 
stand about 10° F. above zero. In the southern half of the United 
States and in the Pacific Coast area it should be fall sown. One of 
the most striking features of this vetch is its ability to grow on 
