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rity is reached. Late in the season the culins became badly affected 
with rust. Growth weak and decumbent. No smut. 
No. 8. Sibley’s Imperial. Stools very freely. Foliage abundant 
and excellent. Late in the season the culms became badly affected 
with rust, as in No. 7, becoming weak and decumbent. Free from 
smut. 
No. 9. Black Hulless. Stools sparingly. Not troubled - with 
smut, and foliage generally free from rust. Culms weaker and 
more decumbent than any other variety. 
No. 10. Nepaul. Stools well and produces a large amount of ex- 
cellent foliage, which would serve as a very desirable fodder. Quite 
free from disease. Does not lodge, even to cutting. 
Noress on Oars. 
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No. 1. Black Champion (R. N. Y.). Foliage very profuse, such 
as would make superior fodder. Not affected with smut. Tallest 
plant three feet eight inches. Longest panicle twelve inches. Straw 
weak, and not bright. 
No. 2. Alexander’s No. 2. Foliage very healthy and vigorous, 
being but slightly affected with rust. Stools plentifully. Tallest 
plant three feet eleven inches. Longest panicle twelve inches. 
Straw weak. 
No. 3. Challenge. Foliage fairly abundant. Stools plentifully. 
Rusted very badly late in the season. Smutted badly. Awns hold 
tenaciously to the flowering glumes. Tallest plant four feet. Long- 
est panicle thirteen inches. Partially lodged at cutting. 
No. 4. Golden. Stools very well. Foliagé abundant, but rusted 
rather badly. Many heads smutted. Erect to harvesting. 
No. 5. Probsteier (Gregory). Stools evenly and Prirly well, 
Tallest plant four feet. Longest panicle eleven and one-half inches. 
Straw weak, and lodged at cutting. Foliage abundant and rusty. 
Panicles smutty. 
No. 6. Seizure (Sibley). Stools bountifully, producing an abun- 
dance of foliage; rusted badly. Panicles smutted quite extensively. 
A variety quite susceptible to disease. Tallest plant four feet and 
one-half inch. Longest panicie eleven inches. Panicles do not 
mature evenly. Lodged to some extent at cutting. 
No. 7. Washington. Stools excellently, and produces an abun- 
dance of foliage which is rather subject to rust. Smutted slightly. 
Tallest plant four feet one inch. Longest panicle twelve and one- 
half inches. Does not mature evenly. Straw weak and partially 
lodged at cutting. . 
No. 8. White Champion. Foliage abundant and usually healthy. 
Panicles suffered some from smut. Lodged at cutting, but not badly. 
Tallest plant four feet two inches. Longest panicle twelve inches. 
Thrashes in good form. 
No. 9. White Eureka, (Sibley). Stools fairly well. Produces 
considerable foliage, which is inclined to rust badly, especially on 
