with chains to drag behind the discs or hoes to cover the grass seed 
lightly. If the grass seed is sown broadcast immediately after 
drilling the grain, it can be covered lightly with a spike-tooth harrow, 
a weeder or a brush drag. 
Description of Eastern States Varieties 
Forward Wheat — Developed by New York Experiment Sta- 
tion. Straw tall and stiff. Yellowish white chaff and beardless. 
Kernels red and of excellent milling quality for bread flour. It is 
resistant to loose smut and quite resistant to lodging even on heavy, 
fertile soils where it yields heavily. Like all beardless wheat it 
should be harvested in the hard dough stage to avoid loss from 
shattering. This seed is treated with an organic mercury dust for 
the control of seed-borne diseases. 
Nittany (Pa. 44) Wheat — Developed by Pennsylvania Experi- 
ment Station. Very tall, vigorous and productive. It yields well 
on light soils and on soils of medium fertility, but has a tendency to 
lodge on heavy, rich soils. The chaff is white and bearded and the 
straw purplish. The kernel is red and of good milling quality. . It 
will stand more handling when ripe without shattering than will 
beardless varieties. This seed is treated with an organic mercury 
dust for the control of seed-borne diseases. 
Thorne Wheat — Developed by Ohio Experiment Station. 
Straw tall and stiff. The head is carried erect with brown beardless 
chaff and red kernels of good milling quality. It is highly resistant 
to both loose and stinking smut, but susceptible to leaf rust and to 
stemrust. A very heavy yielder under a wide variety of conditions. . 
This seed is treated with an organic mercury dust for the control of 
seed-borne diseases. 
Rosen Rye — Produced under certification by Michigan Seed 
Improvement Association from stock seed propagated in isolation 
on South Manitou Island in Lake Michigan. The plant is very 
winter-hardy and vigorous even at low temperatures. It stools 
prolifically. The straw is tall and stiff and strong. The long com- 
pact heads have four complete rows of long, plump, attractive green 
kernels which do not shatter readily during harvest. This is a pure 
strain of the outstanding variety of winter rye. 
Kentucky #1 Barley — A high-yielding, six-row, winter-hardy, 
rough-bearded variety resulting from selection by Kentucky Experi- 
ment Station from Tennessee Winter. Adapted in Eastern States 
territory only to southern Pennsylvania, Maryland and Delaware, 
but where adapted it is a highly desirable source of home-raised feed. 
It is less susceptible to smut and to lodging than many varieties of 
winter barley. These are still two of the most serious troubles af- 
fecting profitable production. 
All Eastern States seed is produced on contract from hot-water 
treated stock seed and is itself treated with an organic mercury dust 
for control of smut and other seed-borne diseases. Even with all 
