Numb'r.

TABLE XVII.-U. S. AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT SEEDS-Continued.

B. 634 Cotton, Welborn's Pet

B. 635 Cotton, Wimberly's Imported
B. 636 Cotton, Ferrell's Prolific

B. 637 Cotton, Truitt's Imported

B. 638 Sorghum, No. 53
B. 639 Sorghum, No. 26

B. 640 Sorghum, No. 57

B. 641 Sorghum, No. 51
B. 642 Sorghum, No. 68

B. 643 Sorghum. Unnamed (Ga)
B. 644 Sorghum, No. 15

B. 645 Sorghum, Unnamed (Texas)
B. 646 Sorghum, White India.
B. 647 Sorgum, E. Tennessee.
B. 648 Sorghum, Whitting's Early.
B. 649 Sorghum, Price's N. Hybrid
B. 650 Sorghum, Swain's Golden
B. 651 Sorg um, Chinese
B. 652 Sorghum, Folger's Early.
B. 653 Sorghum, Ennyama.
B. 654 Sorghum, No. 46
B. 655 Sorghum, Gooseneck
B. 656 Sorghum, Waubansee
B. 657 Sorghum, E. Amber.

B. 658 Sorghum, New Sugar Cane.
B. 659 Sorghum, Planter's Friend..
B. 660 Sorghum, Saccharatum
B. 661 Sorghum, Improved Orange
B. 662 Sorghum, Early Orange.

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5802 Cabbage, Stone Mason Northrup & Co., Minn 5803 Cabbage, Surehead.. Northrup & Co., Minn 5853 Rutabaga D. Moore, Maine

B. 598 Rutabaga, Elephant. Carter & Co., London

DISCUSSION OF TABLE XVIII.-Of above samples, No. 5530 was found to contain five per cent. of broken quartz grains.
These grains showed, under the microscope, a clean, ragged fracture, and were not grains of sand, but evidently the harvest of
some convenient rock pile or mine. This sample was taken from a lot of seed said to have been grown in Davidson County,
N. C. Nos. B. 708 and B. 709 contained nearly two per cent. of dodder-enough to poison a whole field. Nos. 5458 and 5831 gave
only nineteen per cent. and five per cent. respectively of sprouted seeds, though kept in the apparatus for sixty days. Eventu-
ally they molded and were thrown out. It is the custom of botanists to count one third of all the seeds remaining hard
at the end of fifteen days as capable of sprouting, but in the case of these samples, such an allowance would not be correct,
as no sprouts were obtained after the twenty-fifth day. No. 5680 gave no sprouts after the twenty-first day, though kept
in apparatus for forty-five days, with temperature at 85° to 95°, and ample moisture. Eighty-six per cent. were sound at end
of forty-five days.

TABLE XIX.-SEEDS GROWN IN NORTH CAROLINA IN 1889, AND EXHIBITED AT STATE FAIR.