SUDAN QUA 7 in Columbia Basin conditions. It- wide adaptability to the climatic conditions of the United States easl of the Rock] Mountains ia note worthy. While the original stock Bhowed little variability, th< gi i has crossed very readily \\ it li sorghums, so thai it is possible i" i various hybrids differing especially in leafiness and date of maturity.

Presumably all of the variants are due t" crossing, bul no isolated areas of the original seed have yel I »« * • 1 1 grown t<> determine whether other factors are operal ive.

In the humid regions the results are no! so uniformly satisfactory, ami the future of the grass east of the LOOth meridian can nol be forecasted with confidence until much further evidence is available.

\ fiw packages of seed were also senl in L911 and L912to farmers for practical trials. The reports of several of these trials are cited as indicative of the value of the grass, and some of them are valuable uggesting critical experiments.

BESULTS OF TESTS AT CHTLLICOTHE.

Sudan grass was Bret tested ;it Chillicothe, Tex., in L909, ;i single row being grown and all the seed saved. In L910 this seed was planted in 30-inch rowon seven-fifteenths of an acre of land. Though the season was exceedingly dry it grew to a height of I t" I' feet. A small portion of the plat, one-fifteenth of an acre, was cut fi r hay and yielded two cuttings. From the remainder, l".l pounds of -red were secured in two pickings, which is at the rate of : > : '--"> pounds per acre.

In 1911, plats wen- planted June I on newly broken sod land from which two cuttings of hay were secured, each larger than the one cutting of German millet grown alongside. The total rainfall from April 1 to November 1 was 1 I inches. The drought conditions of the season were such that both milo and kafir produced only about onefourth of a normal grain yield.

During the 9eason of 1912 more detailed results were secured. Pour cuttings of hay were obtained from a one-tenth acre plat, drilled on April 26 at the rate of :'. peek- of seed per acre. The dale and amount of each cutting are as follow-: Pound* June 22 23 I July 17 181 Au-'iiM 20 l I 180 To