rity is reached. Late in the season the culms 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 stnut, 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 excellent foliage, which would serve as a very desirable fodder. Quite free from disease. Does not lodge, even to cutting.

NOTES ON OATS.

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. Longest panicle thirteen inches. Partially lodged at cutting. No. 4. Golden. Stools very well. Foliage abundant, but rusted rather badly. Many heads smutted. Erect to harvesting.

No. 5. Probsteier (Gregory). Stools evenly and fairly 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 abundance of foliage; rusted badly. Panicles smutted quite extensively. A variety quite susceptible to disease. Tallest plant four feet and one-half inch. Longest panicle eleven inches. Panicles do not

mature evenly. Lodged to some extent at cutting.

No. 7. Washington. Stools excellently, and produces an abundance of foliage which is rather subject to rust. Smutted slightly. Tallest plant four feet one inch. Longest panicle twelve and onehalf 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

the older leaves. Panicles subject to smut. Slightly lodged at cutting. Tallest plant four feet two and one-half inches. Longest panicle eleven inches. Thrashes in good form.

No. 10. White Probsteier. Does not stool extremely well, but produces a fair amount of foliage, which is as a rule healthy. Smutted slightly. Lodged to a small extent at cutting. Tallest plant three feet eleven inches. Longest panicle twelve and one-half inches. Thrashes in good form.

No. 11. White Schoenen. Does not stool very well. Foliage abundant and healthy, showing but little rust. Inflicted with smut. Tallest plant three feet eleven inches. Longest panicle eleven inches. No. 12. Yellow or Golden Prize. Foliage not very vigorous or adundant. Does not stool plentifully. Was not troubled much by either rust or smut. Tallest plant three feet nine inches. Longest panicle nine inches. Slightly lodged at cutting. Thrashes in good form.

No. 13. Board of Trade. Stools very well. Was disposed to rust and smut badly. Rusted more than almost any other variety. Tallest plant four feet two inches. Longest panicle eleven inches. Partially lodged at cutting.

No 14. New Australian. Stools abundantly. Leaves rusty, and panicles smutted slightly. Straw weak and badly lodged at cutting. Tallest plant four feet two and one-half inches. Longest panicle thirteen inches.

No. 15. White Australian. Stools well. Foliage fairly abundant, and rusted very badly. This variety has smutted more than any other at the Station. Straw weak, and badly lodged at cutting. Tallest plant four feet six inches. Longest panicle fourteen inches.

No. 16. Black Tartarian (Sibley). The first "side-head" to be harvested. Did not smut, and was not badly troubled with rust. Tallest plant three feet nine inches. Longest panicle twelve inches. Erect at cutting.

No. 17. Mold's Ennobled. Stools abundantly. No smut, and a minumum amount of rust. At cutting period, straw weak. Tallest plant three feet four inches.

No. 18. American Triumph (Sibley). Stools abundantly, and but few panicles produced from a stool. Smutted some; rusted slightly. Awns cling tenaciously to flowering glumes. Straw erect at cutting. Tallest plant four feet one inch.

No. 19. White Novelty (Sibley). Foliage very abundant, and slightly affected with rust. Stools well. Smutted slightly. Straw fairly stout at cutting. Tallest plant four feet two and one-half inches. Longest panicle thirteen inches. Thrashes in good form.

No. 20. White Russian (Gregory). Stools fairly well, and produces an abundance of foliage. Rusted slightly, and smutted but a little. Tallest plant four feet two inches. Longest panicle thirteen inches. Straw erect and stout at cutting. Thrashes in good form. No. 21. White Zealand (Gregory). Stools abundantly, and produces a profusion of healthy foliage. Rusted and smutted slightly.

Straw unusually stout and erect at cutting, and but little lodged. Tallest plant four feet one and one-half inch. Thrashes in good

form.

No. 22. Chinese Hulless (Gregory). Stools poorly, and rusted badly. Smutted slightly. Partially lodged at cutting. Tallest plant three feet ten inches. Longest panicle ten inches. In handling in the field, many grains fell from the spikelets.

No. 23. Pringle's Excelsior Hulless (Thorburn). Stools well. Foliage fair, but rusty to some extent. No smut. Lodges badly. In thrashing, while many berries are detached from the flowering glumes in a naked condition, many others retain the glumes, thus leaving the grain after thrashing in a very undesirable condition. This remark also applies to No. 22.