A - x Twenty-third Annual Report of the ·
· value for Kentucky and to secure, by selection and other-
wise, varieties of special value for the State, have been .
continued. Including thirty plots at Hindman, Knott A
County, two hundred and eighty-three forage plots have
been 'occupied with growths of different sortsf About
ninety different lots of soy beans have been grown, repre-
_ senting about eighty varieties. These will be reduced next
year to fifty varieties by throwing . out those not well
adapted to this part of the State, the valuableones rejected
· being distributed to other parts of Kentucky to determine
their adaptability there. e —
In addition to these plots of forage, we have had in
hand several select strains of red clover and one of timothy ,
_ under observation for improvement with reference to their
vigor, productiveness and durability. Several selected
strains of wheat have also been grown and some crosses
made with reference to their improvement. Two varieties
of corn, represented by several strains, have been kept for -
selection and crossing and some material secured for future
work in breeding this plant.
The inspection of nurseries and the fumigation of
stock, when found infected with San Jose scale, have oc-
cupied about the usual time. l
The seed work has occupied the time of one assistant .`
very closely during the fall and early spring months. Seeds- -
men and farmers about the State, and some residing outside
our limits, have sent in numerous samples for analysis, ‘ '
besides which many samples have been examined, under the
seed inspection law, for adulteration. The value of this
work is attested by the growing demand for it, and also
by the readiness with which both houses of our General —
Assembly, at its last session, passed a bill providing for the
better equipment of the work. Though the bill failed to
become a law,-it is believed that there is no inspection '
. work of more direct importance to the agriculture of the
State than this, and we are still of the opinion that the
l very inadequate law now in force should be amended by
another and better one regulating especially the sale of
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