This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 Excerpt: ... Tex., Modesto, Cal., and North Platte, Nebr., in 1907. Plants 1.5 to 2.4 meters (5 to 8 feet) in height, rather stout, 1.2 to 2.5 cm. Pig. 10.--Field of Manchu Brown kaoliang (G. I. No. 171, S.P.I. No. 18518), 5 feet tall, Amarillo, Tex., August 20,1908. (Photographed by C. R. Ball.) (0.5 to 1 inch) in butt diameter, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 Excerpt: ... Tex., Modesto, Cal., and North Platte, Nebr., in 1907. Plants 1.5 to 2.4 meters (5 to 8 feet) in height, rather stout, 1.2 to 2.5 cm. Pig. 10.--Field of Manchu Brown kaoliang (G. I. No. 171, S.P.I. No. 18518), 5 feet tall, Amarillo, Tex., August 20,1908. (Photographed by C. R. Ball.) (0.5 to 1 inch) in butt diameter, mostly without suckers; leaves 8 to 11; panicles oval or ovate, rather heavy, 2 to 2.7 dm. (8 to 11 inches) in length, basal branches 1 to 1.5 (4 to 6 inches') long; spikelets broadly oval, 5 to 6 mm. long; glumes 3 to 4 mm. long, buff, shading strongly to orange buff and orange vermilion; seeds obovate oval, 4 to 5 mm. long by 3 to 3.5 mm. wide, white, one-third exserted. A medium-tall variety, medium early to medium late in maturity, ripening in 105 to 115 days. One early head was noted as having deciduous spikelets, an unusual character which belongs to the wild species Andropogon halepensis Brot. 253 18611 (G. 1. No. 191). Manchu Broicn. Source same as for 18610. 1154. a.) A light-brown colored varietv of sorghum grown on rather alkaline land, i Meyer.) Grown in varietal test at Amarillo and Chillicothe. Tex., Modesto, Cal., and North Platte, Nebr., in 1907. Plants 1.5 to 2.1 meters 5 to 7 feet) in height, slender to stout; panicle small, oval, rather compact, 1.5 to 2.2 dm. (6 to 9 inches) in length, the lower branches 5 to 10 cm. (2 to 4 inches) long, the rachis five-sixths as long as the panicle; spikelets 4 to 5.5 mm. long; glumes black, shining; seeds obovate to broadly obovate oval, 3.5 to 5 mm. long by 3 to 4 mm. wide, burnt sienna to cinnamon rufous to buff. A low to medium variety with small panicles, ripening in 100 to 105 days. 18612 (G. I. No. 192). Manchu Broum. Source the same as for No. 18610. (155. a.) A dark-brown colored ...
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