. Annual report. 1st-12th, 1867-1878. Geology. 276 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF THE TEERITOEIES. tried in these gardens germinated well, and tlie plants, with rude and imperfect culture, grew encouragingly. The results were satisfactory, although the destruction by insects was greatly beyond anticipation. Irish x^otatoes, for examj)le, made vigorous growth, yet about the time of blooming were destroj'ed by a species of blister-beetle, (Epkauta cor- Tina, Eiley,) which proved to be a more formidable enemy than even the Colorado potato-bug. Spring-wheat matured merchantable grain at Carlyle. In the summ
. Annual report. 1st-12th, 1867-1878. Geology. 276 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF THE TEERITOEIES. tried in these gardens germinated well, and tlie plants, with rude and imperfect culture, grew encouragingly. The results were satisfactory, although the destruction by insects was greatly beyond anticipation. Irish x^otatoes, for examj)le, made vigorous growth, yet about the time of blooming were destroj'ed by a species of blister-beetle, (Epkauta cor- Tina, Eiley,) which proved to be a more formidable enemy than even the Colorado potato-bug. Spring-wheat matured merchantable grain at Carlyle. In the summer and fall of 1870 a few acres were broken at each of the three following stations, on the Kansas Pacific Eailway, distant from Kansas Citv and above the level of the sea as follows: stations. ^^^^ ^°™ ^^^^'''^ Above sea- " level. Feet. Wilson, (now Bosland) 1 239 1, 586 Ellis I 302 2,019 Pond Creek 422 These places are in the western half of the State of Kansas. All are in the present buffalo range : all are in the region of short grasses; all are in the open, treeless plains, beyond the limits heretofore assigned to settlements. Wheat, rve, and barley were sown at each of these stations in the fall of 1870"; at Pond Creek, September 28; at Ellis, October 20; and at Wilson, ^N^ovember 11. At Pond Creek the rye grew finely and matured a fair crop ; the wheat and barley were partially winter-killed, but the surviving plants made heads of the usual length, well filled with grain of good size and quality. At Ellis the promise of all the grains was excellent until the 1st of June, when a hail-storm of unusual severity prostrated every stem. xlT Wilson the grains all did well. The presi- dent and the secretary of the Missouri State board of agriculture (who, in company with members of the board, visited the stations in June) say in their report: " We found wheat, i\ye, and bailey sown xTovember 11, 1870, [at Wilson,] equal to if not beyond the average crop o
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