. Annual report. 1st-12th, 1867-1878. Geology. 276 GEOLOGICAL SUEVEY OF THE TEREITOEIES. tried in tLese gardens germinated well, and the plants, with, rude and imperfect culture, grew encouragingly. The results were satisfactory, although the destruction by insects was greatly beyond anticipation. Irish potatoes, for example, made vigorous growth, yet about the time of blooming were destroyed by a species of blister-beetle, [Epicauta cor- ijfnff, Eiley,) which proved to be a more formidable enemy than even the Colorado potato-bug. Spring-wheat matured merchantable grain at Oarlyle. In the summ
. Annual report. 1st-12th, 1867-1878. Geology. 276 GEOLOGICAL SUEVEY OF THE TEREITOEIES. tried in tLese gardens germinated well, and the plants, with, rude and imperfect culture, grew encouragingly. The results were satisfactory, although the destruction by insects was greatly beyond anticipation. Irish potatoes, for example, made vigorous growth, yet about the time of blooming were destroyed by a species of blister-beetle, [Epicauta cor- ijfnff, Eiley,) which proved to be a more formidable enemy than even the Colorado potato-bug. Spring-wheat matured merchantable grain at Oarlyle. 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 City and above the level of the sea as foUows : stations. Wilson, (now Boslaud) Ellis Pond Creek. Feet. 1,586 2,019 3,175 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. V\^heat, rye, and barley were sown at each of these stations in the fall of 1870; at Pond Creek, September 28 ; at Ellis, October 20 5 and at Wilson, November 11. At Pond Creek the rye grew finely and matured a fair crop; the wheat and barley were partially winter-killed, but the surviving iilants 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. At 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, rye, and barley sown ^tTovember 11, 1870, [at Wilson,] equal to if not iDeyond the average crop of any part of the ; And of Pond Creek they say: "T
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