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The time of harvesting is in the last week of June and the 

 first week of July. It is cut with cradles, shocked, stacked 

 and thrashed with machines. The markets are at Blooming- 

 ton, Gosport, and Harrodsburgh, and a good deal wagoned 

 to Louisville and New Albany. Price this fall, 40 to 45 cents. 



We use no preparations for our seed, and adopt no reme- 

 dies against the fly and wevil. Our greatest, enemy, in the 

 fall, is the dry weather, especially so since our farmers will 

 not plough when the ground is dry. They wait until the 

 rain comes, and when it does, it not unfrequently becomes 

 dry again before they are ready to sow their wheat. The 

 greatest preventive against the evils resulting from dry 

 weather, is 



Gatling's Wheat Drill. — Through the spirited agency 

 of Austin Seward, of Bloomington, who makes everything 

 in iron, from a horse shoe to a steam engine, this drill was 

 brought into our county in August last. Wheat was sown 

 with it about the first of September, when the ground was 

 very dry, and in fields in which, after being thoroughly bro- 

 ken up and harrowed, the wheat was ploughed in with the 

 shovel plough. The wheat put in with the drill came up 

 immediately, and endured the extreme droi^t, which lasted 

 until the 20th of October ; but that which was sown and 

 ploughed in did not come up until after the rain, and then, 

 looking as badly as it could. This favorable result for the 

 drilled wheat is easily accounted for. It is deposited so 

 deep as to be beyond the influence of the hot sun and drying 

 winds, and within that of the moisture arising from the sub- 

 soil. About thirty-five acres of wheat were sown on my 

 farm in the latter part of August, and had the drill been 

 used to put it in, the crop would have been worth not less 

 than one hundred and fifty dollars more than it can possibly 

 be worth. The drill becomes the more important, from the 

 depredations committed on the grain, which does not sprout 

 immediately after being sown. Having sent to Indianapolis 

 for the Pennsylvania, or White Blue-stem, with which I had 



