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deposited in furrows or drills, the intermediate spaces were 

 small ridges, which, by the action of the frost during the 

 winter, were gradually leveled — the ground falling over into 

 the furrows, thus covering the roots of the wheat still deeper. 

 These advantages must introduce the wheat drill to the no- 

 tice of every farmer who annually cultivated 20 or 40 acres 

 of wheat. The saving and increase production would pay 

 for the drill in one or two seasons to all such farmers. 



The different kinds of wheat cultivated in Elkhart county, 

 were those usually cultivated in the north. But the best va- 

 rieties rapidly deteriorate, and hence the interest taking in 

 the introduction of new kinds. Every two or three years, 

 the seed must be changed on the farm, the law of nature, in 

 this respect, seemingly being the same as in the animal king- 

 dom. This tendency to deterioration was readily seen in 

 what was called with them, the club wheat. When first in- 

 troduced, it had three rows of grains on each side of the 

 stalk, making six in all. But after a few years cultivation it 

 decreased to two rows on each side. This wheat was brought 

 from Ohio, and stood the winters well, but was subject to be 

 attacked by the fly. He did not doubt but that it would 

 prove a valuable variety in the middle and southern portions 

 of Indiana, if introduced there. The Mediterranean was in 

 a great measure abandoned in his county, because it was lia- 

 ble to be killed by the late spring frosts in May, and some- 

 times in June, and being a red dark wheat, it was, on that 

 account, docked by the millers from two to five cents a bush- 

 el. The Hutchinson wheat had been lately introduced from 

 New York. It was probably the same as the New York 

 white flint, for here we are accustomed to give the name ol 

 the person to the wheat introduced by him. This wheat, 

 like the club wheat, now contains six rows and is very pro- 

 ductive. We also cultivate the White Blue stem, originally 

 introduced by the Patent Office into New York. It was sent 

 to the Secretary of the New York Agricultural Society, by 

 whom it was tested, and was so highly esteemed that it soon 



