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which he resided, would not do for wheat, becatise of their 

 greater liability to the rust. The preference was given to 

 upland clay soils. But experience had shown that after the 

 bottom lands had been under cultivation ten or twelve years 

 they were better for wheat, and not as liable to rust. On 

 one of these bottom lands he had put in a field of wheat, by 

 ploughing it very deep in August, and sowing from the first 

 to the tenth of September, at the rate of one and a quarter 

 bushels to the acre. The yield averaged 25 bushels per acre. 

 Deep ploughing he regarded as essentially necessary for the 

 successful cultivation of wheat, and last fall he had broken 

 up his ground very deep. The wheat now looks very favor- 

 able. Such ploughing and fallowing in June, must almost al- 

 ways meet with success. 



The kinds now sown are the Alabama, red chaff-bearded, 

 blue stem, old smooth late white, and Mediterranean. The 

 last is a heavy wheat and hard to grind. The smooth white 

 makes whiter flour, but the rust and fly are more fatal to it. 

 The time of cutting is when the wheat is in a pretty thick 

 dough state. 



Mr. Hunter, of Marion, remarked that last year he had 

 tried an experiment as to the best mode of putting in wheat. 

 He drilled in six acres with Gatling's Wheat Drill, six acres 

 he had ploughed in, and six acres he had sown broadcast and 

 harrowed in. The land was the same, and in all respects 

 alike. He thought that wheat might be put in too deeply, 

 and, therefore, he had gaged the drill so as to put it in from 

 two to two and a half inches in depth. When it first came 

 up he supposed it was not thick enough, but on harvesting 

 the whole field, he ascertained that the drilled wheat yielded 

 20 per cent over that which was ploughed in, and 25 per 

 cent over that which was harrowed in. He therefore gave 

 a preference to drilling over all other methods. 



Mediterranean, golden straw, and Pennsylvania Mue stem,, 

 were mostly sown here. The Mediterranean was well 

 adapted to this climate. It was not as liable tO' the rust or 



