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munerate the farmer for bestowing more careful tillage, The 

 climate was said to be unpropitious, and thus the errors of 

 men were charged to nature. But there were other farmers 

 who ploughed deeply, turning the clover crop under, and 

 harrowing well, who raised from 20 to 30 bushels to the acre. 



The old varieties of wheat were not so productive as for- 

 merly, and the Mediterranean was rapidly becoming popular. 

 He concurred in remarks just made, that this kind of wheat 

 ought to be cut before it was out of the dough state. He 

 had a small lot of three acres cut last year, which ripened 

 very irregularly, owing to part of the ground having been 

 manured. Some portions of it was in the milk — very green 

 — but it was all cut down on the same day. The weather 

 was very warm and dry, and he apprehended that the green- 

 est parts would shrink very much; upon examining it howev- 

 er, it was but preceptably shrunk, and finer bread made out 

 of it, he never ate; and of it he was a judge, being a Penn- 

 sylvanian. He had learned from one of the oldest millers in the 

 county, that the best flour and best turn out ever made at his 

 mill, was from this kind of wheat, which had been cut when 

 in the softest dough state. 



Through Mr. Bateham, the editor of the Ohio Cultivator, 

 who had visited the World's Fair, their Agricultural Society 

 had procured thirteen new varieties of wheat, grown in all parts 

 of the world. If wheat, corresponding to the beauty of the 

 specimens, could be raised here, their introduction will be of 

 great benefit. One of these was the Australian, referred to 

 by Mr. Murray, as having been already introduced by the 

 Patent Office. 



Of that Office, he desired to remark, that his thoughts had 

 been directed towards it, because it had agents throughout 

 the whole world, by which it could collect every foreign and 

 domestic grains and seeds and plants, and through its post 

 office arrangements, distribute them to every part of the 

 country. The thirteen varieties of wheat, he had referred to had 

 cost a few of the members of their Society about ten dollars. 



