g2 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



'Winter wheat has not been cultivated, except by some three or four 

 individuals, and they, generally, with poor success. I have sown it 

 three or four years in succession ; but I know of no other person who 

 has tried it more than two successive years. From my limited expe- 

 rience, I think, with good manuring and early sowing, say the last of 

 August, it would not fail oftener than grass seed." 



FROM JAMES M. SHAW. 



" The cultivation of wheat in Waterford has increased. This grain 

 has done well on the high ridges and elevated parts of the town ; but 

 in the valleys and lowlan.ls, it frequently fails in consequence of the 

 rust. Some of the principal hindrances to raising wheat, are as fol- 

 lows : — First, a small maggot or larva of some insect, two or three 

 lines in length, that is found in the wheat plant soon after it is up in 

 the spring. Second, the fly that deposits its eggs when the wheat is 

 in the flower. Third, rust and mildew, which is most injurious in the 

 valleys and lowlands. And, Fourth, probably the want of lime in 

 sufficient quantities in the soil. A few years since, quite a number 

 of our farmers tried the cultivation of winter wheat. Some fair crops 

 of it were raised, but more generally it did not do well, and very little, 

 if any, is nov/ cultivated." 



FROM ASA CHARLES. 



" More wheat was raised, in Fryeburg, last year, and the year before, 

 than during any other of the last twenty years. For nearly that pe- 

 riod its cultivation had been suspended, on account of the destructive- 

 ness of what we call the weevil. "Wheat is more liable to blight or 

 mildew on our intervales than on the uplands. The weevil has not 

 yet wholly ceased its operations. Winter vv'hcat has not been tried 

 much, in this town, and I think its success questionable." 



FROM S. F. PJIRLEY. 



" The cultivation of wheat is increasing, in Naples. The greatest 

 hindrances to its cultivation are, the weevil, which attacks the early 

 sown, and the rust, which falls on that sown Idte ; yet, by sowing at 

 the rio-ht time, about May loth, the crop clears both with but little 

 injury. Of winter wheat, little has been cultivated, and that with ill 



success." 



FPvOM "\V. R. FLINT. 



" The cultivation of wheat is increasing in Anson. The hindrances 

 to its cultivation are the weevil and the rust. The first takes it if 

 sown early, and the last if sown late. For the last two years, that 

 sown from May 30th to June 4th has measurably escaped both. Win- 



