SECRETARY'S REPORT. 61 



FEOM S. W. COLLINS. 



" Wheat, for the last few years, has diminiihed in cultivation, in 

 the town of Lyndon. The weevil and the rust are the principal 

 causes. Our soil is well adapted to the raising of wheat, and I 

 think it will yet be extensively cultivated. The average yield is from 

 twelve to thirty-five bushels per acre." 



FROM J. FLINT, JR. 



" The cultivation of wheat is increasing, in Baldwin. The principal 

 hindrance to its more extended cultivation, I should say, is the want 

 of energy and resolution on the part of our farmers. The fact is, most 

 of our enterprising young men leave for the West and elsewhere. This 

 produces a lack of enterprise among our farmers. We have not ma- 

 nure to raise wheat extensively ; but we might raise double the amount 

 we nov,- do, by using economy in preserving our manures, drawing muck 

 to our farms, and extending our grazing land. Winter wheat has been 

 tried with poor success." 



FROM CHESTER B. SUMNER. 



" The cultivation of wheat has very sensibly and largely increased, 

 in the town of Appleton. There is no reason why it should not be 

 more extensively cultivated. Winter wheat has been but slightly cul- 

 tivated, and with but indifferent success." 



FROM JOHN ROGERS. 



" Wheat is, of late, engaging more attention, in Kittery, than for- 

 merly. The day is not far distant when farmers will find it more for 

 their interest to grow wheat than to import flour from the West. The 

 blight, the rust, and the weevil are the hindrances to the cultivation of 

 this grain, with us. I have, this season, sown, on my own farm, one 

 bushel of the Scotch Fyfe Avheat, introduced into this State by W. W. 

 Coombs, of Augusta, that promises a bountiful yield. I think it a 

 great gain. Of winter wheat, none has been sown here for many 

 years." 



FROM ^y. H. POWERS. 



"The cultivation of wheat is increasing, in Bridgton. The grain 

 worm, or weevil, as it is called, has committed such ravages in past 

 years that the cultivation of wheat was almost entirely abandoned. 

 But since 1850 there has not been so much damage from this source, 

 and the crops have steadily increased. The want of an abundant sup- 

 ply of manure is another great hindrance. The succession of dry 

 seasons has reduced the hay crop, and consequently the stock of ma- 

 nure. Wheat cannot be profitably gro^vn without generous manuring. 



