12 The Bulletin. 



WHEAT. 



Wheat is rapidly gaining in importance as a staple crop in ISTorth. 

 Carolina. We have most excellent wheat lands in the State, but on 

 account of low prices of all farm products, until comparatively recently, 

 the wheat crop has not been pushed, cotton having largely taken its 

 place even on the best wheat lands in the State. 



We can grow wheat and in large amounts. Every man recalls, as a 

 schoolboy, to have had his especial attention called to California on 

 account of its phenomenal yields of wheat, sometimes as high as 50 

 bushels to the acre having been reported. It is interesting to note that 

 while the wheat crop of California has always been good, the average 

 yield in that State has frequently fallen below the average yield in 

 N'orth Carolina. There have been as large yields of wheat obtained in 

 this as perhaps almost any state in the Union — not yields from indi- 

 vidual acres, but from whole farms. There is a large farm in Halifax 

 County on which there were grown last year an average of 281/^ 

 bushels per acre on a 140-acre field. In Johnston County, a gentleman 

 grew an average of 42 bushels per acre on a 50-acre field, with indi- 

 vidual acres running as high as 50 bushels. In Eandolph County, a 

 gentleman grew last year an average of 27 bushels per acre on a 40-acre 

 field. In Davidson County, a farmer grew an average of over 30 

 bushels per acre on a 130-acre tract. But we need not multiply exam- 

 ples. Suffice it to say that these yields were gotten by practice of com- 

 mon-sense methods on lands adapted by nature or by preparation to the 

 growth of wheat. These yields may be duplicated by any farmer who 

 has good heavy clay loam or silt loam soil and is willing to treat it 

 properly. 



The wheat crop in North Carolina in 1909 was 3,827,000 bushels- 

 in 1910, 6,817,000 bushels; in 1911, 6,636,000 bushels. 



Table No. 3 — Showhif/ Rank of North Carolhia in Wheat Pro- 

 duction in 1911 as Compared icith Other States. 



North Carolina G.63C.000 



Texas G,oSO,000 



West Virginia 2,737,000 



Georgia 1,740.000 



New Mexico 1 .202,000 



Arlvausas 1.008,000 



Soutli Carolina 940,000 



Arizona 800,000 



Alabama 345,000 



Mississippi 108,000 



COTTON. 



Notwithstanding we are on the northern limit of the cotton belt, a 

 large amount of this staple crop is produced every year — indeed, we 

 have a few counties that are unexcelled in cotton production. Last year 



