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long, but well filled, witli from tliirty to forty grains. The kernel is 

 white, and flinty, large, and with thin bran; the flour is very supe- 

 rior; specimens of this wheat have been known to reach 67 lbs. to the 

 bushel. 



We have now in cultiYation a wheat called the white Turkey, the 

 origin of which is not given ; it answers to the description of Harmon's 

 white Flint, (which is another esteemed variety,) but the exterior 

 coating does not seem so hard, and transparent, but has a yellow 

 cream-like tinge, and the grain is very soft and the bran uncommon- 

 ly thin. This wheat has taken the premium in the neighborhood of 

 Cincinnati, as likewise the flour at our Fairs for several years past. 

 It succeeds well upon all wheat growing soils, especially upon a thin 

 clay, yielding a more remunerative crop than any other. This wheat 

 has been known to weigh 72 lbs. to the bushel as attested at the Fair 

 of 1852 by Mr. Dair, a well known seedsman of Cincinnati. This 

 wheat was raised by a Mr. Wardel, of Green township, near Cheviot. 

 A grist of the same wheat yielded 44 lbs. of flour to the bushel of 

 standard weight (60 lbs.) It very much resembles the specimen just 

 received with near forty others from the United States Patent Office, 

 called the Prince Albert white wheat. Flour from this wheat will 

 everywhere command at least ten per cent, premium. 



Old Genesee red chafi": an old favorite, but liable to rust and the 

 fly; red chafi", bald, long straw, berry white and large, bran thin, su- 

 perior flour; Kentucky white-bearded, white chaS", heads short but 

 heavy and well filled, shells readily, berries round, short and white, 

 flour good, straw liable to injury from insects. 



Indiana wheat: white chafi", bald, berry white and large, bran thin, 

 berry not so flinty as the white flint, but the straw is larger and 

 longer, shells easily, is attacked by the insects and it is more liable 

 to be winter killed. Red Bearded, red chaff", beards standing out from 

 the head, berry white, good flour, succeeds well after corn, bran thick, 

 inferior flour; the Egyptian many spiked, or wild goose wheat, is a 

 hardy variety, with a thick straw, which prevents its lodging; not 

 grown in this part of the country. 



The Mediterranean is a well known and tested variety in this region ; 

 light red chaff, bearded, berry red and long, flinty, bran thick, and 

 the flour rather inferior. This wheat yields well, and seems to be a 

 hardy variety which in some measure compensates for its inferior 

 quality. It may be laid down as pretty general that the red wheats 

 succeed best upon the strongest clay land, and they degenerate 



