98 PRIZE ESSAY : 



stein ; Soule's, and Humes White Wheat. There may be other 

 kinds equally valuable, but the above are the earliest, hardiest, 

 most prolific, and produce the best flour of any with which 

 we are acquainted. Ploughing wheat stubble in the fall has 

 been recommended, with much show of reason in its favour, 

 but it is evident that the practice must become general before 

 much good can be expected from it. One large field left un- 

 ploughed would furnish flies enough in the spring to spread the 

 mischief over the whole neighborhood, or settlement. (?) (?)(i) 



There is no variety of wheat entirely exempt from the attacks 

 of insects. The Mediterranean is said to be less liable to their 

 attacks than any other, but it is a coarse, red-bearded wheat, and 

 makes inferior flour. It is an early kind, but the grain is as 

 dark as the rye, and seldom plump. It is not grown in Upper 

 Canada to any great extent. 



163. It will be well here to draw attention once more to the 

 suggestions of Mr, Hutton, although given at length in para- 

 graph 137- 



" One fact is well established, thatinear/y(8) situations, on early 

 spots, where the seed was sown early there was no Weevil, (wheat 

 midge.) In low, damp, late situations, and wherelatesown it has 

 been extremely destructive. This important fact ought to be 

 well remembered by our neighbours west of us, where they will 

 have it undoubtedly in a very short time, and exertions ought to 

 be used by them to sow early, and earl}^ kinds of seeds, to drain 

 the land well and make small ridges, and otherwise expedite 

 the growth as much as possible. The early sowed Sovde wheat 

 escaped last year in many instances, in the very centre of the 

 Weevil's destructive ravages." Prize Report, county of Has- 

 tings, by W. Hutton, Esq., 18.52. 



(1) The notos of interrogation are the author's — it is very improbable that one large 

 field would spread the mischief if the other artifices above noticed were adopted. 



(2) In the absence of the Hessian Fly. 



