400 



The maximum yield, 30 bushels per acre, was ou 17 acres of oats 

 stubble seeded Avith amber wheat, variety not designated, at the rate of 

 a bushel per acre. Several cases averaged about M bushels of White- 

 beard, amber, Tappahannock,rultz, blue-stem Mediterranean, »&c., some 

 of them occupying a considerable acreage. Generally, an increase of 

 acreage is accompanied by a depressed average. One farmer, ou 120 

 acres, the largest area noted, averaged 13 bushels 'per acre of Tappa- 

 iiannock ; another averaged 1<S bushels of Walker wheat on 50 acres, 

 and 14 bushels of Tappahannock on another 50 acres. A farmer just 

 outside of the county averaged 19 bushels on 96 acres. In nearly half 

 the cases noted the wheat was seeded upon cotton-land ; corn-land was 

 seeded in almost as many cases, while a few followed oats, clover, pas- 

 ture, &c. About half the crop of the county was good and the other 

 half inferior, mostly smutted. Where the seed had been soaked in a 

 solution of bluestone this malady was avoided. This preparation will 

 hereafter be more generally used. The effect of the preceding crop 

 upon the growing crop was slight, as the same kind of land produced 

 both large and small crops. The seed sown varied from 3 pecks to 5 

 pecks i)er acre. 



Wheat report from Rutherford County, Tennessee. 



