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Wheat report from Eutherford County, lennessee — Continued. 



Party growing. 



Variety. 



Last year's crop. 



Childress & Tarpley 

 Childress & Tarpley 



Jack Todd 



John "W. McCnUoch 



B. T. JohDson 



Samuel Donnel 



K. Carlton 



K. Carlton 



J. L. Stroop 



W. P.M. Betty 



D. H. Sneed 



D. H. Sneed 



•D. H. Sneed 



D.H. Sneed 



B. "W". Henry 



E.B. Jetton 



John W. Childress . . 

 John "W. Childress . . 



Samuel "Watkins 



Thomas H. Hays 



Thomas H. Hays 



Mediterranean. 

 Tappahannock. 

 Mediterran ean . 

 Mediterranean. 



Bonghton 



Odessa 



Fnltz 



Amber 



Eeed 



Reed 



Boughton 



Mediterranean. 



Orleans 



Boughton 



Odessa 



Tappahannock. 



"Walker 



Tappahannock. 

 Ked bearded . . . 



Boughton 



Walker 



Corn. 



Cotton. 



Oats. 



Cotton. 



Cotton. 



Clover. 



Corn. 



Cotton. 



Com. 



Com and cotton. 



Corn. 



Open. 



Corn. 



Com. 



Cotton, corn, and wheat. 



Corn. 



Cotton and clover. 



Cotton and clover. 



Pasture. 



Cotton. 



Corn. 



Number of reports, 137 ; number of acres, 2,721 ; total number of bushels, 33,404 ; average yield per 

 acre, 12^ bushels. 



Continuous wheat- GEowiisra with commercial, fertilizers. — 

 The experiment made in England of growing wheat with little regard 

 to rotation, and none whatever to fertilizing with farm-manures, by 

 means of deep steam-ciilture and abundant use of commercial fertilizers, 

 has been frequently referred to in this report. The custom is to sell 

 the ripened crops standing, the ripening occurring early in August. 

 Mr. Middleditch, at Blunsden, near Swindon, has sold the product of 

 550 acres, of which 350 were wheat, for over £5,000, or $25,000. The 

 Eivett cone-wheat brought $58.75 per acre ; oats, $50.87 ; winter-beans, 

 $50. Mr. Front's crops, at Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, on his farm 

 of 450 acres, realized $54.22 per acre for all crops : wheat, $53.14 ; bar- 

 ley, $45.42; oats, $55.94; clover, $76.95. The purchaser has, of course, 

 the expense of harvesting. At this price, standing, the yield must have 

 exceeded 40 bushels per acre, unless it was of the very highest quality. 

 This is about the usual yield of the farms in a course of a dozen years. 



EussiAN APPLES, ETC. — The Secretary of the Kock Point Farmers' 

 Club, Marion County, Oregon, reports as follows : " Those Eussian 

 apples received from the Department are doing finely. None of the 

 trees are yet bearing. The Italian plum is liable to winter-kill here, 

 but the German prune is at home, and a finer fruit would be hard to 

 find." 



A SEVERE LOCAL DROUGHT. — Under date of September 6, the sec- 

 retary of the agricultural society in Austin County, Texas, reports that 

 the protracted drought still continues in the northern part of that county, 

 though rains are falling in the southern part and in the adjoining coun- 

 ties. Springs and wells are all drying up, and the milch-cows have to 

 be turned from the inclosures and driven miles away in search of water. 

 One of the adverse consequences is a failure of milk and butter. 



