sowing; aud the estimated quantity of see J used per acre, respectively, 

 in these modes of seeding;:. 



Spring wheat. — The proportion of spring wheat sown is about 40 

 per cent, of the whole crop. It is grown mainly in Wisconsin, Minne- 

 sota, and Iowa, almost to the exclusion of fall-sown wheat in those 

 States. Michigan, though as far north as either, produces almost ex- 

 clusively winter-wheat, owing to the modifying influences of the sur- 

 rounding waters, and perhai:)s in some degree to the soil, much of which 

 has good natural drainage. One-third of the crop of Illinois, (in the 

 northern counties,) is spring-w^heat. «; A small portion of that of Kansas is 

 sown in the spring, and nearly all of that of Nebraska. California is 

 anomalous in w^heat as in everything else. Wheat can be sown all 

 through the summer to sprout when rains fall, or it may be put in all 

 through the rainy season till spring. In point of fact, the planting sea- 

 son has actually a range of several mouths. The little grown in the 

 IS'ew England States is nearly all spring-wheat. In the Middle aud 

 Southern States, and in the Western States not named a,bove, fall sow- 

 ing is almost the exclusive practice. A little is sown in the spring in 

 New York and Pennsylvania. 



A considerable portion of the farmers of New England, including 

 some of our correspondents, have never even seen a drill. One report 

 from Vermont (Grand Isle) makes the yield of drilled double one year, 

 while the next showed little difference. In Aroostook, Maine, new land 

 often yields 20 bushels per acre with broadcast sowing. 



The use of the drill is nowhere the predominant practice in the spring- 

 wheat region. Our returns cover nearly one-half of the area of spring- 

 wheat, and the proportion reported drilled is found to be 39 per cent, 

 in Minnesota, 38 in Wisconsin, 21 in Iowa, 11 in Illinois, 49 in Kansas, 



