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the Earl of Derby saying that it was his deliberate opinion tliat the laud of England 

 might be made to double its present produce, and still more that Lord Leicester 

 should back up that opinion." 



Now, I do not hesitate to say that with regard to corn the noble lords were strictly 

 rigat, and their honorable critic egregiously in the wrong. 



By the adoption of my system this could be done, and the whole of the breadstuffs 

 which we purchase each year at the enormous sum of forty millions sterling might be 

 produced upon our own land at home, enriching the proprietors and cultivators of 

 England, and annually adding these forty millions to the wealth of the entire nation. 



CROP EXPERIMENTS. 



FuLTZ WHEAT. — A coiTesponcleut -writing from Lauderdale Coiiuty, 

 Alabama, gives the following as his experience with one quart of this 

 wheat received from the Department in 1872 : 



This is my third crop from the one quart of wheat received. The amount of land 

 employed was four and one-half acres, from which I have just threshed ninety bushels 

 of splendid wheat, or twenty bushels to the acre. It was sown in a field by the side 

 of eleven acres of Reed-straw wheat, which yielded nine bushels to the acre. The sea- 

 son was very unfavorable on account of heavy and continued rains throughout March 

 and April. About the 1st of May the Fultz was badly scalded, or blighted ; in fact 

 looked as if it would not make half a crop. With a favorable season, I am confident 

 it would have made thirty or more bushels per acre. I think it will prove the best 

 wheat yet introduced into this part of the South. Our average yield of wheat for the 

 ast five years has been about ten bushels. 



Hon. W. E. li^iblack, of Indiana, incloses to the Department the state- 

 ment of a farmer in his district in which it appears that a sowing of one 

 quart of Fultz, November 6, 1871, yielded thirty pounds. This product 

 was sown in September, 1872, and yielded ten bushels. In turn, this 

 was sown in September, 1873, and produced 300 bushels. Two acres, 

 sown after tobacco, yielded 104 bushels, or 50 bushels per acre. The 

 entire crop was grown on clay soil. 



The Frederick County (Md.) Examiner, of recent date, records a yield 

 of Fultz wheat in that county of 42 bushels per acre on 42^ acres, " a 

 result which, as far as we have heard, has nowhere been equaled." 



The results for three years on the experimental farm of the University 

 of Wisconsin are given, as follows : 



Sown. 



Kate per acre. 



Harvested. 



Yield. 



September 18, 1871 

 September 10, 1872 

 September 5, 1873 



IJ busbel 

 ij bushel 

 11 bushel 



Julv 12.... 

 July 11.... 

 July 1.... 



33 bushels. 

 20 bushels. 



34 bushels, 55 pounds. 



The yield in each case is given by weight, GO ponnds to the bushel ; 

 the grain has weighed 60 to 62 pounds to the measured bushel. The 

 crop of 1872-'73 was on new and partly low ground. The ice in early 

 spring killed a part of the crop. This year (1874) a lot on old ground,' 

 following oats, and on side-hill facing south, yielded 29 bushels 26^ 

 pounds per acre. :"^_r^:^ 



pf? Fultz wheat w^as first distributed by the Department in 1871. A his- 

 orical note of its origin was given in the Annual Eeport for that year. 



Jennings wheat.— Dr. H. M. Price, of Fluvanna County, Virginia, 

 reports the results of a Jcomparisonjjbetween the Jennings wheat (re - 

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