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bushels of White Swedish oats. Eeduced to acres, the product wavS : Nor- 

 way, twenty-eight bushels, of thirty-two pounds ; German, thirty-two 

 bushels, of thirty -four iiounds ; Swedish, thirty-five bushels, of thirty- 

 eight iiounds. I have grown four crops of Swedish oats, each of which 

 has been satisfactory. The several varieties of turnips have done 

 well, yet none have excelled the Piu-ple Top. The T)lant called kolil rabi 

 grew to weigh ten pounds or more, and has attracted considerable at- 

 tention. Last year I sowed one quart of Alsike .clover seed 5 it grew to 

 the height of three feet or more, with many branches, and has long and 

 strong roots. 



Alexander, Me. — Three pounds of the Arnautka spring wheat, received 

 from the Department of Agriculture, was sown 26th of May, in twelve 

 drills sixty feet long, about fifteen inches between the drills. Put on 

 about two pailfuls of unleached wood ashes. Potatoes were the pre- 

 ceding crop, lightly manured. Threshed and cleaned up thirty-six and 

 one-fourth pounds of nice plump wheat. If sown thinner, the crop 

 would probably have been one-third larger. 



Orleans Gouniy, Yt. — The Arnautka spring wheat, received from the 

 Department, proved as early as any variety raised here ; hardy and 

 free from disease. Three quarts sown yielded about two bushels of nice 

 wheat 5 the threshers called it the best they had seen. The Somerset 

 oats from England ripened ten days earlier than other varieties here, 

 but the birds shelled the grain, so that I did not get more than one- 

 half bushel from a (juart sown ; but the}" are very heavy. The white 

 Schoneu oats ripened August 15, yielding well, and they are a de- 

 sirable grain. The Black Swedish oats ripened September 12, which 

 was very late. The Saxonian and Probstier barlej^ are two rowed va- 

 rieties, and are just alike while growing, so I have put them together ; 

 got two bushels from three quarts; very heavy grain. 



Yields of grain in this county : Emery Cook, of Glover, raised one 

 liundred and forty bushels of wheat on four acres. Thomas Baker, of 

 Barton, raised one hundred and seventeen l>usheis of wheat on four 

 acres. Willard Chamberlain raised twenty-one bushels from one and 

 one-half bushels, sown on three-fourths of an acre. Horatio Nye 

 raised forty-three bushels from two bushels of seed. E. H. and L. H. 

 Nye, of Glover, raised forty-four bushels from two and a fourth bushels 

 of seed. J. C. Chapman, of Barton, raised three hundred bushels of Nor- 

 way oats from seven bushels of seed, and part of them at the rate of 

 one hundred bushels per acre. Perley Hill, of Irasburg, raised foiir 

 hundred bushels ears of corn from three acres. 



Essex County, X. J. — Of all the varieties of turnip seed sent me last 

 spring, the only kind which succeeded at all was the White Elat Dutch 

 or White Strap Leaf. All the vSwedish or yellow varieties proved 

 complete failures, probably owing to the severe and protracted drought 

 of August and September. My general experience is that the Eed and 

 White Flat Dutch or Strap Leaf are the only reliable kinds for this soil 

 or climate, as I have never had any success with other kinds, though I 

 have taken every pains in jirepariug the soil. 



Washington County, Fa. — I\Ir. C sowed two and one-half quarts 



of Tappahannock wheat, and threshed sixty-eight pounds; not quite 

 a bushel by measure. I sowed one quart of White Schoneu oats, and 

 harvested one and one-quarter bushel of grain, at the rate of sixty-four 

 bushels per acre. 



Nelson County, Va. — The Tappahannock wheat, introduced from 

 your Department, seems well adapted to our climate, and gives general 

 satisfaction. Should it continue to maintain its present standard, this 



