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two acres, well manured, 120 bushels of good corn.” Whitley county : “Corn 
and wheat, crops eaten and fed to horses, cattle, and hogs, which are driven on 
foot to foreign markets.” Oldham county : “Indian corn the chief crop; 40- 
bushels to the acre; net profit, $12 to $15 per acre.” Henry county : “The greatest 
profit is derived from the corn crop, which is fed to stock, mules, steers, and hogs, 
affording good profits.” Fayette county: “If we have any specialty it is 
in the fine quality of our stock; probably no section of our country can boast 
of finer stock than we have, and, in my judgment, mules, horses and cattle attain 
a higher degree of perfection here than in .any other section of the Union” 
Boyle county: “This is a stock-raising county ; but little grain is sent out of 
the county, most of the corn and grass raised being fed to stock. - This is one 
of the principal mule-raising counties in the State.” Harrison county: “ A large 
portion of the corn crop, nearly all the rye and a small portion of the wheat is 
distilled into whiskey, there being several large distilleries in the county, making 
a fine market for grain, they paying this season $1 for corn and $1 15 for rye.”’ 
5. Many varieties of wheat are cultivated in Kentucky, among them white 
and red Mediterranean, blue stem, red May, Walker, golden chaff, smooth 
chaff, Tennessee, New Orleans, Rock hill, Tappahannock, Kentucky white, 
Georgia white, blue straw, &c., &c.; the red and white Mediterranean, blue 
straw, red May and Tappahanuock being the varieties generally preferred. The 
Mediterranean is esteemed for its uniform hardiness, being less apt to freeze out 
than most other varieties. The white yields the most, but the red is considered 
the surest crop, and hence more extensively grown. In Heury county the white 
is preferred, “ because it yields larger crops, commands higher prices, and will 
stand much longer after it is ripe without becoming straw-fallen or injured.” 
Our Fayette correspondent says : 
The white varieties, when escaping rust, yield larger crops than the red, but in consequence 
of their more succulent straw, are much more liable to this disease and are accordingly 
rendered valueless ; the red Mediterranean and amber yield less crops in a good season, but ~ 
for a series of years are more reliable for a fair yield. 
The almost universal opinion is that the white yields the largest crop under favor- 
able circumstances, aud makes a higher priced flour, but that the red is most reli- 
able for all seasons, the former being more liable to injury by rust, the midge, &c. 
The red and white May, the Tappahannock, the Walker, the New Orleans, are 
valued for their early ripening qualities and their consequent escape from diseases 
and insects, to which later varieties are subject. The Tappahannock is proving 
successful in localities where introduced, and one correspondent says: 
The white May and the Tappahannock are preferred, the first named for its early maturity 
and general exemption from rust; the latter for its good yield and the preference given it in 
market, it usually selling 15 to 20 cents per bushel higher than other varieties. 
Very little spring wheat is sown. A correspondent, however, says: 
The package sent me from the department produced so very finely that I shall sow the 
entire product (which was one bushel from a quart) next spring. 
Wheat is generally sown broadcast from the middle of September to the 
middle of October, the drill being practically unknown in most of the counties, 
and where used putting in a small percentage of the seed. Harvesting com-. 
mences as early as the middle of June, and is usually over the first week in 
July. But little attention is given to cultivation. In Russell and many other 
counties they “sow in corn land, scratching in among the corn stalks with a 
shovel plough, the yield being from four to ten bushels.” Another correspondent 
says: . 
The cultivation is slovenly; in land cropped with corn wheat is put in broadcast, and the 
ground run over with cultivators ; clover, lea, aud oat stubble is ploughed three to three and 
a half inches in July and August, the grain sown broadcast and harrowed in. 
Our Ohio county reporter says: 
The amount of our crop varies from 5 to 25 bushels per acre; our failures in wheat crops 
