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Our Moultrie county correspondent furnishes the following statement in ref- 
erence to the relative profits of wheat and corn culture: 
I shall take ten acres for a datum, and the present year (1867) for spring wheat as to 
quantity, and 1866 for corn, deeming that year an average of the previous nine years, the 
crop of 1867 having been a comparative failure, owing to the long-continued drought, and 
an unfair basis. : : me ; 
The variety of wheat sown was the Chinese; soil, prairie, old ground, nine years suc- 
cessively in corn. 
Ploughing, 6 days; dragging and rolling, 4 days, at $2.-..---..--.---.----.--- $20 00 
Sowing, $1; seed, 15 bushels at $1 50 per bushel.----.-------.-.-------------- 23 50 
Harvesting and stacking at $2 per acre... --- <.---- --2 262-25 s ee eee ee eee - 20 00 
Threshing, 6 cents per bushel ; sending to market, 4 cents..---..----.---------- 21 35 
84 85 
Credit’ by 2134 bushels wheat, $1 95 at station. ...+-.-...--.. 222 2------2e5--- 416 42 
Net profit, not counting wear of implements, sacks, etc.----..--.-----.---.----- 331 57 
The corn was planted on old ground, cropped six years in corn, 
Picurhine and, drareing; fat $l 25, per acres 622.2 sos. sak lalee se ace ws Jsccmcienes $12 50 
Iimintee Grog! molbliiG Oe se ob peacpe osen se soneno osees- Boer eo eee UE o eee ao- 8 00 
Seed, three grains in a hill...--.. Bey opel sncsctar sabi ssclqslele Gbiow adh cices eae cnhs 1 00 
Working 4 times, 14 days each time, team and man.....----------------------- 12 00 
Shelling and marketing, at 5 cents per bushel........--..-.-----------+--------- 20 75 
54 25 
Credit by 415 bushels of corn at 75 cents per bushel..---...----.-------------- 311 25 
Net prot on 10 acres ol Corte ea eee ee seo ee aah aa cisias sida Gaiam eels 257 00 
By feeding the corn to stock a much larger profit may be realized. 
The average yield per acre of the several leading crops of the State in 1867 
was as follows: Indian corn, 23.8 bushels ; wheat, 11.4 bushels; rye, 15 bushels ; 
oats, 30.1 bushels; barley, 22.3 bushels; buckwheat, 15.2 bushels; potatoes, 
60.5 bushels; hay, 1.5 tons; tobacco, 573 pounds. 
5. The principal varieties of wheat sown in Illinois are the China Tea, 
Siberian, Rio Grande, Fife, Canada Club, Genesee, Zimmerman, Michigan 
White, White Chaff, red and white May, red and white Mediterranean, Blue Stem, 
Tappahannock, Red Sea, with a number of others not extensively cultivated 
and going under local names. All the varieties named have their advocates in 
various localities. Of spring wheats the China Tea, Rio ‘Grande, Club, and 
Fife are the most popular as the most reliable and most productive, and of the 
winter varieties the white and red May and Mediterranean are considered more 
uniformly certain, standing the winter better than most other kinds. In several 
counties a variety known as the Zimmerman wheat is highly esteemed for its 
hardiness and general freedom from rust and blight. 'The Tappahannock wheat 
meets with much favor wherever introduced, and promises to become a very 
popular early winter wheat. A large proportion of the crop of Illinois is spring 
wheat, the winter varieties being so frequently injured by frosts as to render 
the crop uncertain in the northern part of the State. In the southern por- 
tions of the State winter varieties are more successful and are sown in larger 
proportion. 
Winter wheat is mostly sown in September, many of our correspondents 
favoring the earliest seeding, commencing late in August, while others recom- 
mend later sowing to escape the Hessian fly, and in some sections the seed is 
not all in before the middle of October. Spring seeding begins late in Febru- 
ary in a few localities, running through March on to the middle of April. In 
Crawford, Franklin, St. Clair, Washington, Fayette, Randolph, Sangamon, 
McHenry, Macoupin, Union, Madison, Cumberland, and a number of other 
