Wa7-ren cotmty. — " There is very little difference in the appearance of the 

 drilled and broadcast ; what there is is in favor of the former." 



Loraine county. — "The drilled wheat suffered least; mine was drilled, and 

 I have over two-thirds of a crop, whilst my neighbors' is totally destroyed." 



Knox county. — " The difference in favor of drilling is not so apparent as 

 usual. Protection from the piercing wind, on the first of January last, had a 

 more favorable influence on the wheat crop than any other cause. Take our 

 county over, and we will scarcely have more than our seed. When I found 

 that my wheat was killed, as the next best thing I procured spring wheat, and 

 at the proper time put it in with a drill running crosswise of the last fall's drill- 

 ing, thus leaving the old to grow with the new. I have just finished cutting 

 a No. ] crop of wheat ; I cannot tell how much per acre, but the crop is a good 

 one in quantity and quality. If that course had been generally pursued, the 

 advantage to tbe country would have been immense." 



Defiance county. — " Drilled wheat has done very well, and shows its good 

 effects this season. Late-sowed wheat is not so good as usual. I think there 

 are at least ^^ difference, and in favor of drilled wheat." 



IOWA. 



Dcs Moines county. — " The winter wheat was frozen in the ground; therefore 

 no difference between that sown broadcast and by the drill." 



Dallas county. — " Drill sowing is decidedly the best, and rolling the gfound 

 heavily afterwards would have been an effectual remedy this season. Fields 

 treated thus suffered but little." [We suppose our correspondent speaks of 

 rolling in the spring, and not immediately after the drilling."] 



Floyd county. — " One of my assistants says he had some experience in 

 drilling spring grain. In an ordinary season good broadcast sowing is equally 

 good as drilling; but in a dry season the drill is the best." 



MICHIGAN. 



St. Joseph county. — " The grain-drill has not been used extensively in this 

 county, but when used properly the results show a decided advantage in that 

 mode of planting." 



Wayne county. — " The drilled wheat suffered equally with the broadcast, 

 save where drilled north and south, when, in some places, where the ruts were 

 deep, it was sheltered from the sweeping west wind. Drilling has some advan- 

 tages and also some disadvantages. Its advantages are, it is less liable to up- 

 heaval, and on loose soils to have the earth blown or washed away from its 

 roots. Its disadvantages ai'e, that in wet seasons it is liable to be submerged 

 in the ruts on undrained soils. When the ground is frozen, and a partial thaw 

 occurs, the ruts are filled with water, and frequently freeze over immediatelv on 

 the cessation of the thaw, and the wheat is frequently smothered. As far as 

 my experience goes, drilling is, on some soils and in certain seasons, an advan- 

 tage; in others, an injury. I found also the sweeping wind, rather than the 

 intensity of the frost, has destroyed the wheat. I find northeastern exposures, 

 where it must have been equally cold with other parts of the field, escaped by 

 having the wind arrested by the fences; that sowed by the drill, being in 

 trenches, suffered but little. I sowed last fall four hundred acres, both with drill 

 and hand. The hand-sowing is not worth cutting, whilst the drilled is fair. 

 The same is the case as far as my observation extends." 



Simpson county. — " Wheat that was sown on land cultivated last year in. 

 tobacco is in more than an average growing condition. That upon land culti- 

 vated in Indian corn less than an average." 



