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that tliis wheat is taking- tbe lead in bis State. Notwitlistancling the 

 drougbt and grasshopper plague, seveuty-tbree bushels of handsome 

 wheat were produced hist year on three ;icres of ])lowed laud u[)ou an 

 old farm in Waldo County. On another, whare the grasshoppers were 

 in great numbers, reducing the bay croi) tbree-fourths, sixty -four 

 bushels were })ro(hiced on four acres. JSTo other grain was harvest<id on 

 the same farm out of several acres sown. This wheat makes a fine 

 grade of flour, and holds its reputation in all i)arts of the State. Com- 

 mands $3 per bushel for seed. 



Encourage^ieisT to tree-planting in Maine. — Tbe following act 

 v>'as passed by the recent legislature, and has become a law : 



Tliat anj' laijd-lioldcr in this State who shall plant or set apart any cleared lands, or 

 lauds fioni which the primitive forest shall have been removed, for the grov/th and pro- 

 duction of forest-trees, within ten years after the passage of this act, and shall suc- 

 cessfnllj- grow and cnltivate the same for three years, the trees being not less in num- 

 ber than two thousand on each acre, and well distributed over tlio same, then on 

 application of the owner or occupant of such lands to the assessors of the town in 

 which the same is situated, and is so snccessfully cultivated or set apart to forest-trees, 

 and at the time of such application shall lile witli said assessors a correct plat of 

 such lands, with description of their location, and setting forth all the facts in relation 

 to the growth and cultivation of said grove of trees, or incipient forest, the same shall 

 be exempt from taxation for twenty j'ears thereafter; provided such grove or planta- 

 tion of trees shall during that period be ke^it alive and in a thriving condition. 



Wheat and potatoes in Western iS'EW York. — At a recent meet- 

 ing of the Le Roy Agricultural Society, Genesee County, ISlew York, C. 

 K. Ward reported a crop of 352 bushels of Diehl wheat, grown on 8 

 acres, which had been dressed with about eleven loads of manure per 

 acre. This yield, averaging 44 bushels per acre, was the largest he had 

 ever obtained. W. L. Bisho]) reported 1,400 bushels of Diehl and wliite 

 Michigan wheat on 50 acres, averaging 28 bushels per acre, worth 

 Sl.GO per bushel. Expenses per acre (on summer fallow) $18.20, leaving 

 a profit of 620.60 per acre. H. Ives, of Batavia, reported 3,G00 bushels 

 of potatoes, Early Eose, Goodrich, Harrison, and Jackson, on 24 

 acres, averaging 150 bushels per acre. Total value of the crop, at 

 40 cents per bushel, 81,440; expenses, including $1G for manure on one 

 acre, taxes, and 7 per cent, on land, valued at §180 ])er acre, amounted 

 to 8072, or 840.50 per acre; total profit, 8468; profit per acre, 819.50. 

 Mr. Ives has had long experience in this crop, and this statement rep- 

 rcvsents his average product and profit for a course of years. Ho plants 

 on a clover sod of one year, and does all the tilling with shovel-plow and 

 cultivator, running them once a week till time of wheat harvest. H. H. 

 Olmsted, president of the society, reported 2,400 bushels of Early Eose 

 potatoes on 10 acres, averaging 240 bushels per acre, and 820 bushels of 

 Harrison on 2^ acres, averaging 328 bushels per acre. 



Flax culture in Ireland.— The acreage of flax culture in Ireland, 

 for the year 1871, in the provinces of Ulster, Connaught, Leinster, and 

 Muuster, was 156,883 acres. The number of acres devoted to this cul- 

 ture in the same provinces in 1870 was 194,910, showing a decrease of 

 38^027 acres in the year 1871. 



Experbiental farms.— Mrs. William :Qaviess, of Harrodsburgh, 

 Kentucky, in a well-written article contributed to the press of that 

 State, urges the establishment of experimental farms in each county, 

 under the direction and control of county agricultural associations. 



Fultz wheat in PoTTAWATTA]\nE CouNTY, lowA. — Mr. I). B. Clark 

 writes as. follows from Council Bluffs, Iowa, under date of April 8: 

 September 17, 1871, I sowed four quarts Frdtz winter-wheat. All winter-killed ox- 



