I'ULTZ WHEAT. 



Bit))comhr, ^'oc//i Cari)Una. — The Fiiltz -wheat sent uie, put in hy different persous 

 aud on different kinds of soil, h)oks very well on strong, deep, stiff', ninlatto soil, and, 

 if manured, on jjravelly, gray soil. Other varieties of wheat are considerably winter- 

 killed on loose, o[)en, porous soil. 



GrecnviUe, South Carolina. — One of the grains of the Fultz wheat, sent me last 

 year by the Department of Agriculture, i)roduoed tifty-six stalks, averaging 3 feet 

 high ; size of leaf J foot long by J incli wide. Each head contains 30 grains, an in- 

 crease of 1,680 fold. It has no rust, and is now so far developed that it is independent 

 of any drawbacks from fluctuations of weather. It looks fair and beautiful, a proof 

 that it is in the right belt of earth and climate. 



I.IXCOLX WHEAT. 



Jasper, Iowa. — I send you a sample of wheat grown here the last two years, by the 

 name of Lincoln wheat, a bearded variety. It is the hardiest, most productive, and 

 in every respect the best wheat I have ever seen. It should be well distributed 

 through the States that grow spring-wheat. It is neither early nor late in maturing. 



ROTATION IN CROPS. 



Greenville, South Carolina. — Ninety-nine times in a hundred, wheat planted here by 

 tlie 10th of October will yield a good crop by the 10th of June. Clover-seed, rolled in 

 at the same time with the wheat, will give a crop of " stubble-hay" after the wheat 

 « comes oft', better for cattle than corn-fodder. If the land is good, the clover, which 

 stands three years, will yield a larger profit in hay than any other crop. Then clover- 

 sod, plowed in aud put to corn, will give 30 bushels to the acre. Then, with six wagon- 

 loads of barn-yard manure to the acre, plowed in, it will yield a wheat crop of from 

 12 to 15 bushels per acre. Then let the field stand in clover and rest for three years 

 again. 



DISASTROUS FLOODS. 



Greene, Missonri. — An abundant harvest is generally promised, though in some sec- 

 tions there have been disastrous floods, completely ruining bottom-farms, washing the 

 soil entirely away, aud leaving beds of gravel in its place. In some instances the first 

 intimation of danger would be the noise of the flood coming down the valley, which 

 was described as a wall of water, 6 feet high, reaching from bluft' to bluff. JEye-wit- 

 nesses say that two dense clouds came from opposite quarters of the heavens, and that 

 when they met a perfect deluge followed. Several lives wore lost. 



Ada County, Idaho Territory. — The unusually high waters in the Boise and Payette 

 Rivers, upon which are situated most of the cultivated lauds of the county, have seri- 

 ously damaged the grain crop, though it is hoped that the injury will be found to be 

 less than at present reported — some estimating it at one-fourth of the entire crop. The 

 waters are now subsiding rapidly. 



