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ment with an elaborate and valuable tabular statement of wheat-grow- 
ing in his county. The same writer has furnished us with a similar 
statement, embracing a larger acreage and more numerous cultivators. 
Last year his tables embraced 137 wheat-cultures and 2,721 acres, yield- 
ing 33,404 bushels, an average of 124 bushels. This year the tables 
include 143 cultures and 3,079 acres, producing 28,646, or 94 bushels 
per acre, a marked decline from the results of last year. This decline 
is attributed almost entirely to the rust. The quality of the crop is 
ereatly in advance of last year. A noticeable feature in this year’s crop 
is the absence of smut, a fact probably due to the free use of blue-stone. 
Of the different varieties of seed, the Walker was preferred in 37 
eases; the Mediterranean and the Tappahannock or Boughton, each, 
in 30 cases; the Reed wheat, in 14; the amber, in 10; the white- 
bearded, in 8; the Fultz, in 6; the Odessa and golden chaff, in 3 each ; 
the Missouri and Genesee, in 1 each. The largest tract cultivated con- 
tained 136 acres; the smallest, one acre ; the average, 20.83 acres. The 
maximum yield was 25 bushels of Mediterranean per acre on 6 acres, on 
upland soil, from which a crop of millet had been gathered. The next 
best crop, 1 acre of Fultz, yielding 224 bushels, also followed the millet. 
In over three-fourths of the cases the wheat-crop followed corn or corn 
and cotton. The crops reported were almost exclusively grown on 
upland soil, only 6 being on bottom and 1 on second bottom. Smut 
appeared in 29 cases, but in some of these it is barely mentionable. 
