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THE PACIFIC STATES AND THE TERRITORIES. 
Returns from the Pacific States and Territories, while too limited to warrant 
a general estimate of the leading crops, indicate the following figures, using 10 
as the standard for last year, as in the preceding tables : 
California.—W heat, 11.5; rye, 10; barley, 9.5; oats, 9; corn, 9.8; hay, 
10; potatoes, 9.5. 
Oregon.—W heat, 10; rye, 10; barley, 8; oats, 9; corn, 11; hay, 8; pota- 
toes, 9. 
Nevada—W heat, 15; rye, 10; barley, 10; oats, 10; corn, 10.2; hay, 15; 
potatoes, 10. 
Washington Territory —Wheat, 9.8; barley, 10; oats, 10.4; corn, 9.8; hay, 
8; potatoes, 11.2. 
Dakota Territory.— Wheat, 9; rye, 10; barley, 10; oats, 10; corn, 8; hay, 
10; potatoes, 8. 
Colorado Territory— Wheat, 12; rye, 10; barley, 10; oats, 12; cdrn, 11; 
hay, 12; potatoes, 11. 
Utah Territory.—W heat, 10.5; rye, 10; barley, 10; oats, 10; corn, 9; hay, 
11; potatoes, 11. 
EXTRACTS FROM CORRESPONDENCE. 
EARLY BOUGHTON OR TAPPAHANNOCK WHEAT. 
The following extracts show the success of the Early Boughton or 'Tappa- 
hannock wheat in the several localities mentioned : 
Giles county, Tennessee-—The 'Tappahannock wheat did not arrive until the 
9th of October, was sown on the 10th, and ripened two weeks before the other, 
and yields all of one-fourth more of excellent A No. 1 wheat. I hope and be- 
lieve it will prove a boon to our section. 
Franklin county, North Carolina —Robert Perry, of this county, seeded two 
and a half pounds of Tappahannock wheat, received from the Department of 
Agriculture, on a piece of land 20 by 20 yards, and realized eighty pounds from 
it. It was seeded early in November, on land not well prepared for a favorable 
result, and was injured by rains. It weighed sixty-two and a half pounds to 
the measured bushel. It is eight or ten days earlier than the wheat in cultiva- 
tion here. 
Baltimore county, Maryland.—The Tappahannock wheat has done exceed- 
ingly well, ripened early, and I could not see one head injured by the midge. 
The Arnautka spring wheat is injured by the midge, probably owing to late 
seeding. About one-fourth is destroyed. This wheat has a remarkably fine 
appearance. JI will give it another trial. 
Clarke county, Virginia.—lt is the practice here to sow every kind of smooth 
wheat later than the bearded varieties, the smooth wheats being more obnoxious 
to the Hessian fly. I think the injury the white wheat sustained was due to 
late sowing ; having seen some fields of the Boughton wheat seeded in Septem- 
. ber, which made very heavy crops of fine quality. 
Windsor county, Vermont——On the 1st day of October, 1866, I sowed, on 
alluvial soil, one quart of Early Boughton wheat. On the 6th instant I reaped 
it, and on the 17th had it threshed and cleaned, and had ten quarts very nice 
and good berry. But for an injury last fall from cattle, I should have had twelve 
quarts, which is, allowing one and a fourth bushels of seed to the acre, above an 
average for this State, and in quality superior to any I have seen. 
Columbia county, Pennsylvania.—I received from the Department of Agri- 
