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culture last fall one quart of Early Boughton wheat, which I sowed September 
20, broadcast, on about one-twentieth of an acre of ground from which I had 
taken a crop of early potatoes. It ripened one week earlier than other varieties, 
and the yield was eighty-two pounds clean, screened wheat, of a very superior 
quality. If it continues to do anything like as well, I shall consider it a valu- 
able acquisition. 
Washtenaw county, Michigan—The Tappahannock wheat sent me last fall 
was sowed about the 1st of October. It ripened nearly three weeks earlier than 
the Treadwell, sowed at the same time and on the same soil. From the quart 
sent me I have raised seventy-four pounds of good, clean wheat, which will 
weigh over sixty pounds per bushel. 
Lenawee county, Michigan.—I sowed one quart of Boughton wheat on the 
29th of September, 1866, and threshed out one bushel of very plump, white 
wheat from the quart sowed. 
ARNAUTKA SPRING WHEAT. 
New London county, Connecticut—I received from the Department of Agri- 
culture, in the spring of 1867, one package of Arnautka hard spring wheat, 
which was sown the 13th of April in drills. One part was put upon soil in- 
clined to a sandy loam, exhausted by previous cropping. The green sward, 
having been ploughed tne fall previous, was sparingly manured with horse manure 
and ashes ploughed in, and a little hen manure scattered along in the drills near 
the grain, and the weeds afterward kept down by hoeing. The other parcel 
was put upon a more compact soil, in better condition, with no manure save a 
little in the hills, as the other, and received no hoeing. That on the more sandy 
soil did the best. Both did well, and were ready to harvest by the first of Au- 
gust, and, by estimation, yielded tweuty bushels to the acre of very nice-looking 
grain, and very free from smut. It is a valuable grain for this locality. 
Clinton county, Indiana.—Last spring I received from the Department of Agri- 
culture two packages of Arnantka, or hard spriag wheat. This I sowed broad- 
cast on common clay land, at the rate of one and a half bushel per acre, on the 
16th of April. The season was backward and very unfavorable; the native 
wheat in this locality made only about one-fourth of an average yield. I har- 
vested the Arnautka wheat on the 20th day of July; it produced at the rate 
of twenty bushels per acre, being considerably more than an average yield for 
our native wheat. It was not attacked by rust, weevil, or fly, and produced 
rather larger berry than the sample received from the department. It is pro- 
nounced by wheat-growers in this neighborhood a success. 
THE SANDOMIRKA WHEAT. 
Jefferson county, New York.—I received in 1866 from your department a small 
sack of Sandomirka winter wheat, imported from Odessa. I prepared five and 
a half square rods of ground which had never been manured, and had raised 
three crops after being cleared up from a forest. I sowed the wheat in drills, 
two and a half inches deep, the last of August, 1866. It stood the winter 
through without any injury, and matured ahd ripened so that I harvested it on 
the last day of July, 1867. The product was forty-seven and a quarter pounds 
‘of fine, plump wheat. The weevil did it some injury, but nothing serious. I 
attribute the injury of the weevil more to the small space covered than to the 
kind of wheat. The spring wheat usually found in this country was quite as 
much injured by the weevil as this Sandomirka wheat. From my experience 
thus far, it seems to be well adapted to our soil and climate, and preferable to 
our common spring wheat. 
