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chance to yield abundantly. The yield was seven bushels, which some thought 
would have been swelled to ten had it not been for a severe storm, which laid 
down a large area that could not be saved. The unusual tillering and strength 
of straw made were the wonder of all who beheld the lot where the wheat was matu- 
ring. Some late white wheat, sown in juxtaposition at the usual rate of sowing, 
did not begin to yield at the rate of fourteen bushels to the acre, as was the case 
with the Boughton wheat. Much of the seven bushels obtained has already 
been shared with others. One bushel I have sown myself, on good bottom 
land, in Montgomery county, at the rate of a quart to the acre, still experiment- 
ing with sparse sowing and anxious to increase our stock of so fine a variety 
for another year. We are under great obligation to the department for having 
given us the first start.” 
BOUGHTON WHEAT. 
Mooresburg, Hawkins county, Tenn.—I got from the, department one gal- 
lon of Tappahannock wheat. I placed it in the hands of a good farmer; the 
yield was 41 gallons of as fine wheat as I ever saw in England or this country. 
It will all be sown this fall. 
A correspondent in Armstreng county, Pennsylvania, writing of the Boughton 
wheat, says: “It ripened July 4, and is a complete failure.’ He does not say 
in what respect it was a failure, except that it did not equal in growth of straw 
or length of heads other wheat planted by its side. 
ARNAUTKA SPRING WHEAT. 
Dubuque county, Iowa.—I received from the late Hon. I. Newton a pack- 
age of spring wheat, weighing one and a half pound, called Arnautka or hard 
spring wheat. I drilled it in on three rods of ground, from which I harvested 
61 pounds of wheat, which is about 53 bushels to the acre. It is undoubtedly 
a productive kind of wheat. 
Le Sueur county, Minn.—Agyreeable to request, I herewith transmit report 
of experiment with Arnantka, or hard spring wheat you had the kindness to 
send me February 13, 1867. There was oue and three-fourths pound of the 
seed when sown. Sowed April 24. It grew nicely and stood up well. Har- 
vested August 12, and when threshed yielded just fifty pounds. I think it a 
good kind of wheat for this climate and soil, (sandy loam,) a thing very much 
needed, as our seed needs changing in order that we may get full crops and a 
full return for our Jabor. 
Johnson county, Nebraska—About the 20th of April last I sowed one pint 
of the Arnautka spring wheat, received from the Department of Agriculture, 
and harvested twenty-five pounds from it. I think the wheat well adapted to 
this part of Nebraska. 
WHITE AND RED MEDITERRANEAN WHEAT. 
Hampden county, Mass——In the fall of 1866 I received one package each of 
red and white Mediterranean wheat, which were sowed on 4th of October. 
When well up it was badly damaged by a drove of cows. It grew up again, 
. however, and was cut on the 16th of July. When threshed out there were 
fifty-one pounds of the red and forty-six of the white. The former threshed 
easier, yielded better than the white, and is preferable for growth in the Con- 
necticut valley. The wheat was grown upon sandy soil, and proves to be superior 
to the native varieties. 
COTTON. 
De Soto county, Miss—The cotton crop-was quite promising up to the first 
or middle of September, when it was attacked by the worms. The ravages of 
