412 AGRICULTUEAL REPORT. 



;i severe winter better tliaii auy other kind. Tlie same bardiuess of 

 growtli is reported from the county of Montgomery. Eeports from six 

 counties, in each case indicate superiority of yield, earliness of maturity, 

 excellence of quality and of weight to the wheat-standard of the sec- 

 tion, in one case GG pounds having been reached, and in another GGJ 

 per bushel. 



From Virginia forty experiments have been reported, from nearly as 

 many counties. Q^he accounts are all favorable. The lowest reported 

 yield is 15 bushels per acre, while the average rate touches 30 bushels. 

 Several yields above 40 bushels are reported, one of CGg bushels. In 

 Scott County it is pronounced to be almost 100 per cent, better than the 

 common varieties. A farmer in Botetourt County reports from 3J 

 pounds sown the remarkable yield of 333 pounds. The weight of grain 

 has reached G8 pounds per bushel, and G4 pounds is not uncommon. 



Seventeen counties in North Carolina have made returns, showing 

 that where the proper conditions in sowing were observed great satis- 

 faction with the variety has resulted. In two cases only reports were 

 unfavorable, and these were consequent upon imusually late sowing, 

 2^"ovember 20 and February 21. Its adaptation to the soil and climate is 

 not questioned. In Burke County, yield 30 bushels per acre, weighing 

 65 pounds, superior in all respects to varieties usually grown. Mr. 

 Perry, of Davie County, fertilized with leached ashes and tobacco- 

 stalks, and harvested 13^ busliels per acre, weighing G2i pounds per 

 bushel, and says that the land would not have produced 3 bushels with- 

 out the fertilization. 



Success invariable, as far as reported in South Carolina. In Fairfield 

 County it yielded at the rate of IG bushels per acre, although sown on 

 very poor land. Pronounced hardy, and very productive for the climate. 



Reports received from eleven counties in Georgia : In Union County 

 better by 50 x)er cent, than varieties usually sown. Several yields of 

 25 bushels per acre are reported. Weight generally above GO pounds 

 and as high as G5 i^ounds per bushel. 



In Eandolph County, Alabama, yield 24 bushels per acre. 



To the wants of Texas this wheat seems to be particularly adapted. 

 Yields of 20, 35, and 50 bushels per acre are stated. AVithstands rust 

 better than other varieties. 



Eeports from three counties in Arkansas ; all favorable. An experi- 

 menter in Columbia County says : " This wheat is superior in every re- 

 spect to any I have seen in this country • ripens about the same time as 

 the common wheat." 



Eeturns from fourteen counties of Tennessee j all favorable. In the 

 majority of experiments in the fine wheat-growing region of this State, 

 this variety is characterized as among the most successful ever intro- 

 duced, in Davidson County the average production was rated at 40 

 bushels per acre, with careful attention. Yields, notwithstanding the 

 unpropitious season of 1871-'72, rarely fell below 20 bushels per acre. 

 In the county of Granger it escaped the midge by which other wheat, 

 including the Tappahauuock, was destroyed. In weight it reached G5 

 pounds. 



Is considered by a Braxton County, West Virginia, correspondent 

 well adapted to the climate and soil. In Jefferson County is pronounced 

 80 per cent, better than the common varieties in yield. 



Eeports from nine counties of Kentucky : Eated yields per acre, 20, 

 25, 30, 32, and 48 bushels. Weight, usually above 60 pounds per bushel, 

 and reaching 65 i^ounds. In the county of Ohio the crop gave fally 

 double the yield of the ordinarily good crop. Mr. H. Newell, Pulaski 



