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County, speakiDg of his crop of 48 bushels per acre, says : " Laud ad- 

 joining that on which this wheat was sown made 20 bushels per acre of 

 Alabama red wheat, sown in the same way." 



Several experiments in Missouri have resulted favorably. Yields of 

 30 and 33J^ bushels arc reported. In Franklin County said to be better 

 than " Golden Chaff," the hardiest wheat of that section. 



In Belknap County, New Hampshire, the yield was 30 bushels per 

 acre. In Cape May County, ISTew Jersey, yield 31J bushels per acre. 

 Was about one week earlier than other varieties. 



Keports from the Western States are not as numerous as was to be 

 anticipated from the quantity of grain distributed. Statements, how- 

 ever, have been received from a majority of them. In Illinois 26 bushels 

 per acre have been raised, a weight of 04 pounds per bushel noticed, and 

 the yield characterized as better than the common varieties. In Indiana 

 20, 25, and 27 bushels per acre, and thought to be the best yet intro- 

 duced to stand the severity of the winters. Ohio, 30 and 20 bushels ; 

 heads large; grain plump. Michigan, an experiment resulting in 32 

 bushels per acre — Barry County. In Iowa it stands the winter well, — 

 Washington County. Two reports from Kansas are not tavorable to 

 this wheat. A Mitchell County correspondent says it is not hardy 

 when the ground is exposed in winter to frosts and winds from the lack of 

 a covering of snow — the case in that State. 



TouzeUe. — A somewhat extended notice was given of this wheat in 

 the annual report for 1871, embracing experiments which clearly prove 

 the variety to be one of great excellence and adapted to those sec- 

 tions where winter- wheat is the more successful, but in which much 

 sturdiness of growth is not requisite. While it has succeeded in New 

 York, Pennsylvania, Indiana, and even in Michigan, it has, in a more 

 marked degree, proved valuable as an acquisition to the South. As de- 

 scribed, it is a beardless, white winter-wheat, classed, on account of its 

 native habitat, with Mediterranean. During the present year 300 bushels 

 of this wheat have been distributed. While experimenters have been 

 slow in reporting results, there seems to be no falling oft' or deteriora- 

 tion in the variety as far as heard from. The wheat has now been on 

 trial about three years. 



For experiment Mr. D. B. Alexander, of Culpeper County, Virginia, 

 sowed nine varieties of wheat, and found none equal to the Touzelle. 

 During three years of experiment this variety invariably ripened from 

 six to ten days earlier than any other. Another experimenter in the 

 same county states that last season, 1871-72, it yielded 50 bushels to 

 the acre, weighing 60 pounds per bushel. A correspondent considers 

 it the best wheat he has tried in Augusta County. Reports show yields, 

 in Amelia Countj^, 32 bushels per acre, when sown November 20 ; in 

 Albemarle County, 30 bushels. Yield in Delaware, 22 bushels per acre, 

 weighing 60 pounds per bushel. 



It is considered the largest and best grain-product in Esmeralda 

 County, Nevada. 



The experiments of J<Ir. Alexander are more at length given in the 

 agricultural columns of the New York World, of date of October!), 1872. 

 The statement is as follows : 



Mr. D. B. Alexaucler, of Culpeper, Virgiuia, forwarded samples of Touzelle wliito 

 vv iuter-wbeat, imported from France. He received the seed from the Department of 

 Ag-riculture iu 1869. Ho has tested it for three years, with complete success. Last 

 season it yielded 50 bushels to the acre, which was weighed in difterent lots at two 

 commission-houses in Culpeper, the return being from each GG pounds to the bushel. 

 It is very prolilic and remarkably hardy. It is an early variety and branches or stools 

 out splendidly He planted Touzelle 27tli of September, 1870, and it rii)eued Juno 1, 



