156 AGRICULTURAL REPORT. é 
Tabular statement showing the quantity and kinds of seeds issued froin the seed division of the 
Department of Agriculture during the year ending December 31, 1870. 
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Vegetables, 149 varieties ...........--- packages. . 63, 047 | 57,973 | 61, 483 | 7,960 | 43,114 233, 577 
Flowers, 53 varietics ...-.....--.....2--.- dost. 22, 410 Cit) Bare EF Peer 19, 255 41,7 
Field cereals : | 
Winter wheat, 5 varieties .............. dozt=. | 13,069 | 2, 804 LMS A>. 2, 210 18, 104 
Winteriye, Uvanlety.-+------22---..<-- 0.22 2-5 ea | G10 Dee ee ee 231 3, 088 
Oats, 4 varieties . - | 2, 888 | 40 | 1, G77 10, 561 
Barley, 3 varieties. | 49 | 634 6, 632 
Worm Ml VATICLICS ac aeeccs-22-cc-+cnee ee do 316 316 
Textiles : 
Hemp, 3 varieties } 131 187 
Oh RS ee ee eee lo j 110 116 
Telit cg eee eS a do | 391 441 
Other seeds for field culture: 
Mmurmips, Jivarieties =... 62555522 --5206<< GOsasee- 4°325'| 20405)" ASOR0NIRe oo 363 7, 808 
MOVACTO. T VATICIMCS,.<- 52 -«nesas--50s Clesaee= Q1, 213 250. OTS | Case eae 1, 520 30, 258 
porghnm, 4*varieties 2). 22-2. 0c2-cs25e dors 2e Aa eoseeee LO eee 276 340 
Clover, EAT OLLOG ae oe aa ees gos--=22 95 4 a eee = 621 725 
SOROS NOTANU Be: ener Uae see eae eee cas 3 dose 2A [oS ete ee ee eee Ss 46 4R 
CITES 9 Cp CL ee AA ae TI ee ee ae 192 192 
RIGO FS WITIOUOS. 452: aioe ns wits eee FS Saal Bare eael eee ees aes clad lomoren oe 12 12 
Sugar beets, BD VATICLICS se-aco len eceeces ote 42 63 2 Se ee 203 320 
J ute, 2 2 varieties Se a a ee a ee Ss GO PAA Pesaran loas.te oe alooes seetlleeeeeee 453 453 
Rye erass, 2 varieties -....s02.2.s-ccce do: 512 130 BS | Reeae 203 1, 378 
Tree seeds, 95 WALIGUICN oe eed tes oee lle 5 Fees ab StI As le RR re WE os 2 2,110 2,110 
ROL Ale. See eee Ma Tea ra gM hes 133, 043 | 71,865 | 71,400 | 7,960 | 74,123 | 258, 391 
TAPPAHANNOCK WHEAT. 
The Tappahannock wheat, a winter variety, originating in Virginia, 
and first distributed and brought into general cultivation by this De- 
partment, is still a very general favorite. It is remarkable for product- 
iveness, early maturity, and consequent exemption from many of the 
evils attending wheat culture, and for the excellent quality of its flour, 
and is suited to a wide extent of country. Mr. Elisha O. Angell, of Man- 
ton, Providence County, Rhode Island, writes to the Commissioner that 
he has for two years sown the Tappahannock wheat, received from the 
Department through the Rhode Island Agricultural Society, and finds it 
an excellent grain, well adapted to the Northern States, hardy and free 
from blast or rust. He exhibited some of it at the N ew England and 
New Hampshire fair in September last, and received the first premium. 
He remarks that wheat which can be erown in Rhode Island near the 
sea-Shore with success, can be grown in almost any part of the country. 
In Onondaga County, New York, this wheat is fifteen days earlier 
than any other variety. A farmer in Cayuga County reports that on 
common soil, without extra manure or cultivation, it grew well, endured 
the winter well, the heads were large, and the kernel was plump, and 
from its earliness escaped both rust and weevil; while the Soules wheai, 
under like conditions of culture, was ten days later, and rusted badly, 
A correspondent in Madison County writes that he received from the 
Department, four years since, a few bags of Tappahannock wheat, and 
from that seed the variety is now extensively grown, and has proved a 
valuable acquisition in his section. In Ontario County it is reported to 
be a valuable variety, being nearly two weeks earlier than other wheat, 
