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exposed situations, or on wet soil, as the climate is not too severe for it 
under ordinary circumstances. In some localities it is pronounced the 
best wheat known. 
A correspondent in Highland County, Ohio, states that one farmer 
has five acres sown to Tappabannock wheat this fall, the seed being the 
product of a package sent him two yearsago. In Ashland County it 
is hardy, stands up remarkably well, the grain is superior, and weighs, 
when very clean, sixty-five pounds per bushel. In Erie it ripens early, 
does not lodge, and is believed to be “ just the thing” for that sgetion. In 
Butler County a yield of sixty-six-fold and of superior quality is reported, 
and entire satisfaction is expressed. In Perry, as reported by the 
secretary of the agricultural society, it makes a greater yield of flour, 
and of better quality, than any wheat ever grown in the county. In 
Auglaize it is stated to be the finest and earliest variety known there, 
and sold, in the autumn of 1868, for’ $4 per bushel for seed. In Meigs 
and Logan Counties it is equally a favorite. A farmer in Union County 
states that he received from the Department, in 1868, one pound of the 
Tappahannock wheat, which he sowed in drills on limestone-gravel land, 
clover sod. It did well, and the next season he sowed the product with 
field-drill on the same kind of land, harvesting about eight bushels. 
The next season he sowed with field-drill one and one-half bushel to 
the acre, on very strong limestone-gravel land, clover sod, well manured 
with barnyard manure, and obtained thirty-six bushels of beautiful, 
plump, white wheat to the acre. He reports the Tappahannock about 
ten days earlier than any other variety in that section. . 
In Kentucky this variety has proved valuable. In Harrison County 
the quality is reported excellent, and the yield bas been as high as sixty- 
seven-fold on well-prepared ground. In Russell it ripens earlier and 
produces better grain than any other variety raised in the county. In 
Lebanon, Marion County, in 1869, where the seed was drilled in on well- 
prepared ground, the yield was seventy-two-fold of clean wheat, while 
other wheat on adjoining land, similarly treated, returned only eighteen- 
fold. The Tappahannock was also the earliest variety to mature. In 
Garrard County the yield in 1869 is reported, in one instance, at a little 
more than sixteen bushels per acre, of excellent quality. In Edmonson 
the yield was twenty-one bushels to one of seed, on old ground, which 
was considered an extraordinary yield. In Scott County the yield was 
thirty-fold, and the ripeniug ten days earlier than other varieties. In 
Bourbon it succeeds admirably, and ripens earlier than other wheat. 
Similar reports come from Clinton, Owsley, Scott, Hopkins, Boone, and 
Livingston Counties. 
The Tappahannock has proved a profitable contribution to agriculture 
in Tennessee. A Coffee County correspondent thinks it superior to all 
other varieties in the State; its vigorous growth, hardiness, early ma- 
turity, freedom from smut and rust, and superior quality and yield of: 
flour, all commending it as the most desirable. In Perry County, where 
this wheat was drilled in at the rate of one peck per acre, on rich and 
well-drained clay soil, the yield was at the rate of fifty-two bushels 
per acre, weighing sixty-four pounds pe¢r bushel. Sown broadcast, one 
bushel per acre, and lightly plowed in, the yield was thirty-eight bushels 
per acre, and weight sixty and one-half pounds per bushel. On similar 
soil, with like cultivation, but with two bushels of seed per acre, the 
yield was only fifteen bushels per acre, and weight fifty-eight and one- 
fourth pounds per bushel. These experiments were made upon one 
farm. The advantage of light seeding, with this wheat, is obvious, 
and is supported by the opinions of cultivators in Maryland and other 
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