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States. In Hawkins County the yield was ninety-fold, and, from the 
peck of seed sent by the Department in 1866, crops of two to ten acres, 
on eight or-ten farms, have been raised the present year. in Greene 
County this wheat was the principal variety raised in 1869.. Complaint 
is made of its liability to smut in that section, and a successful pre- 
ventive is reported to be a solution of bluestone used upon the seed. 
In Sullivan it excels all other varieties, and in Giles County it is reported 
to be “a decided favorite.” 
From North and South Carolina a smaller number of reports of ex- 
‘periments has been received than from some of the Southern States, but 
these are in most cases highly commendatory of the Tappahannock 
‘wheat. In Franklin County, North Carolina, ‘the yield is thirty-fold, 
and in Surry, on upland clay, abou‘ twenty-five-fold. In Bertie County, 
without extra care in preparing the ground, it yielded, in 1869, forty-one 
bushels for one of seed, and in Harnett thirty-two. In Rowa r the yield 
was thirty-one, and in Montgomery thirty-two-fold. In Lenoir, Stokes, 
Tredell, Chowan, and Columbus, it proved early and yielded better than 
the common kinds. In each of these counties it is commended as a 
valuable acquisition, the grain being excellent in quality, and snited to 
the soil and climate. In Craven County the yield was greater than that 
of wheat usually sown, and the quality fine. One correspondent notes 
the growth of forty stems, with good heads, from one kernel, the wheat 
spreading more than any before seen by him. In Orange County the 
yield was twenty-fold the’ present year on tobacco land, fifteen days 
earlier than other varieties, and the grain excellent. Hon. Join Pool, 
writing from Pasquotank County, concerning his crop of the present 
year, states that ke sowed six bushels on land that would produce 
twenty-five bushels of corn to the acre. The product was seventy-five 
bushels; weight, fifty-nine and oue- half pounds to the bushel. This he 
Says is greater than that of any other wheat iu his section, and greatly 
superior in quality. He pronounces the Tappahannock the best wheat 
for his region that he has ever seen. In Randolph County the yield is 
not stated to be greatly superior in ‘quantity to other varieties, but the 
weight, in some instances, is sixty-seven pounds per bushel. 
The reports from South Carolina are similar to those from North Caro- 
lina concerning the value of this wheat, confirming the favorable re- 
ports made last year. Correspondents in Newberry and Union Counties 
express decided preference for the Tappahannock over other varieties. 
In Carroll County, Georgia, the yield of Tappahannock wheat, in one 
instance, was one hundred- fold, but this is, of course, exceptional. In 
Dawson County, cultivated as wheat ordinarily is, the yield was thirty- 
five-fold. In Warren its yield was 50. per cent. more than that of other 
kinds, and better in quality. It is pronounced the best wheat in that 
section of country. In Johnson County, sowed in drills and manured 
with superphosphate of lime, it rusted badly, and was no earlier than 
some other varieties. In Clayton, Crawford, and Butts Counties, there 
is complaint of a little rust, but the yield and quality are generally 
stated to be excellent. In Clayton, with extra tillage, the yield was 
sixty-fold, and in. Butts thirty bushels per acre. In Polk, Gordon, and 
Hall Counties the yield and quality are better than with the common 
varieties; and a Carroll County correspondent thinks it the best wheat 
*-ever introduced into the county, his crop weighing sixty-five pounds to 
the bushel, and making fifty-four pounds of flour, the best he ever used. 
In Gilmer "County the yield is reported one- third more than that of the 
common kinds on the same land. 
Returns from Clay County, Alabama, confirm the faverablé reports 
