160 AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 
made on the Tappahannock wheat last year, published in the Annual 
Report. In Hale County this wheat rusted, and in Coosa it did not do 
well. In De Kalb it produced a good crop, which brought 75 cents per 
bushel more than other wheat, for seeding. In Elmore County it is 
ciaimed to be the best raised. 
In Leake and Winston Counties, Mississippi, this wheat did well in 
1868, and in Jackson County, in 1869, it produced twenty-two bushels 
where other kinds returned only eight bushels per acre, and the grain 
was the best ever grown there. 
In Williamson, Grayson, Dallas, and Ellis Counties, Texas, it produces 
moderately well; but in Kendall, Lampasas, and Fannin Counties it 
has been affected by rust the present year. As the farmers of that 
State are anxious for some better variety of wheat than any they now 
cultivate, the resolution to test further the Tappahannock is expressed. 
In Bedford County, Florida, the yield of this wheat is stated to be 
forty-fold, and equal in quality to the seed furnished. Its introduction 
there has created much interest among farmers, and has led to a great 
demand for the wheat for seed. 
In Missouri this wheat appears to do better than in either of the Car- 
olinas or Alabama. Howard, Phelps, and Stoddard Counties were 
noticed as favorable locations for its growth in the Report of last year. 
To these may be added Butler, Cedar, Hickory, Marion, Miller, Scott, 
St. Louis, and Washington, from which reports have also been received. 
In Butler the yield, from seed sown broadcast, was over twenty-four- 
fold, and the grain ripened ten days earlier than other wheat. In Cedar 
it thrives exceedingly well; in Hickory, from which the largest number 
of reports is received, it is preferred to any other for quality and early 
maturity ; and in Marion it gives an average yield of thirty-five bushels 
per acre, and ripens with the Early May wheat, to which it is superior. 
In Miller and Scott Counties the yield is thirty bushels per aere, of the 
best quality. In St. Louis County it is called the best Variety ever in- 
troduced into the State. In Washington it is said to be “admirably 
adapted to the soil and climate of Southeast Missouri.” In Stoddard 
it is reported to yield thirty-five bushels per acre from less than a bushel 
(usually about three pecks) of seed to the acre. 
In Western Arkansas this wheat yields, with good cultivation, twenty- 
five to thirty-five-fold, of excellent quality. In Yell County, sown 
beside a native variety and treated similarly, it returned twenty fold, 
superior grain, while the other gave but sixteen. Crawford County 
reports the yield and quality superior to those of the common kinds; 
but in Montgomery it is later than the Early May, and affected with 
rast. In Southern Arkansas it succeeds well, and is earlier than most 
kinds sown there. The yield is not so great as reported in Missouri, 
but the quality of the grain is stated to be uniformly superior to all 
other varieties grown. 
Reports of the successful trials of this wheat in five counties in Indi- 
ana were published in the Annual Report of this Department for 1869. 
In those it was stated to be ‘so early as to escape rust, except in Wash- 
ington County, in the southern part of the State. Six ether counties, 
mostly in or near the western border of the State, have reported. 
The average yield is over twenty-five-fold and the quality almost uni- 
formly excellent. In Harrison County the millers are reported as offer- 
ing 30 cents per bushel more for it than for other wheat, on account of 
its greater yield of flour and its quality; and in Vigo County it took 
the premium at the fair, a fact reported more frequently of this than of 
