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any other variety. In St. Joseph County, at the extreme northern end 
of the State, it is ten days earlier than other varieties. 
There are few favorable reports of experiments with this wheat in 
Iilinois. In Fulton County several experimenters report the quality fine 
and the quantity satisfactory ; and in a few other localities it does well. 
Some report a fair yield of flour, but of inferior quality. In all other 
States in which this wheat thrives ordinarily well the quality of its 
flour is classed as superior. 
In Lapeer County, Michigan, the yield of this wheat is reported at 
twenty-four busheis per acre, weighing sixty-five pounds per bushel. 
In Schoolcraft the yield, in 1868, was thirty-two bushels per acre, while 
other varieties did not exceed twenty-five on like soil. In Ingham 
County it succeeded very well in 1868, and has not since been reported. 
In Bay County it is said torust. In Oakland its yield last year was 
large, and quality excellent. In Hillsdale County, where it has been 
tested four years, it is claimed to be 100 per cent. better than the Tread- 
well wheat, considering the seed required, and yield per acre, and that 
itis not troubled by the wheat fly. It has proved valuable also in 
Marshall County. 
Few reports have come from Kansas concerning the Tappahannock 
wheat. It is claimed to be the best grown in Cherokee County, and a 
report of its cultivation this year in Pottawatomie County states the 
yield to be forty-two bushels per acre, and weight sixty-five pounds. 
The reports are few, also, from other Western and Southern States. 
In several counties in Iowa this wheat has failed on account of the 
severity of the winters, and sometimes from too late sowing. In Jack- 
son County several farmers report successful culture, and express the 
opinion that under favorable circumstances it will prove there a very 
profitable winter wheat. ; 
In Butte County, California, the Tappahannock continues to do well; 
and a similar report comes from Lassen County. 
In Kane County, Utah, the Tappahannock does well, even without 
irrigation, which is seldom the case in that region. It is two weeks 
earlier than the ordinary kinds, and is in great demand for seed. From 
San Pete and other localities the reports are similar. It is liable to 
smut in Box Elder County, a drawback which is obviated by thorough 
wet-liming and immediate drying, about one month before sowing. In 
Lane County twenty-seven pounds of seed on half an acre of stiff clay 
land, without manure, produced, in 1869, twenty-four bushels of good, 
merchantable wheat. 
In Weld County, Colorado, the Tappahannock, sown in February, 
yielded about thirty-five-fold. The Denver News recently reported the 
yield of four bushels sown upon four acres, irrigated twice, at one hun- 
dred and fifty bushels—thirty-seven and one-half bushels per acres. From 
the reports received it does not appear to yield more than some other 
varieties grown in the Territory. 
MEDITERRANEAN WHEAT. 
The Mediterranean wheat (both red and white) has been imported in 
small quantities several times, and distributed, since 1863. The impor- 
tations were from Marseilles, France, but the grain was grown on islands 
in the Mediterranean Sea. It has flourished remarkably in many sec- 
tions of this country, though not so widely as the Tappahannock. in 
some portions of Virginia it has done better than other varieties; as 
also in New York, West Virginia, Missouri, Mississippi, Maryland, 
Ohio, and California, proving most profitable in the last three named. 
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