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County it did not do very well the first year of its trial. on account of 
wet weather, but faith in its ultimate success created a demand for the 
product saved, for seed. In Alexander, Washington County, both 
yield and quality are reported good. In Aroostook County it matured 
a week earlier than other spring wheat, yielded one-third more under 
the same conditions of culture, and was free from the weevil. In York 
County it yielded eighteen bushels per acre, four bushels more than 
other wheat. In Sagadahoc, also, it is a week earlier and yields twenty 
bushels per acre. In Penobscot the yield this year was twenty-two 
bushels per acre, and the variety is commended as very early and the 
best wheat ever seen there. ' 
In Carroll County, New Hampshire, it-yields on ordinary land, with 
the usual cultivation, about sixteen bushels per acre, and is “not trou- 
bled with mildew, blight, or weevil.” In Sullivan County, also, it does . 
very well. 
In Addison County, Vermont, it yields well and escapes the midge. . 
A correspondent states that if it continues to do as well as now, it will 
be as valuable to that section as was the Black Sea wheat. In Orleans 
County, on the Canadian line, it has proved early, hardy, and free from 
disease, and is commended as the best spring variety. 
In Hampden County, Massachusetts, the Arnautka is very thrifty. 
A farmer writes that he esteems it the best suited to that climate of any 
spring wheat in use, and thinks it may ultimately rank with the first 
class of winter wheats. In Middlesex County it is finer and larger than 
other varieties. 
No favorable reports are received from the other Eastern States, and 
from only Jefferson County in New York, where it is considered a val- 
uable acquisition. ‘ 
In Illinois, Wisconsin, Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa, the reports, 
though not numerous, indicate that the Arnautka is productive and 
valuable. In Nevada, Minnesota, and portions of Iowa, it is excep- 
tionally so, the yield, in some instances, being as high as sixty-fold. 
‘A Wabashaw (Minnesota) correspondent reports that thorough tests 
during four years prove it to be superior to any other spring wheat in 
the West, millers declaring its flour to be worth 25 per cent. more than 
that of the varieties in general cultivation. From Brown County it is 
reported the present year that the Arnautka has been grown by many 
farmers, and in every instance has yielded a heavy crop, averaging a 
bushel of wheat toa pound of seed. In Faribault County it has “proved 
a great yielder, and makes a large quantity of flour.” 
In Greene County, Wisconsin, the yield was double the quantity of 
the winter wheat and of good quality. 
Recent reports of cultivation of the Arnautka in 1868 and 1869, in 
Kossuth County, Iowa, state that, though both seasons were unfavora- 
ble for wheat, the yield was large and the grain superior. 
In Peoria County, Llinois, it is reported to make more and better 
flour than any other wheat. 
In Sedgwick County, Kansas, the yield has been at the rate of fifty 
bushels per acre the present year. Its introduction into Nebraska has 
been attended with profitable results. 
OATS. 
Hight varieties of oats new te this country have been introduced and 
distributed by the Department during the last five years, viz: Potato 
and New Brunswick oats, from Scotland, and White and Biack Swedish, 
from Denmark, in 1865; Excelsior and Somerset, from England, and 
