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THE WHEAT CULTURIST. 



soil, the crop will not fail, so long as the seed is selected 

 with proper care from harvest to harvest. 



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Red Chaff Bald Wheat. 



the Transactions of the New York State Agricul- 

 tural Society for 1842, Rawson Harmon 

 writes thus about this kind of wheat : 



" This variety was w T ell adapted to the soil 

 in the Genesee Valley of Western New 

 York. In 1803, Peter ShefTer harvested 

 forty acres of this kind of wheat on the 

 Genesee Flats, that produced sixty and a 

 half bushels of grain per acre. The same 

 season, this variety, sowm on the oak open- 

 ings in this vicinity, was nearly destroyed 

 by the Hessian fly. Its long and well-filled 

 heads, the white and beautiful berries, gave 

 it the preference over other varieties for 

 more than twenty years ; and some farmers 

 in this vicinity [Western New York] con- 

 tinue its cultivation. The bran of the 

 grain is thin ; and it yields flour of supe- 

 rior quality. In 1833 I harvested sixty- 

 seven bushels from one bushel of sowing, 

 which grew on one acre and one-fourth 

 of land." 



I have copied this paragraph for the 

 purpose of showing what a profitable and 

 excellent variety of grain this " Bald 

 Wheat " was, when the country was com- 

 paratively new ; and before rust, the 



rtieat. midge, and the fly injured the growing grain. 



