74 THE WHEAT CULTUKIST. 



oi^e acre ; but what he did have &quot; was &quot; not were 

 large enough to fill a half-bushel measure. As he was 

 a man of truth, a person was sent to see his cabbages. 

 He had one cabbage in his garden, and only one ! ! By 

 an arithmetical calculation, it was found that, as there 

 are 272J square feet in one square rod, if one large head 

 would occupy only four square feet, 10,890 cabbages 

 would stand on one acre. So the man could not be ac 

 cused of stating an untruth. 



Farmers who have seed wheat to sell will frequently 

 state that their seed grain weighs so many pounds per 

 bushel, or that so many bushels grew on one acre ; all 

 of which may be true. But measures often vary in size. 

 Scales sometimes weigh too many pounds in a hundred. 

 And, besides all this, if a variety of wheat does weigh 

 66 Ibs. per sealed bushel, on John Smith s farm, his 

 neighbor, near by, or remote, cannot expect to secure an 

 equal yield, unless his soil and cultivation are both fully 

 equal to John Smith s. 



I make these suggestions that beginners need not ex 

 pect to grow a heavy crop of grain on inferior land, 

 when they have paid an enormous price for celebrated 

 seed. 



HARD, SOFT, AND POLISH WHEATS. 



Some botanists have divided wheats into different 

 species, from some marked peculiarity in their formation. 

 Others, considering that they mostly form hybrids when 

 mixed in the sowing, and that their peculiarities vary 

 with the soil and climate, have looked upon all the cul 

 tivated wheats as mere varieties. There are, however, 

 three principal varieties, so different in appearance that 



