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ripens late, and subject to rust. Although branching, it is 

 not productive. There is a winter variety also. Rock 

 Wheat, from Spain. Chaff white, bearded, berry red and 

 long, bran thick, flour of fair quality, hardy, shows small, 

 well adapted for new lands and late sowing. Mack 

 Bearded. Long cultivated in New York stem largo, 

 heavy head, berry large and red, beard very long and stiff, 

 produces flour well. Red Bearded, English. Chaff red, 

 bearded, beards standing out, berry white, weighs from 

 sixty to sixty-two pounds. Scotch Wheat. A large white 

 wheat, berry and straw large. 



Spring wheat does w r ell on soils which heave and throw 

 out winter wheat. It is deemed a good policy to sow some 

 spring wheat every year, that, if the winter wheat fails, a 

 crop may still be on hand. 



An account of the best varieties of winter wheat, we 

 extract from the Western Farmer and Gardener : 



&quot; WHITE FLINT. A winter wheat, very white chaff, with 

 stood Hessian fly well, has yielded fifty-four bushels to the 

 acre, weighing from sixty-three to sixty-seven pounds per 

 bushel. Improved White Flint. This from early selection 

 from the first. &quot;White Provence, from France. A white 

 wheat shows small heads, well filled and large. Old Red 

 Chaff. White wheat, old subject to fly. Kentucky, 

 White Bearded. White wheat, sometimes called Cana 

 dian Flint early, good for clay soils. Indiana Wheat. 

 White wheat berry white and large, ripens early, not so 

 flinty as the White Flint, good flour, valuable for clayey 

 soils. Velvet Beard, or Crate Wheat. White wheat 

 English variety, chaff reddish, berry large and red, straw 

 large and long, heads long and well filled, beard very stiff, 

 flour yellowish. Soule s Wheat. A mixed variety, heads 

 large, berry white, not very hardy. Beaver Dam. Old 

 variety, berry red, flour yellowish, ripens late. Eclipse. 

 English, not hardy. Virginia W/iite May, from Virginia. 

 Winter, good flour, chaff white, Wheatland Wtieat, from 



