6 AMERICAN WHEAT AND CORN. 



Grown by Peter L. J. Cogan, Addison, Webster County, West Virginia. 



1846. Early Amber. 



Crop of 1883. Soil a loam with clay subsoil ; no fertilizers ; grain sown on com 

 stubble and plowed in with shovel-plow. Yield : 10 or 12 bushels per acre. 



Grown by Jacob W. Wharton, Forney, Cherokee County, Alabama. 



1847. Dallas. 



Crop of 1883. Soil an upland^gravelly ridge; no fertilizer. The soil had been 

 in cotton the previous year and the cotton was manured with a compost of 

 phosphate, stable manure, and cotton-seed at the rate of 300 to 400 pounds 

 per acre. The seed was put in as follows : A furrow was run under the cot- 

 ton stalks, plowing them out, and the seed being put in was turned under 

 with a horse-turner or sometimes a small scooter, plowing the land as 

 thoroughly as possible. Yield : 10 to 12 bushels per acre, weighing 60 pounds 

 per bushel. 



1848. Dallas. 



Crop of 1883. Like the previous sample, but grown in a valley on loam, not so 

 gravelly, between a gray and red in color. Yield : The same. 



Grown by H. W. Gibbins, Hot Springs, Garland County, Arkansas. 



1849. Eed Mediterranean. 



Crop of 1883; soil, clay; no fertilizer; ground turned with a two-horse plow j 

 wheat sowed broadcast and harrowed in ; yield, 5 bushels, weighing 50 

 pounds. 



Grown by J. P. Hooke, Maryville, Blount County, Tennessee. 



1850. (Name lost.) 



Crop of 1883 ; soil, a light clay ; no fertilizer, the soil having been manured the 

 previous spring and cultivated in sweet potatoes. The wheat was sown 

 about October 20 and plowed in with a bull-tongue as soon as the potatoes 

 were dug. Yield, 6 bushels per acre, of very poor quality, worth 75 cents 

 per bushel. 



Grown by Elliott T.Brady, Buffalo Forge, Bockbridge County, Virginia. 



1851. White Mediterranean. 



Crop of 1883; soil, heavy red clay. Land was first well plowed and harrowed 

 twice with " Acme harrow," which thoroughly pulverized it. The seed was 

 sown (3 quarts) with a drill, at the rate of 1 bushels per acre and finally top- 

 dressed with well-rotted stable manure at the rate of 15 loads per acre. No 

 other cultivation. The land had previously been in wheat ; yield, 5f bush- 

 els from -fa acre, or at the rate of 92 bushels per acre, weighing 64 pounds ta 

 the bushel. ''This is a most extraordinary yield, but is strictly true in every 

 particular." 



1852. Australian. 



Crop of 1883. The origin of this specimen is unfortunately unknown. 



Grown by John Q. Barker, Indian Wells, Summers County, West Virginia. 



1853. Osterey. 



Crop of 1883 ; soil, gravelly ; no fertilizers ; second year of cultivation ; sown 

 broadcast on corn stubble and plowed in with a bull- tongue ; yield, 15 bush- 

 els per acre, weighing 62 pounds. 



From the Northern Pacific Railroad, Washington Territory. 



1854. Wheat. 



Distributed to guests of the Northern Pacific Railroad at a banquet at Walla 

 Walla, Washington Territory, October, 1883 ; crop of 1883. 



