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any great amount by the midge, although his own spring 

 wheat, and that of his neighbors, has been nearly ruined by that 

 insect. As an illustration of this, he stated that, in 185T he 

 harvested twenty-eight bushels of prime winter wheat from 

 seven pecks sowing of the previous autumn. From a bushel 

 of spring wheat, sown in May, 1857, he harvested but seven 

 pecks, and of a very poor quality at that. His crops have 

 averaged about fifteen bushels to the bushel of seed sown; 

 many of the farmers in his vicinity have raised twenty bushels, 

 and over, from the bushel of seed sown ; and one farmer raised 

 on "hill-land" last season, twenty-two bushels from a bushel of 

 seed, while another, on a low-lying farm, grew ninety-one bushels 

 from four and a half bushels of seed. These "out west " might 

 not be considered very great crops, but they are more than 

 twice as large as those of spring wheat, in his section of New 

 Hampshire, have averaged of late years. 



He has been experimenting for several years with a great 

 variety of Patent Office wheats. Out of the number only four 

 varieties have been found adapted to his place. Of these the 

 " early Japan," the original of which was brought from Japan 

 by the late Commodore Perry, is a red wheat, some ten 

 days earlier than any other variety he has grown, its earliness 

 putting it beyond injury from the midge. The "Tuscan wheat," 

 from Michigan, which was distributed by the Patent Office, 

 was accompanied by a certificate from several Michigan farmers, 

 which showed that it had been grown there for seven years, 

 and had never been known to rust. It is a large-grained, 

 flinty variety, yielding fifty pounds A No. 1 flour to the bushel. 

 The " Early Noe," the original seed of which was procured 

 from France, has the merit of early maturity, as it was said to 

 be ten days earlier than any other grown in the dominions of 

 Napoleon. With Mr. B. it has not proved earlier than his 

 other varieties. It has a good-sized kernel, and very stiif, 

 white straw, and promises to be a variety worthy of general 

 cultivation. General Harmon's "improved white flint," from 



