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the Patent Office, is a most beautiful wheat ; hardy, produc 

 tive, and making the finest quality of flour and bread. Also, 

 another variety of white wheat, yielding fifty-seven pounds of 

 fine flour to the bushel. 



Samples of all the above varieties, both in the straw, and the 

 grain in bottles, were exhibited during his lecture, which fully 

 sustained his positions in regard to the adaptation of our New 

 England soil and climate to the profitable production of winter 

 wheat. He usually carries four bushels of his wheat to mill, 

 to make a barrel of flour, and pays for the grinding some thirty 

 cents; and he finds a material difference between this, and 

 handing over a ten dollar bill, or giving his note for that amount 

 for a barrel of Milwaukie or Chicago flour. 



To insure success in raising winter wheat in New Hamp 

 shire, the land must be dry, in good heart, and well-worked. 

 The seed should be sown from the 20th of August to the 5th 

 of September. It should be thus early sown to have it get 

 well-rooted before winter, and to hasten its maturity, so as to 

 escape the midge. A difference of five or ten days in the 

 blossoming of a field of wheat frequently makes the difference 

 between a very good, and a very poor crop. This is owing to 

 the midge. He has, by sowing early, escaped loss from the 

 midge and rust, while some of his neighbors, who have delayed 

 sowing till after their corn was harvested, have suffered by 

 winter-kill, midge, and rust. 



Learning that Col. Cate, of Northfield, N". H., had been very 

 successful in growing winter wheat for a number of years, 

 Mr. B. wrote to him upon the subject in December last. He 

 read an extract from the Col.'s letter, which is as follows : 



"I commenced the cultivation of winter wheat in the year 

 1850, and have continued it without interruption up to the 

 present time. The first year I sowed one bushel of the ; white- 

 bald winter wheat,' on the 6th day of September of that year, 

 on land which had grown a crop of corn the same season. The 

 land had been tolerably well manured in the spring; but 

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