270 THE WHEAT CULTURIST. 



the frosts of winter on wheat that was sowed at differ- 

 ent periods, and which had attained greater growth in 

 one instance than in the other. He says : " During the 

 winter, the first or September sowing of the t premium 

 white Mediterranean wheat withstood the winter very 

 badly, and during the severe frost in the month of Jan- 

 uary, it was entirely killed ; whereas the same wheat 

 sown in October withstood the winter much better than 

 the red bearded Mediterranean wheat, kept ahead the 

 whole season, and was harvested on the 27th of June. 

 This seems to be a wheat well adapted to this climate, 

 large berry, well filled and thin skinned ; produced 

 forty-eight bushels per acre. The red bearded Mediter- 

 ranean wheat sown in October did not stand the severe 

 frost so well as the same kind sown in September, show- 

 ing that the best period for sowing the red bearded 

 Mediterranean wheat is September, and for the premium 

 white Mediterranean, from Port Mahon, is October. 

 The Tappahannock wheat has been the earliest of all 

 the varieties experimented with, although it does not 

 seem to be so productive as some of the other kinds ; 

 still the fine quality of the grain, and its earliness, is 

 very much to be regarded, as an early variety is much 

 less liable to disease and other contingencies." 



SOWING SPRING WHEAT EARLY vs. LATE. 



I have observed, for many years past, that wheat-grow- 

 ing farmers seem to be about equally divided, touching the 

 best time to sow spring wheat. A part of our farmers 

 contend that the seed should be put in very early in the 

 spring, even before the growing season has really com- 

 menced. And if the soil is not sufficiently dry, plough 



