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Several correspondents of the Departmant acted upon 

 these suggestions, and reported favorable results. One, in 

 Rock County, Wisconsin, cultivated ten acres, planted in 

 drills fourteen inches apart, with two pecks of seed per 

 acre, with success so marked as to induce him to put in 

 seventeen acres more. 



Mr. R. A. Gilpin, of West Chester, Pa., in I860, planted 

 one acre with three pecks of seed in drills twenty inches 

 apart, and drilled the remainder of the field at intervals of 

 ten inches. In the spring, when the ground had become suf- 

 ficiently dry, a small garden hoe was run between the rows, 

 working three inches deep. " The wheat took a rapid 

 start, and outgrew the rest of the field. As the season ad- 

 vanced it grew tall and strong, and no amount of wind or 

 rain had any effect to lay it down. When the heads 

 formed, their greater length was apparent. It was back- 

 ward in ripening, and the rest of the field was cut and 

 hauled in before this was ripe." But the single acre yield- 

 ed twenty-three bushels, while the remainder of the field 

 produced only nine bushels per acre. Thus a single hoeing 

 produced fourteen bushels on an acre, or 155 per cent, in- 

 crease, worth at the current value $30, besides saving one- 

 half the value of the seed. A large number of results 

 like these, definite and particular, in varied circumstances 

 of soil, climate, and condition, would test the pecuniary 

 advantage of horse-hoeing wheat" 



lhave increased the length from an inch to an inch 

 and a half, nearly doubled the number of kernels in a head, 

 and added to the tillering over five fold. I have reduced 

 the seed required per acre from one and one-half bushels 

 to three pecks per acre. I have raised Clawson wheat 

 that has weighed 64J pounds to the bushel, while the 

 heaviest red wheat raised the same season, raised at the 

 Ohio experimental station, weighed but 64 pounds per 

 bushel. These are positive improvements. The flour 



