48 pounds of superior flour. This year it weighs 63 pounds 

 per bushel, making 47J pounds of flour per bushel, of as 

 good quality as the best western flour, which is worth ten 

 dollars per barrel here at the present time. Four and one- 

 quarter bushels will make a barrel of extra flour, thus ma- 

 king the wheat worth a trifle over $2,33 per bushel, for the 

 coarse flour and bran are worth more than I pa} 7 per bar- 

 rel for flouring, viz: twenty-five cents per barrel. From 

 the foregoing data, our northern farmers can judge wheth- 

 er it is better to raise wheat for family use, or raise other 

 crops and purchase western flour." 



In addition to this I would say, that Gen. Harmon 

 went into his barn when there was a brisk wind, opened 

 the main doors on both sides, threw his wheat against the 

 wind, and the largest kernels would go fartherest. These 

 were gathered up and sown. The following year he re- 

 peated the process. In a few years he secured the improv- 

 ed ''Flint Wheat," which yielded 45 bushels per acre, and 

 made 48 pounds of superfine flour from ,a bushel of wheat. 

 One bushel of this wheat he claimed would go as far in 

 sowing as 1J bushels of common wheat. A quantitv of 

 this was sent to the Patent Office at Washington, and dis- 

 tributed through the country. It was finally destroyed by 

 the midge and lost to the farmers. 



SELECTION OF SEED. 



The experiments of Maj. F. F. Hallett, of Manor Farm, 

 Kemptown, England, in the selection and planting of seed 

 have attracted much attention among agriculturists in that 

 country. In a paper read by him before the Midland Far- 

 mer's Club, at Birmingham, June 4, 1874, he says: 



"The plan of selection which I pursue is as follows: 

 A grain produces a plant consisting of many ears. I plant 

 the grain from these ears in such a manner that each ear 

 occupies a row by itself, each of its grain occupying a hole 

 in this row, the holes being twelve inches apart every way. 

 At harvest, after the most careful study and comparison of 



