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New Varieties of Wheat. — We have received from quite a number of esteemed 

 correspondents, samples of the best kind of wheat raised in their different localities, and 

 among them several new varieties. These we shall sow this fall, and shall be able to 

 report another season. Some of the letters received we give below, which will be found 

 interesting : 



White Blue Stem. — As I am a friend of improvement, I will comply with your request ia the 

 December number of the twelfth volume of th« Farmer, by sending you several heads of -wheat. 

 I am at a loss what variety to send, because I do not know what varieties you have, but I will send 

 the best we have. The kind I send you we call the Wfiite Blue Stem. The first we had of it we 

 cut in 1849, and it beata all the other kinds that we have. It generally looks poor in the fall and 

 early in the spring ; but after the weather gets warm, it outgrows all the other kinds for a while. 

 It grows rather taller than most other kinds, but does not lodge soon. Tlie straw is blue, if free from 

 rust The head looks slim, but it turns out well in threshing. The seed is full and white, if pure. 

 The rust does not hurt it so soon as most other varieties. This year the grain does not look so bright 

 as usual. The harvest has been later than usual, whioh we suppose is the reason of that. In a 

 few cases there have been as high aa forty and forty-five bushels to the acre raised in this valley. 

 There is more of this wheat raised in this and the two adjoining townships, than of all the other 

 varieties put together. I will also put some seed in the letter, so that if you have none, you can try 

 it ; and I wish you good success. Christian L. Holsinger. — Bedford Co., Pa. 



Australian Wheat. — Inclosed I send you a sample of the celebrated Australian Wheat. This is 

 of my own raising, from seed that I had sent to me last fall from my native place, (Tetauket, Long 

 Island.) I have about three acres, which, although sown nearly a month later than it should have 

 been, (Sept. 30th,) will prove a fair crop. I intend to sow ten acres of it this fall, which I have 

 reason to believe from what I have seen of it, will yield about thirty-five bushels per acre without 

 any extra pains being taken with it At leasts I am confident that it will yield a third more per 

 acre than any other kind of wheat now grown in the United States. I hope to be able to supply at 

 least a part of those of my neighbors who are anxious to get the seed ot it the coming year. 



The wheat crop in this vicinity is very good this season, and is now nearly all harvested and 

 secured, without a drop of rain. Other crops are somewhat retarded by drouth, but the rain to-day 

 is reviving. 



We have succeeded in raising some very beautiful flowers from those seeds you sent us. They 

 attract the attention of passers by, who often inquire where we got the seed, to which we are always 

 happy to answer, " They were presented us by the editors of the Genesee Farmer." D. D. Tooker. 

 — Napoleon, Mich. 



Washington Wheat. — 1 herewith inclose you a sample of wheat, known here as the Washington 

 Wheat, which agrees with the description of the Australian Wheat given in the Genesee Farmer. It 

 has been very much admired by farmers in this neighborhood. We raised on one acre, accurately 

 measured, and with nothing more than the ordinary barn-yard manure, forty-one and a half bushels 

 of clean wheat, weighing sixty-two pounds to the bushel. Its flour-making properties were very 

 much questioned ; but if it is not left to stand till it becomes too ripe, and with a miller that under- 

 s-tands his business, it will make as good bread as any other variety that is raised in this district 

 You will please, through the medium of your valuable paper, let us know whether it is the Austra- 

 lian or not Some of the ears contain over a hundred grains; one reached 120. Wm. W. Parkbr. 

 Parkersville, Chester Co., Pa. 



I herewith inclose a sample of a variety of wheat that I obtained a few years ago from a man that 

 moved from Columbiana county, Ohio, to tliis place at that time. It was from a crop grown on five 

 acres of land, the entire yield of Avhich ho said was over two hundred bushels. The inclosed speci- 

 men is of the third crop raised since I procured the seed, sown the latter part of September, on spring 

 wheat stubble land, and had but an indifferent chance. The marked phase of the variety appears to 

 be tall, coarse straw, with long heads, well filled with small red grains. Yields well, weighs well, 

 and makes very good flour. 



This section of country is not considered capable of producing good crops of wheat, and therefore 

 very little attention is paid to it Cheese-making is the great business with farmera here ; and the 

 hundreds of tons sent out of the country is, in my opinion, exhausting those great elements of vege 



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