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from such straw does not fully mature. It will grow as soon as any other, but grain of 

 superior quality is seldom obtained from such seed. All small or imperfect seed should be 

 sifted out and nothing but the best sown. Twenty-four hours before the wheat is sown it 

 should be washed in a concentrated brine. After draining a few minutes mix with each bushel 

 two quarts of newly slacked lime, and then sow one and one fourth bushels of seed to the acre. 



The above is my course of operation. My average crop for several years past has been over 

 twenty bushels per acre of very superior quality, mostly sold lor seed ; the past season being over 

 1100 bushels. My price has uniformly been twenty-five cents over the millers. One great difficulty 

 in the way of farmers improving their wheat crops is the sowing of poor grain mixed with other 

 seeds. While at the State Fair at Poughkeepsie, in 1844, I saw several barrels of wheat of 

 different varieties all mixed with so much cockle and chess that a Wheatland miller would not 

 take such for flouring as first quality. The man that had it said it was sent to him from 

 Western New York for seed, and he was trying to sell it as such. As long as such seed is sown 

 we shall have those farmers that believe wheat will degenerate into chess. 



In selecting the best Winter variety, I will name the ones that I believe will do best on the 

 different soils where wheat is sown. There are some varieties that succeed better on some soils 

 than others. If the soil is rich clay loam it is important to sow a small and early variety, 

 as the Kentucky white, better known as Hutchinson wheat ; the Mediterranean, or the Wheatland 

 red. If the soil be a sandy or gravelly loam the improved white Flint, old Genessee red chaff, bold 

 Saul's wheat, and Flint. In selecting the variety that will do best on all soils I am confident 

 that the white Flint stands first for quantity, producing more flour of superior quality than 

 any other of nearly forty different varieties that I have had under cultivation. I know of no 

 Spring variety that will equal the Winter kinds where they succeed well. In some sections 

 of the country none but Spring varieties will succeed. The Black Sea, red chaff and bearded, 

 are the hardiest and most productive of any of the Spring varieties of good quality. The 

 Tea wheat is a very beautiful Spring wheat, with white chaff and a bald white berry, but it 

 is not as productive as the Black Sea ; the quality is, however, much superior. 



I will endeavor to arrange a case of wheat specimens this season for the Association. I have 

 about forty different varieties of wheat now under cultivation, from which I can arrange one. 



