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land plowed six inches deep produces twenty- 

 re bushels per acre, when plowed twelve inches 

 sep it will produce one hundred bushels per acre ! 

 Here is another statement, on the next page to 

 e above, which will surprise our readers in Upper 

 anada, than whom there are no better farmers or 

 ore successful wheat-growers on the continent: 

 That portion of Canada, which is included in the 

 heat region, is no longer profitably cultivated with 

 heat, and has fallen off in wheat production from 

 !,981,244 bushels to 942,835 bushels in a year. 

 ids has curtailed the product of the crop in the 

 heat-growing region immensely, and. Canada may 

 left out 0f the wheat-region.'''' 

 Prof. Jous Wilson, in a lecture, last year, deliv- 

 ed before tlie Society of Arts, tells a very differ- 

 it story. He says : " In 1851 the gross amount 

 wheat grown [in Canada] was 16,202,272 bushels, 

 owing an increase of four hundred per cent, dur- 

 g the ten previous years." " These," he continues, 

 \vere the statistics of 1851 ; since then the country 

 IS been advancing at even a more rapid rate. In 

 i56 the gross wheat produce amounted to 26,555,- 

 ;4 bushels, showing an increase of over ten million 

 ishels, which is equal to 64 per cent, in the five 

 sars." 



This chapter is rich in such statements as the 

 )Ove; but we can not hnger. It closes with two 

 iges of statistics taken from the Cyclopedia of 

 ommerce — or at least they are given there ; for we 

 i,n not say but it, too, may have copied them with- 

 it credit. 



The next chapter is headed the "Culture of 

 heat.' It might have been more appropriately 

 ;aded, "Nothing in Particular — from various 

 ithors." There is not a word said about the 

 ilture of wheat in the whole chapter. 

 The next chapter is on the "Exhaustion of Soils," 

 Icen entire from Liebig's Letters on Modern Agri- 

 ilture. Then follows an account of the Rev. J. 

 aiTn's method of cultivating wheat, taken, with- 

 it credit, from Morton's Cyclopedia of Agricul- 

 ire, (vol. 2, page 1147). 



The next chapter is on the "Management of 

 dUs." It is made up of extracts from Tull, Salis- 

 JEY, Mapes, Stephexs, and Madden. It also 

 )ntains a cut and short description of Orosskill's 

 lod-Orumber, taken from the Ohio Cultivator. 

 his is one of the most useful things in the book, 

 here is also an elaborate puff and flaming illustra- 

 on of the " Columbus Double Plow, Gill's Patent, 

 855." 



Tlie heading of the next chapter is the "Improve- 

 lent of Soils"; but this gives a very faint idea of 

 le misceUaneoas nature of the chapter. 



The next two chapters are on the varieties of wheat, 

 followed by a chapter on the diseases and enemies of 

 wheat. They are classed as follows: "Terrestrial, 

 Atmospheric, Agricultural, and Constitutional." 



The next chapter is on "Animal Parasites affect- 

 ing the Wheat." Of the wheat midge it is said: 

 "Omitting the culture of wheat throughout an 

 infected district for one or two years, and cultivat- 

 ing instead some other crops, is a safe and certain 

 remedy." We believe the experience of farmers in 

 New England does not sustain this assertion. 



We are not given to verbal criticism, or we should 

 question the correctness of the term "animal para- 

 sites," as applied to insects affecting plants. 



The book closes with a chapter on the "History, 

 Culture and Varieties of Indian Corn." A portion 

 of this is taken from the Genesee Farmer, without 

 credit, though other portions of the same article 

 are credited. Thus ends this voluminous treatise 

 on the "Wheat Plant." The importance of the 

 subject, and not the merits of the book, have in- 

 duced us to endeavor to give our readers some idea 

 of the character of the work. 



Thick vs. Thin Seeding of Oats. — In 1850, Mr. 

 GuLLAND, of Fifeshire, Scotland, offered a sweep- 

 stakes, that four bushels of oats, sown per Scotch 

 acre, in poor land, would yield a better produce 

 than eight bushels sown under similar conditions. 

 The late Mr. Hill, maintaining the contrary, ac- 

 cepted the sweepstakes, and a number of others 

 took up the same. Experiments were made by 

 Mr. Dingwall, of Ramornie, and Mr. BmsT, ©f 

 Hattonhill. In Mr. Buist's experiments — 



4 bushels' sown, yielded 28 bushels per acre, weighing S4 lbs, 

 per bushel. 



8 bushels sown, yielded 36 bushels per acre, weighing 34^ Its. 

 per bushel. 



In Mr. Dingwall's experiments — 



4 bushels sown, yielded 45 bushels per acre, weighing 38^ lbs. 

 per bushel. 



8 bushels sown, yielded 49 bushels per acre, weighing 89 lbs. 

 per bushel. 



Hard Milkers. — In answer to the inquiry of 

 " W.," in the September Genesee Farmer, allow me 

 to state my method. I use a lance or bougie of 

 steel, with a blade one and a half or two inches 

 long, one-fourth of an inch wide, and sharp on both 

 edges. The teat is held firmly by the hand, the 

 milk pressed into it, and tlie instrument inserted 

 in the orifice and puslied up to its shoulder, taking 

 care to have the blade follow the milk channel. 

 The regular and constant milking of the cow will 

 keep the channel open after it is thus widened ; bat 

 if it should show symptoms of closing up, it will 

 be necessary to recur to the operation again, per- 

 haps three or four times, always inserting the blade 

 so as to cut nothing but the old channel each time. 

 — Wm. Stoveb, Watei'loo, iV. Y. 



