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again on his place, and he made another test of the 

 utility of early harvest, with three patches of wheat. The 

 third week in June, when rust struck all of his wheat, he 

 at once cut one Held, while very green, just passing out 

 of the milk ; two days after he cut the second field ; 

 three days later still he cut the third, by which time the 

 rust was very bad. The early cut was left to cure in the 

 swath. He thrashed and weighed each parcel separately, 

 as in the former experiment. The first cut gave twenty- 

 five bushels the acre, weighing sixty-one pounds the 

 bushel ; the second lot only half as much, and weighing 

 fifty-six pounds the bushel ; and the third lot much 

 poorer than the second." 



Here are instructive lessons in regard to early harvest 

 and rust. 



EXPERIMENTS IK ENGLAND. 



"An English farmer reports cutting three lots of 

 wheat at different stages of maturity in the milk, in the 

 dough, and fully 'ripe. He thrashed separately, and had 

 one hundred pounds of each carefully ground and the 

 results weighed. The one hundred pounds of wheat, cut 

 in the milk, made seventy-five pounds of flour, eleven 

 pounds shorts, twelve pounds bran ; that cut in the 

 dough made eighty pounds flour, five pounds shorts, 

 thirteen pounds bran ; that cut fully ripe made seventy- 

 two pounds flour, eleven pounds shorts, fifteen pounds 

 bran ; two pounds lost by milling in each case. This 

 shows the dough state made most flour, and the ripest 

 made the least flour and most bran." Bran is made at 

 the expense of flour, by standing late. 



Mr. Reid, of Indiana, reports to the Agricultural De- 

 partment that he cut half of a fifty-acre field of Mediter- 

 ranean wheat in the dough state ; the balance ten days 

 later. The first gave most bushels, and weighed sixty- 

 five pounds ; the last, less bushels, weighing only sixty 

 pounds ; the first also made more and better flour. 



