40 WHEAT CULTURE. 



"Winter, and Gold Medal, with the Sherman as a spring 

 wheat, have given good results. Delaware produces the 

 Virginia White and Fultz, and most other varieties of 

 winter wheats that succeed in Maryland. Illinois and 

 Iowa grow most of the winter and spring sorts that suc- 

 ceed in Wisconsin and other States generally, including 

 Fultz and Club. In Maryland, the Boughton, Blue- 

 stem, Clawson, Fultz, Gold Dust, Gold Medal, Jennings, 

 Lancaster, Mediterranean, and New York Flints, are 

 popular. In Michigan both spring and winter varieties 

 are grown extensively; of the latter, Clawson, Deihl, 

 Early May, Gold Medal, Genesee Flint, Lancaster, 

 Mediterranean, and Victor seem to be most popular ; of 

 the former, Arnautka, Canada Club, Champlain, De- 

 fiance, Fife, Milwaukee, and Touzelle are preferred. 

 Minnesota grows largely of Arnautka, Fife* Odessa, and 

 Club spring wheats and some winter sorts. Kansas 

 grows spring and some winter wheats. 



EXPERIMENTS AT THE MISSOURI AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. 



In Missouri all the popular sorts succeed, particularly 

 Clawson and Sandford. Prof. G. C. Swallow, Dean of the 

 Agricultural College, writing in regard to some interest- 

 ing experiments made with wheat on the farm of that 

 Institution, in 1877-78, reports that of sixty-one va- 

 rieties of winter wheat experimented with, twelve were 

 winter-killed and one was destroyed by rust. Of the 

 remaining forty-eight kinds, all planted September 

 twenty-ninth, 1877, forty-three were harvested in June, 

 and five in July ; eight kinds grew to a hight of six feet ; 

 six kinds weighed the standard of sixty pounds, or over ; 

 five reached thirty bushels, or over, per acre ; two, less 

 than one hundred pounds of straw per bushel, namely : 

 Clawson, giving on an acre two thousand six hundred 

 and forty-six pounds of straw to twenty-eight bushels of 

 grain ; and the Sandford, giving on an acre one thousand 



