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two hundred and fifty-two pounds of straw and eighteen 

 and three-quarters bushels of grain. 



The Missouri Agricultural College reports Red May 

 winter wheat, the earliest ripening variety, raised on 

 their experimental farm ; sowed September twenty-ninth, 

 it was ripe on June eighth ; is a smooth, or beardless 

 wheat ; gives about twenty-eight bushels the acre, weigh- 

 ing fifty-nine pounds. 



The heaviest wheat which they raised was the Mediter- 

 ranean, sixty-one pounds, and twenty-two bushels the 

 acre red grain and bearded heads. The largest yield of 

 any was from Kogers' White, thirty-eight and three- 

 quarters bushels per acre, very plump, weighing fifty-nine 

 pounds. 



EXPERIMENTS IN MASSACHUSETTS. 



In Massachusetts, as reported, some years ago, by J. 

 II. Klippart, from " Philosophic Transactions," it is 

 stated that "0. Miller, of Cambridge, on June second, 

 planted a few grains of red wheat ; one plant tillered out 

 so much by August eighth that he was enabled to divide 

 it into eighteen parts, all of which he planted separately 

 in pots of earth. Then, in September and October, so 

 many of these had multiplied their stalks that the num- 

 ber of plants was sixty-seven, which were divided and 

 again set out separately. With the first growth of spring 

 the tillering still went on, so that at the beginning of 

 April a further division was made, and the number of 

 plants was five hundred. These all proved to be ex- 

 tremely vigorous, more so than wheat plants under 

 ordinary circumstances, so that the whole number of 

 heads of wheat gathered from the original plant, by this 

 process of division, was twenty-one thousand one hundred 

 and nine. In a few instances thero were one hundred 

 heads on a single plant, very fine and long, some being 

 seven inches in length and containing seventy grains 



