VARIETIES MOST GROWN IN" THE UNITED STATES. 43 



twenty-fifth of June with the Velvet-chaff variety, a 

 hard, amber wheat, and is valued for its freedom from 

 disease, stiffness of straw, earliness, and good flour. 

 Fultz ripened about the same time, possessing good 

 qualities, with rather softer grain. Golden Straw was 

 cut on the twenty-seventh. It is a white, plump wheat, 

 originated in Tennessee, has short, stiff straw, but has 

 not proved a very heavy cropper. June thirtieth Claw- 

 son was cut, and has sustained its high reputation for 

 freedom from disease, weight of crop, and good straw. 

 Next Gold Medal was cut, a soft, white grain, short, 

 stiff, clean straw, and heavy cropper, but shells easily. 

 About the same time the Silver-chaff was ripened, a 

 Canada wheat, is a tall grower, with stiff straw, not very 

 liable to lodge on any soil, appears free from disease, 

 does not shell easily, is white as the Clawson and flinty 

 as the Mediterranean. Though not accurately measured, 

 the yield was about as follows : Velvet-chaff, thirty- 

 six bushels per acre ; Fultz, twenty-six ; Golden Straw, 

 twenty-seven ; Clawson, thirty-four ; Gold Medal, thirty- 

 six, and Silver-chaff, thirty-five." 



In the palmy days of the Genesee Flint, the splendid 

 varieties of Clawson, Fultz, Gold Dust, Gold Medal, and 

 Jennings' White, seem not to have been known, at least, 

 are not mentioned by Mr. Klippart in his work, though 

 they are now, perhaps, the five most popular varieties of 

 winter wheat grown in our country. He names Canada 

 Flint, Genesee Flint, Hutchinson, English, Blue-stem, 

 Lambert, Orange, and Early May, as among the most 

 popular white wheats in 1860. 



EXPERIMENTS IN PENNSYLVANIA. 



Reports from the "Experimental Farm" of the Agri- 

 cultural College of Pennsylvania, of which Prof. James 

 Calder is President, show the Clawson, Gold Medal, Gold 

 Dust, Fultz, and Lancaster, to be the most desirable 



