44 WHEAT CULTURE. 



varieties, among many, grown on their place, and per- 

 haps throughout the State. The proportion of grain to 

 straw is an important consideration in determining the 

 value of any variety of wheat. We here give some im- 

 portant reports on the subject from the Pennsylvania 

 Agricultural College and "Experimental Farm." Their 

 experiments in 1878 included above twenty varieties, but 

 I here give the results of the four most important varie- 

 ties, viz. : Clawson, Fultz, Gold Dust and Gold Medal. 

 They were all sown on Spetember twenty-eighth, 1877, 

 and all harvested June twenty-eighth, 1878, with the 

 same care and accuracy. 



Fultz and Gold Medal, light amber and beardless, 

 yielded, of grain and straw, per acre, as follows : 

 Fultz grain, thirty-two and eight one-hundreths bush- 

 els ; straw, two thousand five hundred and ninety- 

 two pounds. Gold Medal grain, thirty-one and fifty- 

 four one-hundredths bushels ; straw, two thousand five 

 hundred and fifty-two pounds, a remarkable nearness 

 of yield, in both grain and straw, by these sorts. 



Clawson and Gold Dust, beardless, whiter than above 

 kinds, sown and harvested the same date as above, gave the 

 following results : Clawson grain, thirty-two bushels ; 

 straw, three thousand and seventy-two pounds. Gold 

 Dust grain, thirty-one and twenty-four one-hundreths 

 bushels; straw, three thousand and forty-two pounds; very 

 nearly the same yields of straw and grain, by each, re- 

 spectively and proportionally ; but it will be noticed that 

 the Fultz and Gold Medal gave slightly larger proportion 

 of grain to straw than the Clawson and Gold Dust ; all 

 of the other kinds (of the twenty tried) gave considera- 

 bly more straw, compared to quantity of grain, than 

 these four thus particularly mentioned. 



The ground on which all of these were sown was a 

 clayey, sandy loam wheat stubble, plowed soon after har- 

 vest, then liberally manured. The wheat was put in 



