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with the drill after the land was thoroughly rolled and 

 all lumps crushed and powdered. 



Genesee Flint, Boughton, Mediterranean, Silver- 

 chaff, Blue-stem, Jennings' White, Victor, and Wicks, 

 are some of the varieties which give large proportion of 

 grain to straw, while Sandford, Eureka, " Bill Dallas," 

 Walker, and Deihl, give greater proportion of straw to 

 grain than those named above. 



Farmers desiring a wheat which will produce the best 

 proportion of grain to straw, will find a lesson and a 

 guide in this statement. 



VARIETIES IK TENNESSEE AND VIRGINIA. 



Hon. J. B. Killebrew, in his instructive work on 

 Wheats in Tennessee, mentions, as succeeding generally in 

 that State, the Amber, Boughton, Clawson, Deihl, Early 

 May, Fultz, Genesee Flint, Golden-straw, Lancaster, 

 Mediterranean, Quaker, Walker, and some others ; and 

 he remarks, specially, that "before the introduction of 

 Boughton, Clawson, Fultz, and Mediterranean, with 

 some others, fifteen to twenty bushels the acre was con- 

 sidered an extra yield, but since then twenty-five to 

 thirty-five bushels the acre are not uncommon on prop- 

 erly tilled lands." 



Hon. Thomas Pollard, Commissioner of Agriculture 

 for Virginia, in his excellent Report, 1879, shows that 

 the varieties most grown and popular in that State are, 

 about in the order named, the following : Fultz, Lan- 

 caster, Scott, Amber, Blue-stem, Clawson, Canada, 

 Golden-straw, Mediterranean, and Genesee Flint ; and 

 others, popular in localities, as the Jennings' White, 

 Michigan, Kentucky, Missouri Yellow, New York Flint, 

 Quaker, Ruffin, Weeks, and Zimmerman. 



Prof. J. R. Page, of the Virginia University Experi- 

 mental Farm, in 1878, reports experiments with " Eureka " 

 and "Fultz " wheats, planted with drill, one-half acre each, 



