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and is generally preferred on account cf its lighter color, 

 and being beardless. 



We also give an engraving (fig. 6) of a new Spring 

 Wheat, called the " White Kussian " (somewhat like the 

 Defiance), which, it is claimed, is a great cropper, and 

 very valuable. 



SOME ENGLISH PEDIGREE WHEATS. 



Mr. T. E. Pawlett, an English farmer, reports in 

 detail some interesting experiments. He says : " Oc- 

 tober twenty-fifth, 1861, I drilled in the following seven 

 sorts of wheat, in drills eight inches apart, covering 

 about one and one-half inch, six pecks the acre, on clover- 

 sod plowed-under, after being fed a short time by sheep, 

 and obtained results as follows : 



1 Hallett's Pedigree, red 36'/ 2 bushels per acre. 



2 Giant, red 88'/4 " " 



3 Tibbald's Wonder, red 43V 4 " " 



4 Corner's, white 42 3 / 4 " " 



5 Glory of the West, white 37y a " " 



6 Grace's, white 44 " " 



7 Russian, white 4iy a " " 



October twenty-sixth, same year, he made another ex- 

 periment, on another field, with six varieties, on gravel 

 land, after clover plowed-under, and same quantity of 

 seed dnlled-m, same distance and depth as in the above 

 experiment, with the following results : 



1 Tibbald's Wonder, red 48y 2 bushels per acre. 



2 Giant, red 88'/ 4 " " 



3 Browick, red 44y 4 " " 



4 Russian, white 33y a " " 



5 Corner's, white , 45/ u " 



6-Talavera, white 36Va " " 



He remarks that, from these experiments, it appears 

 that Corner's and Grace's are the best yielders of the 

 white wheat, and that the Giant and Tibbald's are the 

 best yielders of the dark wheats, on his land, while Tib- 

 bald's gave the heaviest yield of all ; Corner's is the best 

 quality of gram. 

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