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CHAPTER XL 

 EXAMPLES OF SUCCESSFUL WHEAT CULTURE. 



As an encouragement, especially to our younger far- 

 mers, and as a stimulant to all, to make efforts for the 

 highest possible achievements in wheat growing, we pre- 

 sent many examples of large yields per acre from various 

 sections of our country by different farmers, who have far 

 exceeded the common yield of thirteen to fifteen bushels, 

 which has been the average throughout the country for 

 several years past. While in Massachusetts, Michigan, 

 Rhode Island, and Oregon, the average, per acre, in 1878 

 and 1879, was about twenty-two bushels ; in Illinois, New 

 York, and Ohio, it was nineteen ; California, Kansas, 

 Indiana, Texas, and Vermont, seventeen ; Pennsylvania 

 and New Jersey, fifteen ; in all of the other States, as 

 low as fourteen or under, and in some of the States as 

 low as six to eight bushels. 



Now, we believe the lowest of these named may easily 

 reach the figure of the highest, and that many of the 

 States may attain an average of thirty to forty bushels to 

 the acre, simply by fairly adopting the thorough system 

 and methods pointed out in these pages. 



One farmer, of Hudson, Ohio, stated in the " Country 

 Gentleman," that he got from a field of sandy-clay loam 

 land, thirty-two bushels of Clawson wheat, and twenty- 

 four bushels of Fultz, per acre ; that he weighed in the 

 scales kernels of each, and found that thirty kernels of 

 the Clawson balanced forty kernels of the Fultz, and that 

 he planted eight pecks of Clawson and seven pecks of 

 Fultz to the acre. On that portion of his land which 



