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was not well under-drained, both varieties suffered some- 

 what by winter killing ; otherwise his whole yield would 

 have been one-quarter larger, while no injury occurred 

 from that cause on the well-drained land ; the largest 

 yield he ever knew from the Fultz was forty bushels the 

 acre, while his best three acres of Clawson gave one 

 hundred and eighty-one bushels, being sixty and one- 

 third bushels per acre." 



Mr. Harroon, of Monroe County, N. Y. , obtained from 

 eleven and three-quarter acres of clover turned under, 

 four hundred and forty-three and one-half bushels of 

 handsome Blue-stem wheat, being over thirty-seven 

 bushels per acre. 



Ellwanger & Barry, of Rochester, K Y., thrashed 

 from eight acres an average of fifty and a half bushels of 

 good wheat on land thoroughly drained and well worked, 

 which had previously been a nursery and orchard, show- 

 ing the advantage of having land well drained and per- 

 fectly pulverized for wheat. 



A correspondent of the old " Genesee Farmer " reports 

 a crop of Genesee Flint wheat giving ninety and three- 

 quarter bushels on one acre of land, containing, by an- 

 alysis, only two and forty-three one-hundredths per 

 cent of organic matter, but contained thirty per cent 

 (very large) of soluble silicia, with potash, soda, and 

 other minerals, in larger proportion than is generally 

 found in good lands. 



The "Michigan Homestead" says that Dr. Smith 

 stated, in an address before the Saganaw (Mich.) Farm- 

 ers' Club, that David Geddes, of that county, obtained 

 seventy-three bushels of good wheat from one acre of 

 land. James L. Rea, of Lewis and Clark County, Mon- 

 tana Territory, produced one hundred and two bushels of 

 good wheat from one acre, and he obtained the first pre- 

 mium, at the Fair, for the largest yield of wheat raised 

 in the Territory. 



