68 WHEAT CULTURE. 



OTHER EtfOOHRAGIXG EXAMPLES. 



It is stated, on what is regarded good authority, that 

 a farmer in Lake County, Colorado, sowed one acre of 

 sandy land, May first, with White Russian wheat, and in 

 September harvested from it one hundred hushels of 

 good, sound grain. The land was irrigated with water 

 from a mountain stream. 



A farmer in Carroll County, Illinois, reports that for 

 several consecutive years he obtained twenty-five bushels, 

 the acre, of Odessa Spring wheat, from the same field ; 

 he also found that the Odessa answers a good purpose 

 as a fall wheat, giving that yield, sowed either in fall 

 or spring, in that region. 



Some time since it was reported in the " Ohio Farmer " 

 that a Mr. Cavin, of Indiana, obtained an average yield 

 of forty-nine bushels per acre from eleven acres ; also, 

 that Mr. Richards, of Ohio, obtained nearly the same 

 average yield from an entire field of twenty-seven acres, 

 and that Andrew Smith, same State, obtained an average 

 of fifty-four bushels the acre from fifteen acres, with the 

 Clawson variety. Mr. French, of Berkshire, Massachu- 

 setts, obtained, by drainage and thorough cultivation, an 

 average of fifty-five bushels the acre, with the Clawson 

 wheat, one acre of the same field giving sixty-five bush- 

 els ; the Clawson is noted as a remarkable tiller, hence 

 its large yields. Father Weikamp, of the Convent Farm 

 in Emmet County, Michigan, is reported to have thrashed 

 one hundred and seventy-four and one-half bushels of 

 wheat from three and one-half acres of land, giving a 

 fraction over fifty bushels the acre. A Bel Air (Md.) pa- 

 per states that William Oldfield, of that county, in 1878, 

 raised one thousand bushels of wheat from twenty-eight 

 acres. Part was sown with Fultz wheat, giving forty-five 

 bushels the acre. The balance was sown with Mediterra- 

 nean, which gave thirty-five bushels the acre. One 



