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grower in Arkansas reports getting eighty-two stalks, in 

 one stool, from one kernel of Fultz wheat. 



YIELD AND PRODUCT FOE SIXTEEN YEARS. 



From statistics in the Agricultural Reports, for the fif- 

 teen years previous to 1878, it is learned that the total 

 average area sown of wheat was twenty million five hundred 

 and seventy-nine thousand eight hundred and thirty-one 

 acres ; total average product, two hundred and fifty mil- 

 lion two hundred and seventy thousand one hundred and 

 twenty-seven. In 1863, thirteen million ninety-eight 

 thousand nine hundred and thirty-six acres were sown, 

 producing one hundred and seventy-three million six hun- 

 dred and seventy-seven thousand nine hundred and twen- 

 ty-eight bushels of wheat, and showing an average yield, 

 per acre, of a fraction above thirteen bushels, for that 

 year. The average yield, per acre, during sixteen years, 

 including 1878, was found to be twelve and one-half 

 bushels. In 1878, the area harvested was reported at 

 thirty-one million acres, and the product at about four 

 hundred and twenty million bushels, giving a fraction over 

 thirteen bushels per acre. The average price, per bushel, 

 for sixteen years, was one dollar and twenty cents and 

 four mills ; average price from 1871 to 1878, inclusive, 

 was one dollar and four cents ; the highest average price, 

 any one year, during the sixteen years past, was two dol- 

 lars and six cents and four mills. When the writer was 

 a boy, on the Genesee Flats, fifty years ago, it was a 

 common thing among farmers to obtain as high as forty, 

 fifty, and often sixty, bushels the acre. 



RESPONSES TO MY CIRCULARS. 



During the latter part of last year I sent out several 

 hundred circulars to reliable and practical parties, in most 

 of the States, for the purpose of obtaining reports of the 

 best achievements known in wheat growing, by the best 



