62 WHEAT CULTUltE. 



CHAPTER XII. 

 EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS. 



Agricultural Commissioner L. L. Polk, of North Caro- 

 lina, writes : "We have many other as large yields of 

 wheat as the one reported here (thirty-one and one-half 

 bushels), but not on such large areas of ground as the 

 above ; deep plowing and fine pulverization does it." 



Mr. V. C. S tiers, of Ohio, says : " Fultz is their best 

 variety of wheat ; Dr. Little gets large yield by hauling 

 the dead animals and other stuff from the town, and 

 then composting them with the manure and garden 

 earth on his farm ; it gives him very profitable returns 

 for the cost." 



Mr. D. Lawrence, of Maryland, says: "The land 

 was well prepared by harrowing and rolling before seed- 

 ing with the drill ; the seed was carefully screened and 

 brined, to make it perfectly clean." 



Mr. J. H. Hess, of Ohio, says : " My yield of Ar- 

 nold's Gold Medal, in 1878, was forty-five bushels the 

 acre ; in 1879, on similar soil, it is forty-six and one-half 

 bushels the acre." 



Hon. Richard Johnson, of Livingston County, New 

 York, writes : " When this county was new, half a cen- 

 tury ago, yields of wheat as high as sixty bushels the 

 acre were raised here in some instances, and often forty 

 bushels. Now, we think twenty to twenty-five bushels 

 the acre a good yield ; our land, generally, is a gravelly 

 loam. The reason that we do not get such crops as for- 

 merly is that the farmers "run "their land too much 

 with grain, and do not pasture and clover enough ; and 

 the forests are cut away, so there are no trees for wind- 

 breaks." 



