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ripens late, and subject to rust. Although branching, it is 

 not productive. There is a winter variety also. MocJc 

 Wheat, from Spain. — Chaff white, bearded, berry red and 

 long, bran thick, flour of fair quality, hardy, shows small, 

 well adapted for new lands and late soAving. Black 

 Bearded. — Long cultivated in New York — stem large, 

 heavy head, berry large and red, beard very long and stiff, 

 produces flour well. Bed Bearded, English. — Chaff" red, 

 bearded, beards standing out, berry white, weighs from 

 sixty to sixty-two pounds. Scotch Wlieat. — A large white 

 wheat, berry and straw large. 



Spring wheat does well on soils which heave and throw 

 out winter wheat. It is deemed a good policy to sow some 

 spring wheat every year, that, if the winter wheat fails, a 

 crop may still be on hand. 



An account of the best varieties of winter wheat, we 

 extract from the Westerti Fai'mer and Gardener : 



"White Flint. — A winter wheat, very white chaff, with- 

 stood Hessian fly well, has yielded fifty-four bushels to the 

 acre, weighing from sixty-three to sixty-seven pounds per 

 bushel. Improved Wlute Flint. — This fi'om early selection 

 from the first. White Provence, from France. — A white 

 wheat — shows small heads, well filled and large. Old Bed 

 Chaff. — White wheat, old — subject to fly. Kentucky, 

 White Bearded. — White wheat, sometimes called Cana- 

 dian Flint — early, good for clay soils. Indiana Wheat. — 

 White wheat — berry white and large, ripens early, not so 

 flinty as the White Flint, good flour, valuable for clayey 

 soils. Yelvet Beard, or Grate Wheat. — White wheat — 

 English variety, chaff reddish, berry large and red, straw 

 large and long, heads long and well filled, beard very stiff, 

 flour yellowish, Soide's Wlieat. — A mixed variety, heads 

 large, berry white, not very hardy. Beaver Bam. — Old 

 variety, berry red, flour yellowish, ripens late. Eclipse. — 

 English, not hardy. Virginia White May, from Virginia. — 

 Winter, good flour, chaff white. Wheatland Wlieat., from 



