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ed it some years since ; it has become acclimated. Fresh seed 

 would no doubt be in full possession of its most valued pro- 

 perties. 



The Turkish Flint Wheat, from near Mount Olympus, in 

 Asia, is a hardy fall variety, and has recently been introduced 

 into the United States through the Patent Office. It has a dark 

 coloured chaff, a very heavy beard, and a long, flinty, white-color- 

 ed berry, and is thought by the Commissioner of Patents likely 

 to prove highly profitable to the farmer and miller, from its su- 

 perior weight and the excellence of the flour it produces. It has 

 withstood the severity of an American winter in the middle 

 States, and " from its long^ thick beard will probably be protect- 

 ed in a measure from the depredations of insects in the field as 

 well as from heating or moulding in the stalk." P. O. R. 1855. 



7th. Burning of Orpiment. This is a most dangerous recom- 

 mendation. If it were attempted on a large scale, sufficient to 

 be of practical utility, the destruction of many flies would be 

 very probable, but the poisoning of a manipulator now and then 

 would be absolutely certain. This suggestion has been copied 

 from a " Canada Journal," into the Patent Office Report for 

 1847. 



162. Sound and practical advice on this subject is given to a 

 correspondent whose wheat was beginning to suffer from the 

 * Weevil ' in the county of Middlesex, by the editor of the 

 Canadian Agriculturist, in the Sept. number, (1856) of that 

 Journal. The extract is subjoined. 



1st. Prepare your land well. 2nd. Sow early (winter wheat) ; 

 for this neighbourhood, we should say not later than the 

 second week of September, (of course the absence of the Hes- 

 sian fly is here supposed.) 3rd. Select early and hardy vari- 

 eties of wheat, such as the Improved White-Flint ; Kentucky 

 White-bearded, or as it is commonly called, Hutchinsons ; Blue 



