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Transactions of the American Institute. 



The wheat crop of Ohio, during a period of sixteen years, has 

 been as follows: 



YEARS. 



Acres. 



Bushels. 



Average 

 per acre. 



1850 

 1851 

 1852 

 1853 

 1854 

 1855 

 1856 

 1857 

 1858 

 1859 

 1860 

 1861 

 1862 

 1863 

 1864 

 1865 



1,742,000 

 1,657,257 

 1,631,151 

 1,421,826 

 1,475,935 

 1,407,773 

 1,478,174 

 1,800,000 

 1,695,412 

 1,780,543 

 1,844,667 

 1,934,000 

 2,401,535 

 1,811,278 

 1,665,495 

 1,451,720 



31,500,000 

 25,309,225 

 23,043,737 

 17,118,311 

 11,889,110 

 19,569,320 

 15,333,837 

 25,397,614 

 17,655,483 

 13,347,967 

 23,640,356 

 20,055,424 

 29,916,518 

 20,452,410 

 15,541,385 

 13,234,139 



18.0 

 15.2 

 14.1 

 12.0 



8.0 

 13.8 

 20.2 

 14.0 

 10.4 



7.3 

 13.0 

 10.5 

 12.0 

 11.5 



9.3 



9.0 



Many trustworthy gentlemen informed me, that in a township 

 which formerly averaged twenty-five bushels of wheat per acre, 

 during the last ie.\\ years, did not produce more than an average of 

 five bushels. This falling ofi* in one of the staple products of Ohio 

 is owing to the want of proper knowledge of the principles of 

 farming which every intelligent farmer ought to possess; and to 

 what does this negliofent course lead? It results in the convert- 

 ing of the soil, that might be profitably cultivated, into a barren 

 waste. This fatal result is becoming visible in the Western and 

 Southern States of the Union. 



PEACfH ORCHARDS. 



Mr. James L. Wadsworth, Windham, Ohio.^— How far apart 

 should peach trees be set for profitable cultivation? 



Dr. Isaac P. Trimble. — In the West they ought to be planted 

 about twenty-five feet apart, and in the East sixteen feet. 



Mr. N. C. Meeker. — Eighteen by twenty feet is about the proper 

 distance. Plant your trees out early in the spring; keep them 

 well cultivated and headed back; be sure to cut the bores out twice 

 a year, and if your land is rich you will have no trouble in grow- 

 ing fine peaches. 



HEADS FOR PORK AND PICKLE BARRELS. ^ 



Mr. John Burgum, Concord, N. H., exhibited an improvement in 

 the heads of pork or pickle barrels. This was highly commended. 



