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empt from all diseases, that we are not surprised at the marked 
favor it has received. It is admirably adapted for securing a pre- 
mium in our agricultural iocieties, where, “the largest crop, 
raised at the least expense”’ receives the prize; but its grower 
will be reluctant to inform his neighbors, that he sells it in mar- 
ket at six cents per bushel under the current price. In fine, we 
think this noted variety can never come into general favor in those 
districts where choicer kinds can be successfully cultivated. The 
Errurian wueat, brought home by Com. Stewart, so far as yet 
appears, possesses all the most valuable qualities, and none of the 
defects of the Mediterranean. This is a bald variety, having a 
strong and vigorous stalk, a beautifnl long smooth head, yielding 
a round, plump, white kernel, with a remarkably thin bran. It 
is very prolific, and quite as early as the Mediterranean, (Rey. D. 
Zollickoffer and others in the American Farmer,) and has thus far 
resisted the attack of the fly. We are gravely told by an anony- 
mous writer, that “this wheat was not, as its name would indicate 
brought from the little Island of Etruria.” In what creek this 
“little island”’ is situated, we have been unable to discover, but 
with such a decided negation, we are driven to the inference that 
the grain in question was derived from a territory which we mod- 
erns call Tuscany. The Wuire ruint wueat, one of the choicest 
varieties of western New York, withstands the attack of the fly 
better than any of the other kinds there inuse. Tor a full account 
of it, see Gen. Harmon’s paper in the Trans. WV. Y. State Agric. 
Soc., 1843, p. 217. In conclusion of this branch of our subject, 
we would observe, that we should by no means be solicitous of 
procuring any variety of wheat, merely because of its fly proof 
qualities, believing as we do, that in all ordinary visitations of 
the fly, other measures are a sufficient safeguard. If vigor of root 
firmness of stalk, and rapidity of growth, are, as would appear, the 
points which render these varieties fly proof, a fertile soil will 
certainly go far towards imparting to most other varieties the same 
quality. 
7. Steeps for the seed.—These have been recommended with a 
two-fold view. Ist. To destroy the eggs; decoction of elder, juice 
