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HENDERSON'S AMERICAN FARMER'S MANUAL. 



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The Grandest Winter "Wheat Ever Offered. 



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JONES' WINTER FIFE (Bald). 



A boon to farmers and millers. The most desirable "Winter sort 

 known, yielding from 40 to 55 bushels per acre. This is, without 

 doubt, the coming No. 1 hard gluten sort of the East, being to the 

 Winter "Wheat sections what the No. 1 Hard Spring is to the North- 

 west ; excelling in the amount of gluten even the noted Saskatche- 

 wan Spring Fife, the pride of all North-western millers. It is 

 well known that millers in the Winter "Wheat sections are obliged 

 to use a certain amount of Spring Fife to obtain gluten, in which 

 our common sorts are in a degree deficient, and without which it 

 is impossible to compete with the Spring "Wheat sections. But 

 with this sort in general cultivation we can compete ivith the highest 

 grade of flour known. This sort originated from a combined cross. 

 The first cross being from Mediterranean and a seedling, this 

 seedling being a cross between Mediterranean and Fultz, which 

 was crossed with Velvet Chaff. It is a very strong grower, cover- 

 ing the ground early in the season, requiring light seeding on rich 

 soil. Straw is above medium height and very strong. Heads long 

 and broad, free from beards, with breasts overlapping each other. 

 Ripens early, and has a velvet-like glisten in the sun. Grain of 

 medium size ; requires to be left until fully ripe before being har- 

 vested, and does not shell in the field. Transparent, hard and 

 dark, weighing more to the bushel than any other sort. (See cut.) 



EARLY RED CLAWSON (Bald).— The coming new 

 "Wheat, and the earliest "Winter variety extant. This promising 

 sort is a cross between the popular Golden Cross fertilized on the 

 Clawson, partaking from the Golden Cross the compact head, dark 

 red grain, extreme hardiness, and strong, rapid growth, and from 

 the Clawson baldness and red chaff, with very large kernels. It is, , 

 without doubt, the earliest sort yet known, enormously productive, 

 yielding from 35 to 48 bushels to the acre. Straw very strong and 

 bright; requires light seeding on rich, strong soil, 1% bushels 

 being sufficient. "We would call special attention to this sort for 

 heavy clay soils. The grain is very dark and hard. 



Fulcaster (Bearded).— A variety that has already gained 

 considerable popularity as a reliable sort. Berry red, large, hard 

 and of good milling quality. Straw very stiff, of medium length. 

 It has yielded at the rate of 48 bushels per acre. 



Golden Cross, Red (Bearded).— This valuable new vari- 

 ety comesfrom splendid parentage, being ahybrid of the Mediterra- 

 nean and Clawson. It is an enormous yielder, is light-bearded and 

 compact-headed. Straw large, hard, thick, strong-pointed, which 

 is proof against the attack of the Hessian fly. It is early, strong 

 and rapid-growing, producing stools of mammoth size, and yields 

 from 50 to 60 bushels per acre. The kernels are large and plump, 

 weighing on an average 65 lbs. to the measured bushel. 



Your Permanent Pasture Grass in this section is a great success. — P. Whelah, Sayyille, L. L 



