THE WHEAT CULTUKIST. 



Ill 



I have often seen on my own farm and in the wheat 

 fields of many of my neighbors, that the heads of the 

 genuine Weeks wheat are not, as a general rule, so 

 jagged and irregular as this illustration represents the 

 yariety to be. The heads of the true Weeks wheat, as I 

 used to raise it, had four regular rows of kernels. In 

 some instances, there were no beards, while other heads 

 were covered with long awns. The originator of this 

 variety communicated the following facts touching this 

 variety of wheat, in response to my inquiries about its 

 origin and other characteristics. He wrote under date 

 of October 19, 1867, as follows : 



" In answer to 3^our inquiries, I would say that I found 

 the head from which the Weeks wheat originated, in a 

 crop of Mediterranean wheat. There were a few scat- 

 tering heads of Hutchinson and Souls wheat mixed with 

 the Mediterranean, among which this head grew. The 

 product of the selected head Avas both bearded and bald 

 wheat, nearly one- third being bald ; and it continued to 

 grow bald heads for three or four years, though such 

 heads were carefully picked out every year. The midge 

 worked in the bald heads very bad, whilst the hearded 

 was almost free from their ravages. I therefore rejected' 

 the hald^ and grew the hearded. I think the wheat is a 

 cross between the Souls wheat and the Hutchinson. 

 " Respectfully yours, 



" J. M. Weeks. 

 "King's Ferry, Cayuga Co., K Y." 



E. A. King, of King's Ferry, Cayuga Co., E". Y., 

 whose farm lies on the eastern shore of Cayuga Lake, 

 and who has cultivated the Weeks wheat for a few 

 years past, writes thus to the " Cultivator and Country 



