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THE WHEAT CULTHRIST. 



Gentleman " : " For many years the need of an early 

 and productive variety of wheat, and one free from the 

 ' midge ' or ' weevil ' has been felt ; and in the TTeeks 

 wheat the farmer has such a variety. It is a choice 

 white wheatj making the very best of flom\ Millers in 

 Ithaca and Auburn pay from two to four shillings more 

 for it per bushel than for any other hind. They say they 

 get more flour, and of a better quality, than from any 

 other kind. It is from eight to twelve days earlier than 

 any other kind wliich farmers have here, thus escajDing 

 the Aveevil or midge. It has a good stiff straw, and 

 thereby escapes the Hessian fly. It is very productive 

 — twenty-five bushels not being a high average per acre, 

 and I have known it to yield as high as forty-five bush- 

 els per acre. It is no humbug, as scores of the best 

 farmers here will testify ; and I actually believe that if 

 this variety alone was sown in the United States, the 

 crop would be doubled on the area over the present 

 crop. It need not be sown before the 15th or 20th of 

 September to do its best." 



Golden-straw Wheat. 



The straw of this variety is sliort and stifij, and is 

 consequently not liable to lodge. It does best on rich 

 sandy loams. The grain is not properly a red wheat ; 

 but of nice amber color, somewhat resembling the 

 old-fashioned flint wheats. In Holmes County, Ohio, 

 it is rather of a yellowish cast. It ripens rather later 

 than the Mediterranean. It yields about twenty bushels 

 per acre ; and improves under ordinary culture, and is 

 but little subject to injury by rust or fly. It is rapidly 

 growing into favor ; and eventually may perhaps sup- 

 plant the Mediterranean. 



