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ol the original forests remain, winter wheat is a failure, being 
winter-killed, and its cultivation hai; been abandoned. Spring wheat, 
that could in early days be relied upon to give an annual yield of 22 
to 25 bushels per acre, cannot be estimated now at more than from 
10 'to 15. The same state of facts will be found to exist in 
the Genesee Valley in New York, in Southern Michigan, and 
in fact all wheat producing districts formerly covered with timber. 
MOUNTAIN ASH. 
