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operate as a protection to the plants in its own neighborhood from the 
wind. To effect this it would be a good plan to seed the ground, and 
create a sward, which when turned over by the plow will be left as rough, 
•as is desirable. Fields to the windward, according to the prevailing 
spring wind, off woodland will be protected to a certain extent. A still 
more efficient remedy may be obtained by drilling in the seed, so that 
the harrow can pass over the field in the spring without great injury to 
the plant. Then as the ground thaws and dries on the surface the har¬ 
row should be run over it, loosening the soil, to be followed by a roller, 
settling it compactly about the roots. 
Insects, with one or two exceptions, have never troubled the wheat 
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crop here. A few years ago, a small black fly, called by some the Hes¬ 
sian Fly, but its identity may be doubted, visited Walworth, a part of 
Rock and a part of Kenosha counties. Its ravages were considerable in 
some fields, but after two returns it disappeared and has not since been 
heard of. It may be superfluous to advl that no great anxiety is felt on 
account of its prolonged absence. The chinch-bug has committed some 
depredations in the Southern part of the State, but is really a more trou¬ 
blesome than destructive insect. 
A singular and interesting manifestation of disease in the hedgerow 
variety, a few years ago, has caused its cultivation to be entirely aban¬ 
doned. Entire fields rotted in the head, producing a destruction of the 
whole crop. \No remedy was found for it, and as the disease continued 
to appear from year to year, the production of this wheat has been 're¬ 
linquished. The hedgerow was a hardy variety, and very productive, 
and was abandoned with great reluctance. 
A variety of spring wheat that has been cultivated with good success 
in this State, is the Canada Club wheat. What is its origin I have been 
unable to ascertain. It has been under cultivation some five or six years 
in the Eastern part of the State, and three or four years in the West. An 
intelligent farmer with whom I conversed on the subject supposes it to be 
derived by changing Soule’s wheat to a spring variety. There are certainly 
reasons for the supposition. The resemblance between them is striking. 
The straw has the same remarkably hard, brittle texture; the berry and 
the flour are almost indistinguishable. 
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