Wheat Culture How to Double the Yield And Increase the Profits
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In Michigan both spring and winter varieties are grown extensively ; of the latter, Clawson, Deihl, Early May, Gold Medal, Genesee Flint, Lancaster, Mediterranean, and Victor seem to be most popular ; of the former, Arnautka, Canada Club, Champlain, De- fiance, Fife, Milwaukee, and Touzelle are preferred. Minnesota grows largely of Arnautka, Fife, Odessa, and Club spring wheats and some winter sorts. Kansas grows spring and some winter wheats. EXPEEIMElsTTS AT THE MISSOURI AGRICULTUEAL COLLEGE.... In Missouri all the popular sorts succeed, particularly Clawson and Sandford. Prof. G. C. Swallow, Dean of the Agricultural College, writing in regard to some interest- ing experiments made with wheat on the farm of that Institution, in 1877-78, reports that of sixty-one va- rieties of winter wheat experimented with, twelve were winter-killed and one was destroyed by rust. Of the remaining forty-eight kinds, all planted September twenty-ninth, 1877, forty-three were harvested in June, and five in July ; eight kinds grew to a hight of six feet ; six kinds weighed the standard of sixty pounds, or over ; five reached thirty bushels, or over, per acre ; two, less than one hundred pounds of straw per bushel, namely : Clawson, giving on an acre two thousand six hundred and forty-six pounds of straw to twenty-eight bushels of grain ; and the Sandford, giving on an acre one thousand VAKIETIES MOST GROWK IK THE UKlTED STATES.
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