THE WISCONSIN FARMER.



from here to Fort Craig, a distance of 40
miles. Farming here pays better than gol
digging in California or Pike's Peak.
                              J. G. KNAPP.
  BAa=   s 103?. near Iron? 115ox, New Mexico. Do I

      The Great International Exhibition.

                   NO. V.

          GRUAT BRITAIN, CONTINUED.
   In our last we completed such brief accoun
as it seemed advisable to give of the minera
resources and products of the British King
dom. And although much more might well bi
said of such products and of Processes, yet
through fear of becoming tedious, in view oa
the much that remains to be said of the splen.
did contributions of this and other nations, wI
hurry on to consider, in this number, the next
branch, in logical order, of the English De.
partment, to wit:
     VEGETABLE AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS.
  The Forests of Great Britain were not very
well represented in the Exhibition; still there
were samples of some of the more common va-
rieties of timber, such as the oak, ash, maple,
elm, sycamore, birch, poplar, pine, larch,
chestnut, &c., from the numerous small forests
belonging to private estates, which, however,
together with those of Hampshire, Gloucester-
shire and Nottinghamshire, constitute in the
aggregate what by an American must be con-
sidered a very moderate supply of timber.
  There is, nevertheless, so exhaustless a sup.
ply of coal and of peat in the British Islands
that there is but little suffering for want of
fuel, while the importations of timber of all
kinds, and at moderate rates-owing to the ex-
tent of their matchles smerchant marine-fur-
nish their ship-builders and other workers in
wood with needed material.
  OF THE CEREALS OF GREAT BRITAIN there
were 25 exhibitors-some of the collections
being very fine.
  Wheat was there in several varieties and from
most of the grain growing districts of the
kingdom. Of the white varieties, the Chid-
daw, Hunter's. the Talavera, and the Velvet



or Woolly-eared wheats are the most popular.
  Chiddaw, or Cheltham, is a round, fair, even-
grained wheat, adapted to soft, rich soils, and
grown in the finest wheat districts of England.
It is a free-grower, long-strawed, ripens early,
and is not liable to lodge or mildew. Weight
in dry summers, often as high as 67 pounds.
It is not so well adapted to the latitude ol
Scotland.
  The Hunter's wheat was chiefly from the
eastern counties of Scotland. Samples shown
by the Messrs. Lawson, distinguished seeds-
men of Edinburgh, grown in east Lothian,
were very fine. It is adapted to medium and
even to inferior soils, has a moderate length of
straw, a hard,flinty kernel, and is a great fa-
vorite with millers and bakers.
  The Talavera wheat is regarded in England
as the best spring variety for black and gravel-
ly soils. As a winter wheat, it is rather short
strawed. Grain large, oblong, thin-skinned,
very white.
  Velvet variety, (common, originally from
Dantzic), adapted to rich, loamy soils, and a
great favorite in the counties of Sussex and
Kent.  The grain is semi-transparent, and
yields an excellent flour.
The Irish White is, as the name implies, pop-
ular in Ireland; also cultivated in some parts
of England with good success. It is a winter
wheat and is never sown in spring; adapted
to light soils; grain, large, oblong, rather
brownish, flinty; in favor with bakers for mix-
ing with softer and whiter sorts.
Among the red wheats of England, are the
Laminma, adapted to inferior soils and to a mild
climate, and hence grown chiefly in the south
Lnd southwest of England, Spaulding's Pro-
iflc, Clover's, and the Red Nursery.
tEZARKABLE RESULTS OF THE CAR.EFUL "3BRBD-
             IN '" o0 WHEAT.
 Samples of the last named were shown by
dr. Hallett, of Sussex county, as "Hallett's
Pedigree Nursery Wheat." They purported to
iave been ,bred'" on the same principle of
repeated selection which has produced our pure
-aces of animals. "A certain quantity of the
)est Red Nursery wheat was sown, and on the



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