fore raised any wheat, but this year (drilled in) there is no appreciable difference in the whole. I have asked the question of a great number of farmers as to the comparative value of drilled and sown wheat, and the almost uniform answer is in favor of the former-1st, because it is evenly sown; 2d, because it is a protection against the effects of frost. Many, indeed, say they cannot prove this by their own experience, and yet they are decided in their own opinion; only one farmer I met with said he had tried both, and was positively in favor of sowing broadcast, even having in view the effects of the frost."

Two months after, this excellent correspondent thus writes: “The crop of winter wheat last year was very deficient, and consequently, although that of this year was seriously injured, it was still better than then former. Continued inquiries respecting the comparative value of drilled and sowed wheat show the decided advantages of the former. One farmer reports, for example, that he has two pieces, side by side, of like soil, and the drilled portion was injured by frost, say 1-10, the sown 5-10. He says that many in his neighborhood ploughed up their sowed fields; one field, sowed late in August, produced a fine crop."

Clermont County." In my report you will see that I have given 8, or 2-tenths, as the average amount destroyed by winter (cold) of that sown by drill, and 6, or 4-tenths, of that sown broadcast. I do not know but what the difference in favor of the drill is greater."

Van Wert County.--" Early and drilled wheat decidedly best." Hocking County.-"The winter wheat in this county was damaged mostly by the severe winter and winds; where it is protected from the sharp winds it is good, but where it was exposed it amounts to very little. Some of our farmers ploughed in their wheat, and such is better than that harrowed in.

Warren County.—“There is very little difference in the appearance of the drilled and broadcast; what there is is in favor of the former."

Loraine County.-"The drilled wheat suffered least; mine was drilled, and I have over two-thirds of a crop, whilst my neighbors' is totally destroyed."

Knox County." The difference in favor of drilling is not so apparent as usual. Protection from the piercing wind, on the first of January last, had a more favorable influence on the wheat crop than any other cause. Take our county over, and we will scarcely have more than our seed. When I found that my wheat was killed, as the next best thing I procured spring wheat, and at the proper time put it in with a drill running crosswise of the last fall's drilling, thus leaving the old to grow with the new. I have just finished cutting a No. 1 crop of wheat; I cannot tell how much per acre, but the crop is a good one in quantity and quality. If that course had been generally pursued, the advantage to the country would have been immense."

Defiance County.-"Drilled wheat has done very well, and shows its good effects this season. Late-sowed wheat is not so good as usual. I think there are at least 5-10 difference, and in favor of drilled wheat."

IOWA.

Des Moines County.- "The winter wheat was frozen in the ground; therefore no difference between that sown broadcast and by the drill."

Dallas County." Drill sowing is decidedly the best, and rolling the ground heavily afterwards would have been an effectual remedy this season. Fields treated thus suffered but little." [We suppose our correspondent speaks of rolling in the spring, and not immediately after the drilling.]

Floyd County.—"One of my assistants says he had some experience in drilling spring grain. In an ordinary season good broadcast sowing is equally good as drilling; but in a dry season the drill is the best."

MICHIGAN.

St. Joseph County.-"The grain drill has not been used extensively in this county, but when used properly the results show a decided advantage in that mode of planting."

Wayne County." The drilled wheat suffered equally with the broadcast, save where drilled north and south, when, in some places, where the ruts were deep, it was sheltered from the sweeping west wind. Drilling has some advantages, and also some disadvantages. Its advantages are, it is less liable to upheaval, and on loose soils to have the earth blown or washed away from its roots. Its disadvantages are, that in wet seasons it is liable to be submerged in the ruts on undrained soils. When the ground is frozen, and a partial thaw occurs, the ruts are filled with water, and frequently freeze over immediately on the cessation of the thaw, and the wheat is frequently smothered. As far as my experience goes, drilling is, on some soils and in certain seasons, an advantage; in others, an injury. I found also the sweeping wind, rather than the intensity of the frost, has destroyed the wheat. I find northeastern exposures, where it must have been equally cold with other parts of the field, escaped by having the wind arrested by the fences; that sowed by the drill, being in trenches, suffered but little. I sowed last fall four hundred acres, both with drill and hand. The hand-sowing is not worth cutting, whilst the drilled is fair. The same is the case as far as my observation extends."

Livingston County." Wheat that was sown on land cultivated last year in tobacco is in more than an average growing condition. That upon land cultivated in Indian corn less than an average."

MARYLAND.

Cecil County.-"It is difficult to compare wheat sown by drill and broadcast, as nearly all is sown wholly by the one or the other method. Mine was sown broadcast, and it was considerably injured. A neighbor sowed by drill, and his is also injured.

After several experiments, he is rather unfavorable to drilling. He thinks too much open space is left unoccupied between the drills. A part of his ground he drilled both ways, putting on, as he thinks, an equal quantity of seed, or nearly so, in both portions. That drilled both ways has much the best appearance. My own opinion is, that drilled wheat is less injured than broadcast. A few years ago, a neighbor, an Englishman, ribbed a part of his ground in ploughing the second time with a right-hand plough, running each succeeding furrow at the right-hand of the preceding one. He then broadcasted the whole and harrowed. That on the ribbed portion came up as if drilled, only a little wider apart, and was by far the best when harvested. I tried the same method once, and drilled alongside of it. I could see no very material difference in the yield."

Carroll County." The early-sown wheat is very good, but the late-sown is below the average. When will the farmers learn wisdom ?"

NEW JERSEY.

"The reports from this State, and others in the east, show that the winter was favorable, hence no test could be well made of the relative merits of drill and broadcast sowing. In one county of this State, where much wet soil prevails, the broadcast was thought to be injured one-fourth, and the drilled uninjured; and I also find that new land has escaped when equally exposed. Can you give us the philosophy of this?"

MISSOURI.

Crawford County.-"There has been hardly the usual amount of fall wheat sown in this section on account of the drought last fall, which lasted till October 1. Having been sowed late, and got a poor start, a large amount has been frozen out, which will cause our crop in this section to be poor. Spring wheat is not sown here yet; I am satisfied it would do well."

St. Louis County.-"There is unfortunately far too little drilling in of wheat in this neighborhood, so but little can be said by way of comparison, but it is all in favor of the use of the drill."

KENTUCKY.

Mercer County."The past winter has demonstrated to me beyond a doubt the advantage of the drilled over the broadcast sowing of wheat. Owing to the system of labor in Kentucky, and the inability of the negro generally to handle machinery, but little of it has been used until within the last few years, in either sowing or harvesting grain. But from my observation in other States of the present growing crop of wheat, the difference in the mode of sowing is marked, and altogether favorable to the drill. Also, I am satisfied that early sowing and deep ploughing are the best, as attested by the present growing crop."

Garrard County." With regard to the value of the drill over broadcast sowing, I will remark that the drill is an innovation on the 'institution,' and of course very cautiously introduced; requiring more intelligence to work them than brute force, therefore not extensively used. But I think the difference fully as great as I have put it. In that sown broadcast, I think the yield will be less than a third of a crop, while that drilled will be very nearly a full crop-all taken together, a little over half a crop."

Oldham County.-"I have sown with the drill several years and have never had a failure, while broadcast this year nearly all froze out in February and March, or, more properly speaking, froze in the ground. The land was very dry in February, when the extreme cold weather came, which froze the wheat to death, of most of the broadcast sowing, leaving the roots of the wheat in the ground, but entirely dry."

PENNSYLVANIA.

Armstrong County.-"Winter wheat not half a crop; the