Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1858 — NEW WHEAT. [ARTICLE]

NEW WHEAT.

Sir. Thomas W. Harris, of Jackson township, left a sheaf of Alabama wheat with us last Friday, tiie se€d of which he brought from Vigo county. Mr. Harris recommends this wheat as being early, not subject to rust, not liable to be frozen out in winter, and, for these reasons, an unusually sure crop. In Vigo the farmers used to raise of the common wheat some ten or twelve bushels per acre,'hut of this they average twen-ty-five or thirty. Tt grows but three or four feet high, has light straw, and is not liable to fall. Mr. Harris informs us that where this wheat is well known the millers pay for it some five cents a bushel more than for the white.'-.Everybody is invited to call and examine the sample left at this office.