Spring wheat does well on soils which heave and throw out winter wheat. It is deemed a good policy to sow some spring wheat every year, that, if the winter wheat fails, a crop may still be on hand.
An account of the best varieties of winter wheat, we extract from the _Western Farmer and Gardener_:
“WHITE FLINT.—A winter wheat, very white chaff, withstood Hessian fly well, has yielded fifty-four bushels to the acre, weighing from sixty-three to sixty-seven pounds per bushel. _Improved White Flint._—This from early selection from the first. _White Provence, from France._—A white wheat—shows small heads, well filled and large. _Old Red Chaff._—White wheat, old—subject to fly. _Kentucky, White Bearded._— White wheat, sometimes called Canadian Flint—early, good for clay soils. _Indiana Wheat._—White wheat—berry white and large, ripens early, not so flinty as the White Flint, good flour, valuable for clayey soils. _Velvet Beard, or Crate Wheat._—White wheat—English variety, chaff reddish, berry large and red, straw large and long, heads long and well filled, beard very stiff, flour yellowish. _Soule’s Wheat._—A mixed variety, heads large, berry white, not very hardy. _Beaver Dam._—Old variety, berry red, flour yellowish, ripens late. _Eclipse._—English, not hardy. _Virginia White May_, from Virginia.—Winter, good flour, chaff white. _Wheatland Wheat_, from Virginia.—Chaff red, heads well filled, berry red, hardy. _Tuscan Bald_, from Italy in 1837.—Berry large and white, not hardy, flour good. _Tuscan Bearded._—Head large, still less hardy. _Yorkshire_, from England, ten years ago.—Mixed variety of white and red chaff, bald, berry white, good flour, liable to injury from insects, subject to ergot. _Bellevere Tallavera._—White variety from England, head large, tillers well, not hardy, insects like it much. _Pegglesham_, English.—Head large, berry white, and medium sized, tender for our winters—(all this is calculated for New York State.) _Golden Drop_, English.—Berry red, flour not first rate. _Skinner Wheat._—Produced from crosses, berry red, chaff white, hardy, yield good, sixty-four pounds to the bushel. _Mediterranean._—Chaff light, red bearded, berry red and long, very flinty, flour inferior. _Hume’s White Wheat_ from crosses.—A beautiful white wheat, berry large, bran thin, hardy and a valuable variety. _Blue Stem._—Cultivated for thirty-three years, berry white, sixty-four pounds to the bushel, flour superior, bran thin, and very productive. _Valparaiso Wheat_, from South America.—Chaff white, bald, berry white, bran thin, a good variety.”