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It is the best wheat I ever raised or saw. I sowed one quart and got from it three bushels of beautiful wheat weighing 63 pounds to the bushel, which took the first premium at our county fair. I have been offered $15 a bushel for my seed, but would not part with a handful of it. If I could not get more like it, I would not sell the three bushels I raised from the quart for $100. WM. STEABNER, Sorlien's Mill, Yellow Medicine Co., Minn.

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Transcriber's Notes:

Italics are indicated with underscores. Punctuation and hyphenation were standardized. Missing letters within words were added, e.g. 'wi h' and 't e' were changed to 'with' and 'the,' respectively. Footnote was moved to the end of the section to which it pertains. Duplicate words, e.g. 'in in,' were removed.

Substitutions:

--> for pointing hand graphic.
'per' for a graphic in the 'Markets' section, e.g. 'lambs $3@8 per head.'

Other corrections:

'Pagn' to 'Page' ... Table of Contents entry for 'Entomological'
'Frauk' to 'Frank' ... Frank Dobb's Wives, ... in Table of Contents
'101' to '191' ... '190-191.' Table of Contents entry for 'Literature'
'Dolly' to 'Dally' to ... 'Dilly Dally' ... in Table of Contents
'whcih' to 'which' ... point upon which I beg leave ...
'pollenation' to 'pollination' ... before pollination
... following pollination ...
'some' to 'same' ... lot received the same treatment ...
'two' to 'to' ... asking me to buy him ...
'gurantee' to 'guarantee' ... are a guarantee against them ...
'Farmr' to 'Farmer' ... Prairie Farmer County Map ...
'or' to 'of' ... with an ear of corn ...
'1667' to '1867' ... tariff of 1867 on wools ...
'earthern' to 'earthen' ... earthen vessels ...
'of' added ... the inside of the mould ...
'factorymen' to 'factory men' ... Our factory men will make ...
'hear.' missing in the original.
'heigth' to 'height' ... eighteen inches in height,...
'Holstien' to 'Holstein' ... the famous Holstein cow ...
'us' to 'up' ... the skins are sewed up so as to ...
'postcript' to 'postscript' ...contain a postscript which will read ...
'whlie' to 'while' ... cluster upon them while feeding ...
'Varities' to 'Varieties' ... New Varieties of Potatoes ...
'arrangment' to 'arrangement' ... conclude the arrangment ...
'purfumes' to 'perfumes' ... with certain unctuous perfumes ...
'Mr.' to 'Mrs.' ... continued Mrs. Gunkettle,...
'accordi?gly' to 'accordingly' ... a romantic eminence accordingly...
'ridicuously' to 'ridiculously' ... was simply ridiculously miserable.
'wabbling' to 'wobbling' ... they get to wobbling,...
'sutble' to 'subtle' ... Hundreds of subtle maladies ...
'weightt' to 'weight' ... for weight of 200 lbs ...
'Recipts' to 'Receipts' ... lambs--Receipts 7,700 head;...