The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1807-08-18
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FOR THE ENoSkER.
Il CHOICE KIND OF WHEAT.

Fer or years have beiowed careful attention
upon the culture of particular kind of Wheat euled
from the forward May Wheat, beginning with
fn,all quantity. In this coar(e Of time have made
myief perfectly fatised of its decided fuperiority
in all respects, over any Wheat with which l am ac-
quainted-lt is that Wheat which every attentive
Farmer, who has flowed of the forward kind, may
have ieen riiing fix or eight inches high, with
ttalk and blade of extraordinary ze, and ripsning a.
bent iix days later-its fuperiority on that Wheat
became evidenced from its rapid increafe appearing
at hrtt IN the rates oil, perhaps, than one
to twenty, and in few years fleming to predom-
inate Minutely attentive to it in each fuccelIive
year, have never difterned the flighse change in
the manner OF its growth, in the color or form of
the grain, in the good production of the Crop
ruit, bait nor any accident have disappointed in
Jingle year. The harveft before the laR, got as
much Iced as fufced for towing all my land, and to
fpare little to three four neghbors-Itis re-
marSable, (and the remark is made by an in
different perion who had taken more notice than my
fef9 that crop has failed from the feed of my
Wheat, whit the crops of the neighbohood have
uttered greatly, from the Hs6Gon Fly. Upon my
own Farms never had fuch abundant crops indeed
never faw fuch production lands of the fame qua
lty. That the crops made from the feed of this
Wheat have efcaPed wonderfully, though not exempt
from the evident attacks of the Fly, is a faf-but
whether this elcape ihoud be attributed to accident
mehievous nec, at preent in the fpecies of Wheat,
I cannot pretend TO decide-I can conceive bur one
ground upon which any Wheat can claim fu-
Eeriorty over another in reifing or recurring upon
the OF the Infect, that is the hyperion ze and
trength OF the hraw and of the roots the fr bear
ing iabtance enough in the al fu1an the ripened
ear after receiving the wounds, the latter aording
an extraordinary fupply of nutrment replenh the
interruption by the Fy-l havenever feen any Wheat
Foeiiing 10 large ftalk and blade from it's extra
ordinary branching and the largenefs of the growth
inter the certainty of its ftrong roots. have tri-
ed fairly and fully, the purple ftraw of the yellow
Lomans made trial two years of the yellow bearded
Maryland, (the hyperion kind of tina. clals,) made
Jingle imall experiment; the frft, good wheat,
yet iucceeds not well, becaue it branches not e.
qually, nor grows upon land 70 high the grain too
is interor-The yollow Lomas feems equally fubiea
to ruit with the old Engliih white Whea, of the
bearded the grain pleafed me, but heads 70 fmall,
with only two grains in WHIP, cannot be perfuad-
ed are capable Of yielding large crop independent
OF thefe, one confederation induced to blizzard it.
Cattle (nor any other ffoek) am afraid, will not
eat the chaf, account of the beard, THE
ttraw, excep, on the point of Rarvng-confrmed in
the decided fuPeriority of my Wheat, that
evil OF the ruff, had argument enough for rejecting
all other, and combining myielf to that alone. have
no doubt OF this new ipecies of Wheat being pro-
duct of the forward May, by fome unaccountable
means, as that, in its origin, of the common
EngIilh white Wheat--I believe this, becaule ne
yer law crop OF Wheat, latter IL became a.
mong us IN which this latter and later kind not
intermxed becaufe, the time of this mixture ap
Pearing on my own farm, there feems not to be
Poiibility OF 70 comfortable mixture growing out
OF the accident OF mingled feed, fince none had
hsen upon my land TO my knowledge) grain Of luch
Wheat-and further, becaufe / have never, any
where, feen a wheat nearly refembltng in its growth
grain, Sc. except the May wheat itfef-In the fiz-
efthe talk in its height, and in its hyperion branch
ing, conllt the eminent fuperorty it claims oyer
ther Wheat in its grain appears inferior to the
berlin its production have feen it exceeded
Part OF my CROP in piece of ground put into Tur-
nps, was not flowed until January of the prelent
year-It came not up until March, and YET made it.
felf moa perfectly, the feafon was favorable. The
grain is fhaped nearly like the forward Wheat, its
color fonewhat darker, but much lighter than the
purples4Taw, ir rpens preeifely with that Wheat
the purple flraw. will feHd as foon as convenient
-famples to Mr.. Gallego, Richmond ; Mr. VIM. Pol
lard, Hanover Court Houfe and Mr.. John Lewis,
Fredericksburg, can fpare, perhaps five fix
hundred bu(hels of this Wheat. it may be expected
that hould fay fomething about price, the article
has no Prire-Tt may fuffice to fay, that trae,
few pence, &c. but above the ordinary price, at
market, will content l would not be thought
indifferent TO my ntereG, yet dsRitute of that
dfpofition common to agricultural men, fully to inn
part to others the benefit of dfcovery improve
ment--wifhng inveRigation, that my word or my
judgment may not be reclined upon alone, mention
the names Of the perfons whom ! furnfhed feed
lar fall-Mr. Charles Thompfon, MIR. Wipgfeld
Colby, Mr.. Thomas Mallory Negro Foot, and
MIR. Goodman.
w FoNTAINR.
Hanover, Augua 7, 1907.