Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1807-09-04
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email .suantisy To this course ot,ims
have made myseK perfectly satisfied OF 90
decided superiority, in allresPects, over a.
ay wis 81 with which ! am acqualnted 4
S. thar swkrat which every astensivesfarmsr
who has sowed of the forward kind, m sy
have seen risirg six righrinehes higher,
with an car, stalk and blade Of extraotdina.
.ry size, and ripening about six days later !
It's suprriorityon thalWhess became evideoe
sdlrom iis.rapid increase, appearing FIRST
ia. he rates 81 perhaps no,ssnafeAhau one
10 twenty, and ia a.few Eearsseenipg to
pre- dominate Minu.eiy attentive 80 il IN
each successive gear i have uever discerned
the slightest ehanse.in the manner Of ts
growth, in the color orforaa Of the grain,
ntf in tie prediction of me crop; russ
blast, nor sny accidsa, have disappointed
me in single 81 ear. The harness before
the las. got as, mach seed as.suiacedior
sowing all my land, and toss7are 4 lnile %
three orsfour reighbors. Il 'srematkable.
Iand4he remark 10 made BY 40 indifferent
personswho had taken -more notice than
myself, } that not one crop had failed from
theseed Of my wheat, whilst the crops &.
the neighbo,hood have suffered greatly
from the Hessirn Fly .-Upon nay own
farms ] never had such sbuucsnt crops !;
indeedI never saw such psodactioa CD
lands of,he same ,quslay. That the crops
capped wonderfully, though not exempt
from the eviden, a,tacks of the Fly, is a
fact. But whether this escape should be
attributed 10 accident, or 10 any power Of
resistance TO the ravages Of that mischieys
Gus ipsec, in preserving this pecies OF wheat
cannon pretend to.deeide. lean conceive
but,one 81 ound Upon which any one kind
whealcap Claim a,superiorty oscran other
10 resisting or reenrripg upon The spols Of
the insect, that is the superior size and
streng,h OF The straw, and Of the roots, the
s6rssk.aring substance enough 10 the stalk
10 sustain the sripened. ear, af,er rcceiv.
ing the wounds, the latter sfoi dug an
extraordinary as,,nrly. - r c.
7pIenis The ln,erup,iea by The Fly. have
never seen any wheat possessing SO large
stalk aud Blade; from its extraordinary.
branching and the largeness ofthe growth
infer the Ger ainty Of i;s strong roots
/ have tried, fairly ard folly, the purple
straw; Of the yellow Lomss l made TRIAL
two years of the yellow bearded Mary.
land Che superior kind of that c'ass) ]
made siaele mall experiment Theirs,
good wheat, YET succeeds Eotas well
beeanse It branches MOI equally no. grows
upon land SO high, the gran tools irferi.
or. The yellow Lomas seems equally
subject TO rust, with the old English white
wheat cf the bearded, The grainpleased me,
BIZ, heads 80 small, with only TWO grains
in whisr, cauno. be persuaded ere Gee
pab!e Of yielding a large crop. independ
ect ofthese one consideration induced mt
to discard il. Cattle nor any other stock,
az, afraid will not eat the chat ca &C.
count ofits beard, Dor even the straw,cx >
cept on the pojn. OF starving confirmed
in the decided, superiority Of my OVID
wheat, over that evil orihe rus,,I had argu.
.mes, enough for rejecting all other aud
tcol6oipg myself TO tina, alone. ! have
sno doubt. of this new sprciss ct wheat
sbslng product of the forward May, by
some unaceosn,able means as that 10 lis
sorigin, was.of the COO, mon Eagllshwhite
wheat. II believe this, becan.e.I never
cav a crop Of wheat (atter II became
common among ns)in which this latter and
later kind was no, inlermixed because at
the time of thissmixture appearing upon
my own farm, there seems to b., oct e
possibility of so considerable as.nnlxture
Egrowing auuof the accident OF mingled
seed, since there had net been. upon mylsnd,
I,oemy knowledge, 4 grain ef such wheat,
and further because have never any
where seen whss, neasly resembling j, 10.
it's growth. grain. &c. except the May
whea,ilself.
10 the sizesas The atslk. in its height, and
p. 4 !.