Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1817-06-13
JOHN IOVF,
THOMAS HINTON.
GERHARD ALEXANDER. Ser
GE0kGF -. PICKET,
GRIFFIN STITH,
MARTIN MADDUX,
OWEN THOMAS.

have sowed the Lawier wheat for four wears
past on the auckland farm. and have never
known the crop injured by the HesSian FIv:
thus Year ii has an unusually healthfui s. abufl-
CANT appearance. have also SOwed last fail of
the bearded kind, and early wheat both Of
winch are much injured by the fiy; the early
white wheat in less degree than the other. vet
the injury TO that is not less than one half The
crop. am enabled to make am0re accurate
estimate oi the injury done the early wheat
from the circumstance of'the same ground hay.
iig been two years ago in LaWler wheat, ap-
pearlng TO be douby as thick then, although
there has been no c1hausting crop since taken
from the land, and il has received t,eo dyes
sings of Plaster, and the present year much
more pr0Pitious TO the growth of plants than
that: reaped of tile LawIer wheat TWENTY
five bushels TO the acre do not think the pro.
duct this year in the early wheat will exceed
ten or twelve bushels, If what remains is bar-
vested; bGtit is daily falling from the ingicti-
Ons of the fly: think ! shall lose seven hun.
dred bushels, by sowing G5 bushels of the Nav
wheat last fall
The first yearI sowed the Iawler wheat. I
reaped eleven for one, which was a full croD
for the quality Of the ground from The land
adjoining tin the same field did not get more
than three Tor one; that year many crops
were destroyed by the rust * rot; my i.d.yler
wheat was not hurt. 'rhe next wear ! sowed
seyenty-five bushels Of it and one hundred and
ninety five of other kinds, (mdking270 bushclsE
made more from the fawleT wheat than ali
the rest. The taId year l Sowed Of il nearly
my whole crop, which in respect both TO guam
THY and quality was the hest ever made from
the same number Of acres. The last fall soNed
ninety bushels Of the bearded, and three hun
dred and scveniy.ouc Of the Lawler wheat,
~ think there is no part of the Iawler wheat
OF ninety bushels seeding, which will not fpre-
sept appearances are reulized, produce three
fold more tliau tic bearded.
The productofthe LawIer wheat iu -four, is
as great, think, as any other of the white
s,iieais, and the quality US excellent as anv (
have seen. There were ground at my mill
last season upwards of FIVE thousand bushels
Of IL, 10 a good profit, after giving a barrel
more Of snperfre -four for each one hundred
bushels, thau IS customary for red wheat.
JOHN LOVE.
In 1872 or 1873, obtained one bushel and
tlfree pccks Of the Lawler wheat, sowed it late,
aud although apparently inimcj by tie rust,
made twenty one and one hait bushels o. mcr-
charitable wheat; my crop that year was mate
rally injured By The fiy, excSptthe above small
quantity. Lasty year commenced sowing about
Inc 18th sept. that Is now ihe most promis-
ing part Of my crop, aud appesrsto be entire
iy exempt from The fly; aud although have
found occasionally ty ~ fiic wheat. ou strict
examination 1 am left TO doubt whether it is
nc confined entirely TO The mixture which is
generally found in the wheat; neither has it
| ever been injured since by thefust. Numerous
| instances aud experiments made BY different
| persons near me, IN several years past, are
! such as cOnstran me 20 believe that the Law
1 ier wheat proydondaliy from sou,e cause, al
/ mOStif nor entirely exempt from the rdvares
| OF the Hessian F!y; havc soWed last fall a.
! yOHt fOur hundred bushels cffhe iawieF Mind
! nd twenty Of fne bearded; / think shall not
/ make more lhsn "a third Of "a crop from the
I bearded wheat owing 10 the dcpfedari0rs OF
;he liy, ard calculate ON loss Of ffO hundred
bushels, frOm having seeded the twenty OF