Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1817-06-13
bearded, instead fLawler, as the ground is of
THOMAS HUNT0N.

yoodGuallty.
Having sustained in common with my neigh !
bors, almost the entire loss of my growing crop |
Of wheat from the tavaees of the Fly. 1 WAS in !
duced 10 visit the neghbOurlioods of Haymar I,
ket. and auckland, for the purpose OF examin- |
ing the Fly proof wheat, known in these parts of
the country by the uarne of I.awler wheat, and
cultivated this year in considerable quantity,
by MesSrs. John Love, Griffin Stith. WIN. *
Thomas Hunton, and others; was fully salts
fed, upon viewing the respective farms of
these gentlemen, that this wheat is entitled IL
the character of Fly proof the tieldsof each of
Them exhibiting the most abundant crops of
wheat have ever seen, below the Rurun
Iouniain. and unless some future diSas; shall
hefil them will probably Weld an average of
from fifteen 10 twenty bushels per acre; il is
proper 10 remark that or each of the farms of
the above gentlemen, except VIM. Hunten, l
found several ofthe other kinds OF wheat. usu-
ally cultivated III Virginia. Such as The golden
bearded. purple straw, and white wheat, grow
ing on some farms in the same field, with the
Fly-prOof or Lawler wheat, on others fence
or road only separating them, and III every in
stance the fly had inluredthe former very ma
terially; while the latter or Fly-proof was left
nnhurt; I have therefore no hesitation in re-
commencing this wheat to the attention of eve
~ tarmet in Virginia. 10 he sowed in prefer
ence of any other: fOF myself am fully cou-
vinced, under present circumstances, ofthe fn-
tility Of sowing any other kind known among
us in this state
GFl2RA RID ALEXANDER, Sen.
7, Owen Thomas do hereby certify that i'm
December 1911, WIS in Chester county
renrs vlvania, on a visit 10 my friends, where
! understood that the ZONES white wheat
was cultivated and was told that since the in
PRODUCTION of tia; wheat there they had not ex-
perienced any injury from the Hcssiau Fly.
intended to have brought some of it TO Vir-
ginia but by different occurrences was pre-
vented atterm return found NTr. James
lawler ofihe same county lived in, had
ell
had seeded it, got seed Of that, aud have
sowed II for four years past it has never been
injured nv the fiy. sowcd part of my crop
OF LAWYER wheat last fall in the first week i'll
September, II is now the best wheat have,
III proportion 60 the quality of the land & has
been not at all injured; by the Fiy part of
my crop last year was injured by the rust, and
] am satisfied it was owing TO particular
not believe that the LAWYER wheat is more
snbjectto rust than OTHER kinds; have sow
oWTN THOMAS.
!, John Brown, of Fauquier county. 10 here
by certify, that on the IItl of September
1913, mixed bushels of the Iawler wheat
with Of the purple straw. aud SOwed them
together, and sowed adjoining wholly of tie
iawler; that the purple straw was almost
wholly destroyed bv the fly, and the TawIer
mixed with il uniniured by it, and made as
heavy crop rs might have heen expected
from the quantity ofseed but not near so hea-
Wy as tte LAWYER wheat adjoining II, which was
unmiNed with any other. have continued to
sow of the LAWYER Kind and have not had any
OF my crops of that kind injured BY the ay
ground part OF my crop at MIR Loves mill
last season. aud not twenty one barrels of
Hour TO the hundred bushels and -four OF ex-
ceiicnt quality. / found among tile LawIer
wheat some heads ofred Chaff wheat the grain
OF deep red 7 pick ed ont i'm n e fail of 1914
pint of tina wheat and sOwed il bv itself-the
HeSsian fly deprecated on that ard entirely
DESTROYED it,
JOHN BROWN.
commenced sowing the LAWYER wheat in
iStS. x Lave continued to cultivateit ever since
sewing generally several kinds and have
found il always TO resist the hv, and not more
subject TO other disasters than the otiIe- wheat.
out It isabOUt week later. Finding the Law
Ter wheat foul with cookie and cheat, Cthe
cause of which ! know not) had determined
not ia SOW any last fall, butat length coucnd-
ell TO SOW 90 bushels in my corn land and
sowed my tallow Of the Mountain white wheat
y now find the latter very iniuredby the
fly, and the JaIyscr not at all Injured and al
though the land which was faIlOwed is much
richer than the corn !aud it will not make as
much peracre, from the present appearance
Last year had four l.inds of wheat in the
same field, and nowfind no volunteer wheat
only where the I.awier wheat was sown. and
believe that .he fly took the whole Of the other
volunteer wheat last fall, and did not touch
the Lawler.
JOHN HAMPTON.
1, Joseph Ball, of Fauquier county, do here
by certify. thar in 1916, ploughed in. In The
month ofAugust. my stubble, n part of which
was o: the Lawler .nAeat and part of the pur-
pie straw, with an intention to sow itaeafn in
wheat; that the wheat which came M in the
purple straw Stuhb'e was destroyed BY the Hes
sslan fly, hut that which came up from the Law
Ter wheat stubb!e was not injured. Both these
Kind OF wheat came ur about the last Of Au-
gust, or first of September; from this circuJn
stance, and the general experience have had
In the cultivation Of the Lawlsr wheat I am
convinced il may be sowed at an early period.
without risk from the fy.
JOSEPH BALL.
have made one crop of the Lawer wheat.
which was ofeNcelient quality but I thought
the yield was not quite so greatas that ofsome
eiher wheat the HeSSidn fly did not iuiure it
i'm the slightest degree. Ny present crop is
chiefly OF the j-awlcr wheat, and very slightly
injured by the hy, as there can only here and
there be found an affected bunch, after tile
strictest search, aud MY other wheat The
Mountain white and the Baltimore bearded Ia
so injured as not to leave room to expect any
thing like halt crop. am ofopinon that the
LAWYER VIII bear sowing carly in Septem-
her, without danger ofmateriai injury from the
fly. | will add, that my seed wheat was a lit-
tie mixed and the quantity of fly-injured is
not, ! think, greater than the mixture Of O.
Their wheat.
ISAAC FOSTER.
May %, IsI7.
obtainedlrom my neighbour, James Law
Ter, in the fall of 1871, half bushel of wheat,
of which he brought the seed from Chester
county, Pa. on account of its resisting the
Hessian fly. | sowed il in November and raj
sed seven and a half bushels, which sowed
in 1912, and raised one hundred and ten, and
since continued to sow said wheat: nv CTOos
last year and this are entirely of that kind
would sow no other, being Satisfactorily con.
WINGED, from experiment and observation. that
the fly would not affect it. believe said wheat
is of superior quality to any raised in this
neighbourhood for some years as Il proof
Mr.. Love gave me for my last crop barrel Of
-four, in the hundred bushels, more than for
81 IL. l.