Delaware gazette and peninsula advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1814-1820, 1818-12-26


any other attempt at Improvement, should
not dis courage repetllions. individuals
SOM become tired OF failures and sell
dom repeat unsuccessful experiments.
This shows the USE OF, and necessity for
experimental tormes, could such be es.
tablished and conducted skilfuily, as no
doubt they may be, in dut TIM, ana with
necessary assistance aid experience.
Losses, by failures in experiments Can be
sustained by associations OF public spi,t-
ed individuals, which no one OF the mem
bers would encounter. Successful tx.
periments IN such tai ME would be more
influential because their accuracy and
truth could moi be- doubted.
The I'alavera wheat came into Eng
lard from Spain and was, in the first
Experiments, successful. II became
celebrated as Spring or Summer wheat;
and was imported into our country as a
valuable acquisition. II seems yet to
retain its character; as being, III ITSELF
an excellent Grain but, in the progress
Of English experience, is fitness for the
climate Of E-nsand appears 10 be much
doubted, nor are the times and modes of
culture settled. Its SUCCESS differs ia
\ different countries and, no doubt, in the
variety Ut soils and some esteem il
ST suwn as a winter ,rain. Most pro-
ibsbiy there arc varieties OF this wheat
requiring, respectively, tliHere.t times Of
seeding and culture. Let experiments
Continue TO be made, ON small scale;
and esu is, either favorable or adverse,
Twill be discovered, without any consde-
Irable loss or espens 1t is now uudcr
lexperiment here, by some individuals.
as winter grain ! e as to crop sownn
in the autumn ; but the seed appears to
Ihave arrived TOO late; and the trial may
not turn out a fair one. Some stiuat
from Chill and sew, raj kinds from lig-
land, are also under experiment ; and it
lis to he wished that reports may b.,
"t results. Wheat is the staple pro uct
lof our state and no pains should be
jsparcd IN procuring the best kinds, aud
assiduously attending to thsi, culture.
in the (D:itish) Farmers Journal,
l..~r.-..o.. ...., .o,o, siietc ~ All acc nnt
of the Cape wheat which had turned cut
very u,iavorably. This grain ha, a so
Ibeen unsuccessful H. tins country. In
the same paper, farmer states, that his
Cape wheat was not worth ihrcshng
but I" my aayara, some sown in the
(auumn, ard some IN the Spring, art both
xcelient," Another correspondence ,e-
lprobates the Cape wheat aid 81 The
'aiavaia, lie sa, s. all have secb ia
very inferior i'll quality aud il grown,
{. land cultivated To amy extent, fear would
/. 1oe difficult 10 dispose Of" AnoVheI7
) States. that he had sowet!, Gin jar, some
+ aiavara wheat, which has done well
= aud think, promises to br CONSIDERS
bic advantage to the agriculturists.
u In the Farmers Journal, sept. list
i. sls, a farmer asserts. from actaai ex-
; pertinent, that the Ialayara is a winter
u grain, He sowetl it on the 18th sept.
= and =" it was ready to cut Ten days sooner
and superior in quality, and
:, would make, when ground, several
% pounds more flour per bushel, and oil
better quality, than the common Sorts
: The same farmer cultivated it as spring
!. grain, and it TUNED out i'll, though well
attended, being bligh,ed and light. He
quotes the opinion and experience of an.
I other farmer, similar to bis own.
Talayara lies in the heart of Spain
! very far south west of any part of Arre'
lyon, which latter being bounded by the
allPyrennees, and in a more northern eli
i mate, may furnish to us seed grain more
CON, enial with our own, it being more Z
corn country, than most other parts
! spain The Arragon whea, may hav,
=, superior properties, but the change o
seed constitutes much of the witchcry O,