Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1818-06-11

bushels, purple straw red wheat l144,
making a total Of 1869 bushels; exhibi-
ting minus eleven bushels only.
The land from which this crop was
raised was sc acres Of fallow and 30 Of
corn ground, planted in the order of 4
feet by 6, two stalks to the hill the wide
rows always in the direction OF N. and
8. for the advantage Of seeding mithout
digging up the corn crop. So that the
average produc, Of an acre proved to be a
very little under IS bushels, OF 20 ID.
weigh,-givins 900 VT. per acre. Fran
the practice Of keeping, twelve working
oxen and thirty six other horned cattle
annually upon the 9fas Of wheat' can ex-
elusive reliance on it for fodder or hay'
during winter; land without questioning
the fact,) in better condition than my
neighbours, whose "re!iance" was, in-
deed, exclusively on corn and its otfal ;
and moreover, since from the frequent
stopping and banking Of the team on SO
level surface, the extraordinary weight
of the whole load compared with the gram,
it cannot be deemed extravaganf to put
down the product thus per acre-wheat
900 VT. offal, three fold goo VT. making
a total Of $500 lbs. For il twelve oxen
worked in three large wheel plousss'
turning over a lay of eight to twelve
inches wide, and five to nine inchee deep,
in the month Of August did actually ave.
rage four and a half acres PEI day thro'
that month, without a mouthful Of corr,
or its cfil, surely eight chosen ones were
equal to the drawing Of 1000 VT. on a
plane in dry weather, the distance Of five
TO seven hundred yards.
These premises, however unsatisfac.
tory they may be to Others, warrant my
conclusions; they go to rescue the cha.
racter Of a subject, which from time i'm.
memorial, has been honored and che
rished in the old world, as the most va
liable Of its species from the savage COL
lision Of an indigenous offspring Of the
wildernesses in the new, Nevertheless
were I to philosophise little, it could
be demonstrated, in contradiction to ce~-
tain doctrines Of the old world. that vege
table bodies as we'll as animal bodies, are in
fact, Improved by their translation to this
"corn country" But, why should our
political and patriotic predictions suffer
a good and estimable-a substantial To-
reigner-one. who throughout the revolu
ton furnished US with English Bread
to be assailed BY mistaken zeal, to de-
grade its fair reputation +? Ifmy conclu
sions are not egregiouly erroneous, they
prove that Whsat is the grain that " con
tributes in the greatest degree to the
profit Of the agriculturist, who possesses
a soil not so friable as those generally on
the Rappahannock and other waters be-
low the falls north of the James. Let us
dilate thu subject for the ascertainmen'
of the real merits of the parties. is worthy
of the patience Of every farmer around US.
The Indian corn plant acquires its full
maturity in about seven months. The
wheat plant in about ten. These terms
of time are predica'ed upon an average
Of the several sort, Of the two species Of
grain and, it is referred to the greater
intelligence Of others to detect any un-
fairness in the comparion, since there are
few annual plants that exhibit greater va
rieties, more especially the Indian corn
plant Is it not witlda the scope Of CON-
mon observation and reflection, that those
bodies, animal and vegetable, that arrive
at the greatest bulk in the shortest time,
are less compact, less solid, less durable J
and, are found likewise in just ratio,
in regard to their weight Wheat is ad.
United to be the heaviest Of all grain, and
consequently the greatest Impoverished Of
the soil. Butt it be cut before il be ripe,
the case is widely different" it is the
ripcning Of the seed that exhausts the sOil'
Of otis soluble matter" II, as before
stated, corn gives 100 VT and whea'
oO0 ut surely the Dertectipg and ripen.