The Wilmingtonian., 1823-09-18
AgricWAtWra.
From the American Farmer.
CHEAT, or sometimes called CHESS.

l From the American Farmer.
!. CHEAT, on sometimes caifed CHESS.
\ Essex County, N. Jersey.
Il Mr.. Skinner have been much puZ-
lIzled by reading several publications IN the
Il American Farmer, on the subject OF the
t |nroduction of cheat ard as to its origin,
I whether it was produced from seed OF It's
: own species, or a metamorphose OF wheat
Into weed called cheat, owing to some,
: unknown cause, either from unfavonrableI
: seasons for the cultivation OF wheat, orr
4|from bad location, as TO SOIL, &C. NOW
: ISir, what puzzled me was my total igho-
: rance as to what is called cheat IN Mary
! and, having never heard of such weed
amongst the wheat, or other crops OF grain,
Pin New England, or in the state ot New
: York or New Jersey, in all of which states
land country have been long acquainted
! But from the last American Farmer, u
J plan is proposed for ascertaining the orr
-pin of this same cheat, from which am
led to suppose that it is the same trou-
-Iblesome weed, that in the parts OF the
: country above alluded to, is known as
,|chpss, often growing amongst wheat, and
in fact, other winter crops. l claim TO
;Iknow something of this troublesome weed,
50 frequently seen growing amongst our
gIwbeat. | also know that the generally
y received opinion, respecting its origin IS
that where clean seed wheat is s0wn OF
''Iland liable to be Winter killed, as 1t l.
-oltermed by farmers, from hard irosts II
February and March, when there is no
'sIsnow enough to cover the ground and pro
h' ltect the wheel plants, that an abundance
C. of chess is found growing with the wheat
This also takes place, where water is sui
nc fered to pond and remain on low parts. O
/, a wheat field, for want of regular dram
o. to carry it off, and the wheat is thus II
OF Iiured and many of the plants killed; ye
rim such unfavourable spots chess is see
40 to grow and flourish. Besides this SUI
er posed origin of chess, from unfavourab
ne seasons, &c. | have observed it grown
hSlon newly drained land, where no crop
hr any kind was ever before put into I'll
De- ground; and that in such quantities.
to|could not be supposed to arise from fol
not seed wheat, but from some other caus
IA such as too wet or cold season, that d
'he e|stroyed the wheat plants. How the'
no should turn wheat into chess, | have
onlpretensions of deciding. As to chess whit
aslproduced, am confident, that it will fro
ned its seed reproduce chess, the same as al
other weed. 1t grows up with send
: hard stalk, and with a bushy head, not u
an-llke orchard grass, and about as tall;
hch seed is long and slender, more like oa
est than wheat. From this imperfect descrl
the ton, your farmers will easily know wf
hed Ither your cheat and our chess is the sal
par weed. A farmer who does not 81
. more than 90 or so acres of wheat. m
yingleasily clean his Fl Id of this pernicic
last weed, by passing through the field, a
y oil pulling up all the chess or cheat, beft
ops' the seed is sufficiently ripe to vegeta
their but thosa who SOW fields too large for Il
on experiment, may always clean their Sc
iaty' wheat by washing it in clean water
tloh' chess will swim on the surface, with
lcaimIlgh grains of wheat, and are easily Sc
ye,|rated from the heavy grains OF wheat.
iul' this means all light grains as we'll
Us as as smutty wheat is got rid OF. A. B
pirit
-. SEPTEMBER.-Now comes autul
very % a;n to rean the fruit Of yonr labour. &c
| vi o, o..,,,s shnnIL ha nou, cu+ ;f wall ca
, last tLam .ra vaIrahle Winter rra;n n
urch- tn tty n T. - h.,tor r. rIou@h in q,
flow ,:..ha,, .ha, - h,rr,,,, y coyer;nT
ou"" roots deeper, it endures the winter BET
Gather apples for early cider, but We
not carry much to the still. Clean y
cider barrels with warm water, and \
. ,o,lthe smoke of birthstone. New cider,
of hu- being buried in sandy side-hill, will
npres sweet till spring. Hogs should now
shut up and fattened. Keep them
with clean dry floor. C.dA
wish -.::%*:p
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