Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1824-03-25

that 'then there is no balm in Gilead
no physician there"
Blightcd in our hope and prospects,
as to principal crops for many years,
sometimes destroyed or injured mate
rally, by Hessian fly, and then by
frost, or beth, no effectual remedy has
hitherto been known 10 Us. Now /
feel great picasorein communicating to
the society, some information recie we'd
drring the past winter, from Mr. Elk
nan Watson, president of the Berkc-
shire Ag ricullural Society, in Massa
huset,s together with bis pamphlet,
entitled, History of the rise, progress,
and existing state of that society !"
On the back, or cover of this pamph-
let, will be seen list of IL varieties
of grain, Just then arrived from the
sou,h Of Spain, 1919; beginning with
No. /, styled "hard white wheat"
opposite which is an astertick referring
to manuscript note, Ipresume, by the
aa.hor, which copy verbatim. This
wheat is now successfully cultivated
from the above sampled id some of
he western counties in the state of
New York; its stem is small, and so
compact. as completely to resist the
Hessian fly, as has been abundantly
proved this year growing by TIE side
ofother fields Of wheat, which suffered
greatly. The grain is full--large, as
lard as f1nt-with thin husk, and
makes the very best of liour-as white
As snow. Il resists the winter better
than any other, and ripense IL days
.arli n" If the experiment of grow
ing this wheat by the side OF 0 her fields
and its succeeding when it, neigh
1ours was destroyed, be not conclu.
,lve as to its resistance ofthc fly, (be
cause we have seen that to happen
with fields of wheat, both ofihe same
sorO yet, from the character of the
stem, it is highly probable the fly would
not select it as Il location congenal 10 its
propagation. The account of this wheat,
now detailed, is SO imposing, and from
SO respectable and disnterested
source, that it is submitted to the soci
'cty to decide whether it will lend its
agency to procure quantity of it worth
distribution, or leave It to individual
|enterprize. If it viii! answer the pur.
pose attributed to it, we can render 10
greater benefit to the agricultural inter
est OF our county, than by successful
of its use While we are
on the subject olthis destructive insect.
Hessian fly, will take the liberty of
warning the public of an error gener-
ally prevalent, but by no means one of
much consequence. An insect much !
resembling the Hessian fy, will often !
be found, even in winter, in, or rather |
aliitle above, every joint of the wheat
straw. In the different stages Of mag
got, chrysaEs and parent: it occupies
the hollow tube of the stalk, and luu-
like the fiy) not the lomina; OF course
it does but little injury, as | perceived
from a bunch of wheat, furnished me
by my worthy friend, the vice prcsi,
dent. This insect, Was informed by |
a gentleman in Fairfax coGnty. n &c I
and critical observer ofthcse shiE:gs is
called the joint worm, and not the !
Hessian fly. Some Euomologiats liav. |
ing fallen into this error, as | deem it,
these remarks are thrown cut for thsre,
or my correction.
/ am sorry, brother farmers, Chat
have so little TO lay before you, cheer
ing to you, as tillers of the earth. In
the prospect before us, there is fright
tul era, fall Of suffering humanity, and
portentous forebodings, which may
reach us but which we hope God may
avert In che portion of Europe, IL
berty has been Frustrated by the arm
Of despotisrn; in another she lies blee-
ding --slrcuded in death, and bathed
in blood - History will record the e
pooh in its blacklist page, and warn
posterity to avoid repetition OF the
dreadful scene We must abide the
gathering storm, and if driven from the
repOse OF our own vine and figtree,
breast it WHEN it breaks, like men de-
termIned upon the salvation Of their
freedom, ~-heaven's best gift to man.
In the mean, time, by the practice of
economy and industry, we may strug-
gle through the embarrassing time,
and avoid the error which led TO them.
An appeal tc tie charity and sym
patty ofthe society becomes necessa-
ry, and as an apology for the poverty