Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1826-06-30

VI ChHei bS INGENIOUS mere mentioned,
Will have the informs alton 10 due time.
From the Maysville Eagle.
The WEEViL.
he inquiry ol aimos, every farmer is,
" How shall We preserve our whea, from
the weevIl 7"
we answer--thresh il immediately.
clean II from The CHAT, spread II IN
barn or open room, ana II il ACQUIRES
the least warmth, SUR II daily.
lhe wheat which We received abou.
Inc nfst OF this month, which then had
some weevii IN the grain, we found heat
ed IN lew days. We spread and con-
sIantly stirred II for about TWO weeks;
those then III, ate their way ou nome
have since bred in lit now lies in bulk
without heating and we consider il great
ly preferable 10 thal which we are daily
receiving from the lhreshing floor.
we nave how several thousand bush.
els OF wheat on hand, which was thresh-
ed from The shock and from The stack
seIore the weesli commenced their rava-
ses. II has been lying in gamers near
sixty days. aid has been kept cool by
frequent stirring; the weeyil mas NOT
loutheG--and We have no hesitation in
saying lei 'helr ravages be what they
may IN the stack, wheat thus cleaned
and kept cool, will in all cases be FREQ
IRON the gyms weeyil.
we are now receiving lot of thou.
sand bushels, which was lhreshed III Ju.
~ aud early in August, run through tho
ian and spread III a large barn. / IS
periec iy cool, and has not received tho
least damage. Al small lots, thrssbed
and Cleaned al about that time, and Kent
cool, We hnd In he same good order.
IL Is also SAID 'hal some who ihrtshed
ano peuned their wheat IN the chat be-
tore The weevll were visible, have pre.
served 1t; ouI OF this We speak with
some doubt.
Nenow hearmany speaking OF thresh.
ing aho slowing away IN the chafi. But
those we would advise TO be cautious:
there IS scarce a stack OF wheal 10 The
country enureiy Tree from weevii. and
mat which contains but a small portion
will heat ii packed away in the chat.
We have heard some wild theorists ie.
commend this mode TO heat the wheat
| which they say, "wiil kill the weevil
aud destroy the egg from which they
hatch"
his reminds US of the old story Of
the buchanan who set fire to his barn
10 dlves II oi rats; tor We know that
wheat thus heated will never afterwards
grow, nor viii The -four made from il
reward the miller ior his labor oi grind.
ing.
Ii is not our design to enter into the
natural history OF this insect. We are
deslrous that the farmers should pre-
serve their present and future crops Of
wheat from destruction; and being ri il
ling tina, they should profit by our short
experience we freely tell them " that
which we know"
Ihls much, however, we will add, as
mere opinion. We believe they are
produced from an egg which, after being
laid in the gram, requires d certain ce-
| gree OF heat 10 produce amin alicn 80
That portion which is produced by the
straw in the stack during the SUNNI err
end tall, appears to be natures cheice.
| is against that portion OF heat we
would have the farmers TO guard, when
We advise them to thresh ana keep heir
~hea, cool. Whether the egg is depo-
sl,ed in the wheat or III the stack, we pre-.
end not to say, but we have rather con-
| cIuded in the latter; but we can with
safety say, that the wheat now on hand,
| which never went through the sweat, or
which has never attained that hea. to
which nearly all wheai in the stack is
subject, whether it contains the egg
or not, has produced no weevii; and
that which we have recently received
| from the stack, ceases to hatch or in any
wise produce them, SO soon as we can
get it perfectly cool.
| On these and other observations 100
numerous for insertion, we advise those
who would preserve their present crops,
10 ,hresh and clean them INN ediately ;
and those who would hereafter effe ctu-
ally guard against the flying weevil, adj
wise 10 thresh from the shock, or before
| the wheat takes the sweat.
N. & N. DIXON.
The Ohio Steam mn, Mays }
pitte, Sehta2o, 1925.