Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1836-11-16
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prevents much danger from blight or blast.
The same may be said of the crop after
peas. Pasture land will produce an ex-
cellent crop, if turned over with top
dressing of ashes, say FIVE or six bushels
TO the acre, even if no manure is turned in,
and perhaps may be the most sure method
of raising wheat in this part of the coun-
try l find by my own experience,
strengthened by the observations of DR..
Bates that on all sand y soils with gravel
as subsoil, or clay if it is FIVE feet deep;
steeped or leached ashes and clay as
manure, will ensure the crop of wheat.
Second, as to the Touring or grinding
of wheat. When we have raised the
wheat, we ought to be able to make the
best of the article it is capable of, and |
hope your readers will pardon me if l re-
late few facts and give some reasons
why this business should be better attended
to, if we wish to compete with other wheat
growing countries. 1t seems to be neces-
sary to keep the mill-stones apart by the
hardest corn, in order to get either fine
-four or the greatest quantity. | once
carried to the mill in Winthrop, one and
half bushels, and paid the miller, Mr..
Stanley, for grinding it, instead of giving
him the toll as usual
After the wheat had passed through the
cleanser, | scattered in three quarters Of
corn, as evenly as l could, and weighed
the fonr it made. 1t was allowed by all
to be finer and lighter than that made
from the same wheat without the corn.
1t yielded 40 l-3 lbs. to the bushel.-
Four bushels would have made 1876 lbs.
of flour and fraction over, which would
of course make fraction over BARREL
Mr.. Sanborn of Wales stood by. He
had brought some very good wheat to mill
and he put in two quarts of corn to the
bushel which he raised year before last
He afterwards told me that he obtained
81 It's. to the bushel.
Try it brother Farmers, and nv word
for it, you will never grind, or rather fat
out wheat, as you have done, and give the
residue to the hogs, calling it wheat bran,
when there is atleasl ten pounds of flour in
1t. l am told that at the South, it is always
done, and may we not expt ct hat one fourth
at least OF corn is put in, and then it is re-
ally better than when none at all is put in
had in my bushel and a half, nine
pounds and three fourths of coarse or
second sort, so that in fact | had more
than fifty pounds of eatable -four. NV
wheat was very dry, if it had for shot
time been placed over some steam, so as
to moiSten it little, the hull would have
been less cut by the MILL and the -four
would have been better.
This l am also told is sometimes prac-
tised at some flour mills Will any far
mer longer neglect to raise wheat and
grind it in the best manner, and pay away
all his money for -four and be in conse-
quence as poor as church mouse? Or
will you take care of yourselves. 1t re-
mains with you to say. Without econo-
my no one can expect to have much, but
with it, and little industry, every thing.
If you neglect to raise your bread, or
II you do false little, and give one fifth
TO the hogs under the name Of wheat bran,
at the same time extol Southern -four and
prefer 1t to your own, merely because it
is ground better and finer, you must ex-
pect yourselves and the State to lag be-
hInd the others in wealth and improve
ments. Our mills | believe are good, and
L have ever found the mille,s accommo-
dating. Look to yourselves, brother
Farmers E111Au WooD.
Winthrop, Aug 1886.