Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1838-03-21

eat the bread of spring wheat so as to be
abe TO sell the mcrchantab bic" wheat.
/ confess, Mr.. Tucker. am not much
pleased with this suggestion. 1t does not
set SO well on my stomach as the delight
ful and excellent bread Of the beautiful
/" Italian" Nor do /, as a farmer, much
like the idea, that seems couched under
the suggestion, of being willing to con-
sumo an article Of inferior character, in
order to be enabled to sell the superior
merchandise" one. -
The tendency of this communication.
Mr.. Tucker, think is to do great inlus
tice to the character and value of spring
wheat; greatly to iniure the interests Of
the wheat grower by giving the culture
Of this wheat, only second or third rate
place in his estimate of the value of spring
crops.
consider the introduction of the Ital-
ian spring wheat into the country, to be
worth millions of dollars. 1t will be
worth millions in single season, soon as
it has had time to become generally spread
through the extent of our wheat growing
states, so as to be in the hands Of every
cultivator.
With US. winter wheat is becoming a
very UNCERTAIN crop. For two wears it
has signally failed in your section of the
state. For four years it has, to a consid-
cradle extent, failed in this section
sowed eighty acres last year, and harvest
ed twenty. The hazards of a spring
crop now consider less than a winter
crop. think the chance of drouth, in
season and degree to destroy a spring
crop, less than the chance of destruction
to the winter crop by winter killing, or
blight and rust
Now as to the character and value of
spring wheat. L." thinks it worth Is
to IL per cent less than winter wheat.
The largest deduction have known on
the achtte ehaf spring wheat, from the
price Of the best white flint winter wheat,
has been to 10 cents per busheI, when
the white flint has commanded I2s. And
this not to al inexperienced miller, but
one Of extensive business, and who manu-
lectures for the best markets. 1t is not
the quality of flour, but the compleziOn
that gives to winter wheat the preference
over spring wheat together with the fact,
that the former produces a trihe less of
bran, and more of -four, than the latter.
The flour of the common varieties of
spring wheat has not the extreme and per-
feet whlteness of winter wheat but has
something bordering on yellow hue
when exhibited in the loaf of bread. It
IS this fact Of complexion only, as explain
ed by the miller. that prevents its being
rated as "extra super" But as to every
desirable property for domestic use, where
persons make their own bread, 1t is gain
ing decided preference over winter
| wheat, among our best families 1t makes
a more moist and finer favored bread, &
will hereafter, when the quality is excel
lent, hold the preference to winter wheat
for family use, where both are produced
on the same farm.
Again as to the product.
"L." thinks, on soils where winter
wheat produces 20 bushels, spring wheat
will produce about Is; that is, the yield
generally, may be about one fourth less
than winter wheat. Now, Mr.. Editor,
the fact with US is quite the reverse. A
friend OF mine. the past season, sowed 81
| bushels OF the Italian, on acres of good
bottom land, without manure or extra
pains, and obtained 100 bushels of beauti-
full wheat from it. Not a man in the
county can boast of such crop of win
ter wheat. Other crops of Is to 35 BUSH
els per acre, under common circumstance
es, are frequent. Where winter wheat
produces IL to 20 bushels per acre.
should expect % to 80 bushels of spring
wheat. And where Is bushels of winter
wheat is produced, it would not surprise
US to see 80 to 35 bushels of spring wheat.
l greatly fear, therefore,. the impression
produced by the Suggestions of L, may
mislead and injure the farmer.
am not al all surprised at his sugees-
lions. For | have found general senti-
ment, unfaVorable to the culture of spring
wheat, has obtained among our old and
respectable farmers. They had formerly
taken up the opinion, that it was an un
safe crop, and as such, had generally neg
Iected it. When sowed late in spring,
the filling the kernel takes place about
the time when the dry hot weather of
haylng and harvest occurs; and for want
of rains at this time, the berry would be
likely to shrink To meet this hazard
spring wheat should be sown as early in
the season as possible, that the berry NAV
hll before the ordinary drouth of summer
comes on. 1t should be sown the earliest
moment the frost will allow the ground to
be Ploughed. The better and safer poG-
cy is TO plough in fall, and then harrow
In the wheat in spring, as soon as the frost
is out of the ground sufficiently to allow
the drag to cover the seed properly. II
cnnsidnr tha -hnu0-d L.. y. l