The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1841-12-14

ed m abundant harvest, aud by continuing to
mike experiments, md collect the experience
OF others, we may yet he able TO raise good
wheat in Vermont, year in and year ont.
geological survey will doubtless be very great
aid, ms it has been IN England and other
countries, Ivy enabling the farmer TO select the
best soils and prepare in the best manner for
raising this invaluable crop. ). +. f.
at is well known that our lands, where the
soil is at all suitable, will produce good crops
of wheat when first cleared from their native
growth OF wood; but after having been titled for
some yearsthey generally yield wheat with diff
ficulty and it is often found impossible 10 raise
il by any Of the modes commonly adopted for
wheat culture. In MOS, parts of Massachusetts,
and in some parts Of New Hampshire and Yer.
mont, the farmers scarcely ever attempt TO raise
wheat, and still more rarely succeed when they
do attempt it. Yet we believe, wheat was n
common and profitable crop in those places in
the enrly period Of their settlement In process Of
time, however, the land became exhausted Of
its wheat bearing qualities, and our farmers
were forced nearly to forget Its cultivation
The same variation and appearan ces have been
observed also in Europe. Wheat countries, by
continued cultivation, have become almost inca
pable ofyielding wheat, The cause md RENE
dy OF partial barrenness, this falling off, with
gard To particular plants, was alike involve in
obscurity, ill modern chemistry threw light or
the subject II has been found that the texture
Of every soil is defective, unless there is mix
ture Of three kinds of earth, viz, clay, sand and
lime, and that lime in some of it's combinations
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kernel. In some soils, fertile in other respects,
! lime may either have no existence, found in
very minute portions, aud be soon eXhnustcd.-
II lime be n necessary constituent OF wheat, and
is not in the soil, when we attempt to raise
wheat, it must he supplied Ivy art, or wheat will
not grow. Or If native lime exists in the soil in
small quantities., the land may bear wheat until
the land is exhausted, and then become inrapa.
BILE Of producing that plant, till fresh supply
of lime, mari, puverIzed bones, some other
caIcarious substance is add ed. Nlr.Young says,
1T cannot he denied, that since the plentiful use
orlime has been adopted, land in Europe will
nroduce wheat, which otherwise were inrapa.
BILE of bearing it,and he quoted several instances
in proof of this operation. DIR. Anderson like.
wise gives an account of u field, (which had n top
dressing OF lime for the purpose Of raising
wheat, but the lime by accident, was not applied
to small patch Of the field, and in that psri
OF the field there was no crop, while every
part of the field to which The lime was APP.
piled produced wheat luxuran,ly. 1t would
he easy to produce many more instances TO
show that lime, in Great Britain, is considered
not only useful but indispensable for tie pro-
ductou of wheat. a British farmer we believe,
rarely undertakes to raise wheat toithout the use
of lime, mud an American farmer as rarely un.
derakcs TO raise It with tho use Of that sub.
stance for manure.
I II the foregoing premises are correett would
not seem impossible, and indeed scarcely i'm
probable, that 10y the Judicious use OF lime, or
other calcnrious substances, wheat may he as
well raised in New England, as in HE Western
States The subject is certainly Of very great
importance and deserves repeated eXperime nts."
Fatal Duels. The New Orleans Bee OF Nov
10, says,-"We regret 10 record two more vie.
tins Mt the shrine OF the Unsuitable Moloch OF
duelling. Yesterday encounters took place be-
tween four gentlemen Of this city--all of them
highly respectable and honorable. In both in.
stances the result fatal. The weapons
used, we understand, were small swords. Two
of the combaants we'll known members of
the mercantile community. Can neither rea
son nor law arrest these miscaled affairs OF
honot? "