The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1845-10-30
Prom lhe American farmer.
eAitTT IN WHEAT.


Avon Dale, P. o. Westminster, Camel Co. Nd.
Hos. WV. CARMICHAEL, SIR:-In No.
3 81 The American Farmer. have seen
your method for getting rid Of smut in
wheat. The interest take in every thing
relating 10 agriculture thaying been Car.
mer for upwards Of forty years. will am
sure be sufficient apology for letter from
an entire stranger. In This section Of the
country, formerly part Of frederick county.
The farmers wee much annoyed hy dis
pest, and the millers found great difficulty
To make their -four pass Inspection. The
duty is now made easier 10 both occupa.
lions. Some three or four years since.
Our Yankee friends sent among our mil
lers. what they called smut machine, and
which is now made use Of BY farmers
where smut exists in their seed grain, TO
get rid Of the dusky calored enemy. II
answers the purpose admirably, and the
millers are enabled 10 improve the stand.
ard Of their flour. No mill should be
without one. The cost is rilling. CON-
pared 10 the beneficial results. When first
introduced they cost about $50, I am
told they can be had now a, a lower price.
| presume il can be pm. to work as we'll
BY hnrse as water power. and will occu-
py but small space on barn floor.
| THAT is TO say on our Dutch barn floors. J
In mills they stand perpendicular: no
doubt they can be put TO work horizon
tally to suit the horse power Of threshing
machines, or 10 work on the hopper ol
the wheat fan. They will clean l, . or
hundred bushels per day, according TO cir.
cumsiances; and the labOur Of taking to and
from mill is less than washing and dredg.
ing the grain. | am speaking, however
now Of our section OF the country, where
mills are abundant. think they are moi
quite as much so in yours. have Ere,
qnently tried washing my grain and found
|. i, exceedingly troublesome. There is ont
Of those machines in the mill on my farm
and .hela labor and trouble q yss h Seet
] residing in Westminster for some time
. FIRST brought them from the Eastward abou
, two wears since. lie has been la,terly.
, am informed. on your shore, attending Il
; the introduction among your farmers o
1 some agricultural implement. have n
: doubt he can get his eastern friends 10 alte
!, them so as 10 SUI, the barn-hoor as well
the mill, and strongly recommend iheI
= use. Now sir, though | am aware m
d letter is Internationally long and ,irt
l.. some. | cannot resist the desire 10 gal
II every possible inrormationrespec,ing th
+. de,estable smut. Permit me. then.
a. ask you, and through you, all other ia
,e mers, what is the smut! From its shat
e. can i, be said whether it ever was oil Il
y. whea, genus2 II so. it must have b
,e come deceased in some way and new
il ma,ured. Break a grain and you W
of find il black dust-Have You or any
to your acquaintance ever had cuiosl
Is. enough to try whether il will vegeta'
ce II il will not vegetate. why the ala'
ey about il; If i, does, it is the duty OF eve
TO- farmer TO get rid of it.-and inform
nd neighbors Of the method. But though
have done " hs,ever suggested itselfto
Ihe or was suggested by others, 10 clean
ne whea, from il, yet, it appears TO me
an. this timel tina, it may as we'll be 50
SIS. whea, enveloped in plaster Of Paris Lii
md or Guano. will produce those substanc
as that smut will be produced by tn
as unvegetative (if not legi'ima'e) bias
mi grains. Ifit was wheat, IL has lost
pie. kind. by having become blasted as ;
hat It's life.
MIA, You will please pardon the prol''
pm- of this epistle; my object is 10 solicit
tam formation.
div p. S.-Permit me TO suggest the b
len, Of Salt.petre, in place Of Glauber S
nat. our farmers at planting make use
y be for their corn; it is said 10 change The
de- lor lat any rate) OF the plant. perl
IS of makes it stronger and more fruitful.