New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-08-26
Need wheat .houid be Picked.


The land being plowed, should be socn ms quickly
A possible; for which purpose ihe Seedwheat should
be- measured up In the sacks or ready 10 DC mehsuieu
up the cornbsrn or gransfy ana tne mean, VI pn
Hns 4, also ready when wanted Wheat should Dc sO"h
thick In Spring because there Is time Tor the pant
70 stool or s that IT, 10 throw out young shoots rom
tbs as in the case OF su,umnslioSn Wheat a'ou
three bushels per imperial acre will suifce Tor seeo
Seed wheat should be- picked that is, subjected 10
preparation la certain kind OF liquor before II Is so"n
In order insur9 II against the attack OF certain us
ease ia the ensuing Summer called smut which renders
the crop comparatively worthless. Some farmers al
feet to laugh at this precauon a. originating in non
seusics faith in an Imaginary SPECIFIC but ne eNStehce
M suu and It's barefu effects upon the w heat crop are
no IMAGINARY inventions and when experiences mas
proved In numberess instances that the application oil
.,sep has the effect of wsrdng of the evils OF smut
the little trouble which picking imposes may surely BE
undertaken rather than the whole crop DO put ID
hOpsrdy INV picking nor should have ,he ensc' OF
preventing the smut At JHinre period 10 q oineIen.
question and II 10 perhaps because tnis
bhsrto been satisfactorily answered. that picking 10
ousbt lightly of by farmers rather than because
spy valid objection be urged against its Ptacuce
Indeed there cannot for the pspsoe TACT STANDS o1Vi
ous 10 conviction, that one field sown with picked
Wheat and managed In the usual way Will escape the
smut while an adjoining one, managed In cAaeuy
similar manner but sown with plain wheat VIII 90 Al
ost destroyed with the disease have seen tnls ioen-
ucsl case tried by two neighborDg farmers the Mess
Fsnton late tenants of Nevay and ksse, In Forsrsnre
IA IL true that Oh some farms Wheat sown ia plsin
state escapes the disease have neero "r Onr Yer
farm and II il also true that picking docs not eR'ray
prevent the OF the disease on other farms
bu, such cases exceptions to the rule when s II
Wheat 10 not picked may be smutted at least no one
can aver beforehand that shall not be- so ana WINE
uncertainty exss n the recurrence OF serious disease
the safer practice to bestow the trouble oil picking
the ex pense being very trihng rather than incur ne
r.k M disssse IL now well fac, that In
oculation will not insure immunity from smallpox ye.
will certainly modify the attack when II occurs sno
20 A. IA with the case of picking Wheat and as long as
rd,tff all
analogy ought Wheat to be picked
Wheat 10 picked In this way For some days, say
Two or three weeks let of the tubs referred 10 In
smother part of the book be placed to receive quanu
~ of chamber I've and when Ammonia ielt To Do dis
engaging itself freely from the ye II 10 ready for use
ts better that the 'rnyam De 50 strong as -
the owes and water added to dilute the liquor thsn tns'
the i've be- used fresh. This tub should oe removed 10
the straw bsrp, also the Wheat to be picked ano
part of the hOor swept clean 10 be ready lot Tue rece
non Of the Wheat let two baskets be- provided capa
Bile of hodipg easily about half bushsl OF Wheat each
having handles raised upright ON their rims four inc
Wheat into the baskets the sacks and dip escn oss
ketu of Wheat into tub of ye tar down as com
netev IN cover The Wheat the upright handles OF the
baskets preventing the hands OF the operator oeing I'M
nersed ia the lye After remaining In tne h9uOI loi
two or three seconds t the basket up 10 GRIP the sur
plus I've again the tub and then place II upon Two
sticks over empty tub 10 drip still more I'LL anotnet
bssketiul Is ready To DO dripPed. Then empty the
dpped basket OF It's Wheat the hoor and IS every
basketball 10 empted. let person spread by riddnng
through barn whearddle. little slaked csustc lime
upon the Whest Thus basketball after basketball OF the
Wheat pic led till IL Ia all empted GU the door, when
the picsled and Tuned heap Is turned over and over
again NIL the whole mass appears uniform The mixing
BY turning is most surely managed IN this way Lei
two men be each provided with barn shovel and lie,
one stand on each side OF the hesp one win MS snove
IN thefght and tho other with his In the oit hand lei
both make their shoves meet In their edges upon the
door under end Of the heap of whest snd eaen Oh
lifting his shoveltah turn over behind him ana 'nu
proceed shoveull after shoveliul 10 the other emo
fha hean Let thRm rain 10 A
opposite direction. and 50 I'LL the hesp OF Wheai II
,brS ann ,Ss lime and yS PIC
Other substances beside chamber I've are used for pick
ling Whest such a. brine Of salt sufficiently strong u
float egg solution OF blue vitysol-sn good enough
dare say but when simple and Efficient and easily 90
tAned an article as lye can be had appears TO NE un
necessary to employ anything else. Ills powerful in
gedient destroying vegetable ie In the course Of lew
bour snd IL 10 perhaps 10 this property that IL 10 De A
erihed ia efficacy protection against the attack o
that vegetable enemy Of tbs Wheat erop-the smut
me Wheat picked with should therefore be used i'm
sd.tely Alter the process and ~ danger may be ~
urehenaed 70 picked Whcst being kept over night IN
eaantity picked should be sown 81 once, and no NOR
thoald BE- picked at one tune than can inmeols,ey .
sown. Toe uso Of quckime seems 70 Dc 10 oiy me y
quickly 90 grains may DO easily separated iroi
one snother la the of sowing but there may som
chemical change srise between t1em In the eiscamsisi
oes which may be serveeaole to The purpose los ~n
both employed. Can Il be INST tne nulo go y, ~
an nonis OF the lye, aud preserves iVt use uN' ~
Cd BY the plsot or seedt
HORRIBLE MuRDER.-A man named fsrrei, wa
up before the Police Court yesterday on charge
having poisoned man named Skidmors. skdmor
bad served twelve months Ia Mexico with the Louisvh
Legion, and on the day be poisoned bad receive
the money Tor bis land warrant Ii Is supposed CORE
ave sGoiimste was administered 10 him with som
uctuss after eating which he survived but eight hour
louisville Courier, 2th.
BRieHr Bors.-says the Indiana State Jour
nsl: We notice hat some drunken losiers at fof
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