Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1849-08-10
WHEAT-TIIE VARIETIES-ADAPT
TION OF WESTERN CULTURE

1IoN Of w Ed TERN CULTURE.
The report of the extensive injury to thu
wheat crop of the West, the present season, b,
rust and weeyi, suggest an important enquiry
What are The best rariefieS 10 sou in hiS region
And the present is the very time in which tC
push this inquiry, and get answers that will BE-
OF value in solving it.
We see, for example, by statement in the
Bro0krclIe American, that in the Whitewater
Valley, where the damage has been very great
the 'red chaff bearded" and 'blue STEM varieties
have suffered most. while the Mediterranean
and alabama" varieties have received least in
jury; so far as rust is concerned indeed both
these varieties are said to have s'almost escaped
A statement similar TO this. in reference to the
Alabama" wheat, met our eye some DAYS since
in Hillsborougu (Highland county, % paper:
md we remembered TO have seer a statement
last week in an Illinois paper that the "Mediter-
ranean wheat was this year making the best
yield OF any in the part of that State referred to-
These are few and scattering facts, but if there
IS anything in them, they can, in a very short
ume be multiplied so as TO show it. We do not
suppose that any variety of wheat can escape the
lepredailons of the weevil, in seasons when that
destructive insect seiZes upon the crops. Rust
however, is a different matter. depending as is
generally supposed, for its full deveopement, on
aeavy rams and hot sunshines and their sudden
alterations. Now it is not at all unlikely that
varieties oil wheat exist which will, much better
than others, Withstand those quick and extreme
changes of weather-from dry to wet and from
cool to hot-~as we'll as the Steansing atmosphere
produced by rapid SUGGESTIONS of sunshine and
shower. Audit seems perfectly accordant with
geographical and climatic facts, to suppose that
the Mediterranean" and ''Alabama'' wheats are
these very varieties.
Any farmer in the West. who has a wheat
field, may be able to throw light upon this subject
The country millers also have superior opportu-
mites OF making observations as to the general
freedom from rust III untavorable seasons. of diff
terent varieties of wheat. The country news
papers can also do great deal towards collect
ing and disseminating correct intelligence upon
the subject. For ourselves, we shall be pleased
to hear from any one who is better informed than
we are in relation to this matter.
In this connection, t may not be amiss to say.
that the Alabama wheat is becoming quite a
avorte in this immediate vicinity: not on ac-
count of any known or supposed exemption
from rust which pertains to it, but because. while
it yields as well as any other wheat grown here
abouts, it rpens full ten TO fifteen DAYS earlier
than most other varieties.
exemption from rust or not may in many seasons
be the very thing to preserve it from that vast
ing disease.--Cln. Gazette.
ADULTERATIoN OF DRUGs-"The New York
Journal of Medicine" for July, contains an in
teresting Report on Adulerated Drugs" by the
Special Examiner at the Custom House, DIR.
Bailey, of Ohio. The facts developed exhibit at
the same time the reckless depravity of the for
eign manufacturers of these deleterious COM
pounds, and the terrible hazard of health and life
to which their use has hitherto subjected mil
lions in this country.
Since the passage Of the law of Congress on
this subject, DIR. Bailey, the Examiner, has con-
demned and thrown into the harbor rs spurious
over 10000 pounds rhHbarb, 5000 pounds of
opium, $4,000 pounds of Peruvian bark. with
jalap, iodine, SIENNA, Croton oil, gamboge, vaeri-
an, lnyrrh and sarsaparilIa in similar proportions
making grand total of 10000 pounds of vari-
Gus loathsome preparations, from which the sto-
machs of our Citizt ms are luckily saved.
A large chemical establishment, with heavy
capital, has for many years existed at Brussels.
the sole business OF which is the manufacture of
spurious drugs, and until the late law went into
operation an agent has constantly resided in this
country to dispose of them. The murderous art
has been carried to such perfection that many
articles hitherto sold as genuine, were found, on
applying the proper test to contain 90 per cent
OF other substances. This game is blocked for
the present, by the vigilance of the Examiner
No medicinal chemical preparations of any i'm
portance have been presented for entry at the
port OF New York since the law took effect. But
great frauds are perpetrated in those by our own
people after they leave the hands of the manu-
acturer, particularly in the sulphates of qunine
and morphine. DIR. Bailey remarks Il regret
to say that, ii am correctly informed, one if not
more, of the persons formerly connected with
the Brussels firm, are now in this country en-
gagged, to some extent, in the same iniuuitous
business. imagine, however, from certain pro-
cecdings which have been Instituted. that their
career among us will not be of long duration
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SEcEssIoN.-There was public secession
from the German Roman Catholic Church, on
Sunday evening last, of between two and three
hundred, and new organization formed, demo-
minated the Primitive Church. under the Pasto-
raj care of the Rev. Mr. Giustiana The cere-
monies took place at the Pearl ST. Church--late
DR.. Louisiana are represented by those pre-
sent to have been highly interesting. Mr.. Gus-
tiana has been laborng here for some time past
calling his flock the Free Catholic Church .
and has had much success in converting large
numbers to his views. We are not advised of
the points Of difference, except that the new or
eanization adopt the Bible as book of general
instruction among its people-n opposition to
its exclusion by the old Church.-B4f. Com
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