Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1850-07-24

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system Of drilling wheat. Wheat put in
by this method is less likely TO be winter
killed. The roofs Of grain that is sown
broadcast, are often injured by the earth
being blown off from them ; by the drill
system this is prevented-the earth which
forms the ridges between The rows being
blown over the wheat, keeping the roots
covered. His whea: crops have sometimes
been forty bushels per acre-has raised
thirty bushels per acre on sixty acres.
Mr.. Cowles. Of Onondaga county, said,
there was grea: variety Of soil in that
couhty-,hat on which oak and chestnut
constituted the chief timber growth, was
best for wheat { but thirty years ago this
land vas generally thought good-!or'no'h-
ing. When it was first titled. i, was plowed
about four inches deep, and it did not pro-
duce tery well now i, is Plowed from Sc
ven to ten inches deep, and the crops "re
good and the land is growing better. On
this kind Of land, plaster benefits all crops;
but on some other soils plaster has no aP
parep; effect. On the chestnut and oak
lands, the best crops Of whea; are obtained
by sowing about the lst of September. He
had noticed the effect Of different crops Oh
! wheat, A field was soon as lollows-one
third with peas, one third with barley, one
third with oats the next crop was wheat !;
it was best after the peas. next best alter
barley, and poorest after oats. So lar as his
observation had gone, wheat was generally
poorer after oats than after any other crop.
On his land, " hea, was generally best after
a summer failow. As TO varieties, The Old
fashioned flint was best-,he Canada flint
mex, best. He related an experiment.
ncishbor of his took some winter wheat
white vareiy-put i, into tubs, wet IT. and
left il TO freeze-it being in the winter sea-
son. 1t renamed frozen till spring. when
!, was sown: the product was red sprnig
wheat, which had been continued in his
neiahborhood until this day. This expert
ment convinced him that all wheat was OF
one species and that varieties might be orr
,ina,ed by causes unusually affecting the
germ or the plant.
Lieut.. Gov. Patterson had no reason ie
doubt the result Of the experiment Just cilet
i, brought 10 his mind the lons-con'estef
point of the transmulaiion Ol wheat init
. chess. lie had known chess produced unde'
f circumstances which seemed 10 favor thai
hy polhesis. He knew piece Of new land
, Jus, cleared from the forest, at consider
T.. able distance from any other cleared land
sown TO wheat, and on swa.e, IN I'M
( middle Of the piece, there was scarcely
aRs'aipe stsxp s',es BY! shes,; s;,uu-,rr.,r.r :.
e had ever heard of, could be expIaine
e without resorling TO such an unnatura
idea. Ii was sometimes ssid that ciea,
wheat was sown. and it prodoced chess: h
. had often examined whea, that was called
clean. and found chess enough among ii ,c
produce all that was grown among Tho
wheat. 10 wet places. the wheat would
die out. but the chess would grow all The
beiler. and people were astonished at the
quantity.
Mr.. -, (his name we did not learn
made some remarks in regard 10 smut. lIe
had sowed piece Of ground with seed
wheat that was little smut'y, but scarcely
enough to be no,iced-did not apply lime
or nything TO prevent smut, and the crop
was two.lhirds smut. His son sowed
some OF the same seed, prepared by soaking
in brine and lined, which crop had hardly
any smut it. He inquired, whether this
accorded with general experience Several
gentlemen replied !ha, they had never been
troubled with smut when the seed was
treated with lime, alkali or vitr;oI.
In connection with the above, we beg TO
recall to the recollection of our readers the
experiments of Dr.John Woodruff of Mer-
Ger county, N. j.. who raised ffy-seren
bushels of wheat, on one acre, by deep
PIo~iog and the Use of decomposed muck
in compost. DR.. w. is among onr most
spirited farmers, and has succeeded in con-
vincing his neighbors that sub-soI blowing
may be pursued with profit.
Two young men, students at the OsIe-
thorpe (Ga.) University, and candidates
for The ministry, were killed by lightning
while walking together during a thunder
storm on the 26h June. They were fellow I
Students and devoted friends and vere CorpJ (