Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1851-03-05

| drtS, ana 10 learn something In II. Reat
agricultural articlea-try some experiment
talk about seeds, soils, breeds of cattle
times of sowing and reaping, Agricultural
Fairs, Societies, &c.-and above all, think
think THINK! CO-LABORER.
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lErWe extract from the last Patent
Office Report, a few answers to circulars
requesting information as to varieties
difference in weight and time of ripening
the enemies and diseases-soils, and
manures best adapted to-
Wheat.
J.J. Thomas, of Macedon, Wayne Co,
N Y. writes as fol iows: = The best va.
riety for this region is the Sou!es wheat.
The average yield this year has been Is
bushels per acre. The Mediterranean is
peculiarly adapted 10 wet lands, and but
little liable 10 attacks Of the Ilessian fly /;
bu, the -four is usually regarded as Of an
inferior quality this variety has yielded
abou, IL bushels per acre. The Soules
wheat requires dry soil a: hence the Med
,erranean will flourish where the Soules
is not adapted 10 the soil. The White
Flint is but lille cultivated; has yielded
only about IL bushels per acre"
Myron Adams, Of East Bloomfield, On
rario Co, N. Y. says: " Wheat is our
principal crop. the kinds mostly cult
waited are While Fin, and Soues. The
Soules whea, is variety lately introduced,
and is every year becoming more and
more popular. II requires earlier sowing
and more seed than the Flint, as it does
not iIller or spread from The root like the
last named variety ii is not as hardy, but
on good land, under good cultivation, and
with favorable seasons, il will produce more
than any other kind cultivated in this re-
gion. The great objection TO it is its LA.
bility 10 waste by shelling in harvesting.
II should be cut before il is fully ripe.
The W hile Flint is variety long known
and cultivated in western New York. |,
is very hardy, with small, wiry straw,
and short head. usually well filed. II
produces well under almost any treatment,
Wi. bear much exposure 10 bad weather,
and may be kept long in The field after
harvest without shell!ng; yields well ac-
cording TO the amount of straw. The
berry is whtcr, and makes whier -four
and more 10 the bushel, than any o'her
kind with which | am acquainted. Our
wheat weighs from 50 to 63 lbs. to the
bushel, and on the best wheat lands, in
favorable seasons, the yield is from 80 10
40 bushels per acre. Much is grown,
however, on poor lands under miserable
culture, where from 6 TO Is bushels is
called fair crop. The amount Of whea.
per acre is increasing under improved
culture and better implements constantly
introduced among US, and also through the
stimulus which Agricultural Societies af-
ford"
"In Oswego county," S. Severance
write; " wheat culture is nearl y aban-
doned, although when the county was new
considerable was grown. Weevlls and
heavy SHOWS in winter are very destructive
10 this crop. Seven-eighlhs Of the -four
consumed in this county is from Western
" heat" If our correspondent had said.
that the peculiar earthly salts demanded by
nature to form good crops Of Ibis grain
had become mea surably exhausted in the
soil Of that county, he would have hit the
nail On the head. Seven,y-tive years ago,
Albany county produced an average OF 25
bushels per acre-now The average is only
u bushels. Columbia county has fallen
off from 20 10 bushels, ,and other counties
in like ratio.
ITO prevent rust and weeyi," Joseph
IL vi W., Az
says, early sowing is indispensable.
Lime, ashes, and gypsum are the fertilizers
mos, relied upon for wheat in this sec'ion.'
Joseph NJ Nesbit.o of Union Co. Pa, writes
as follows: previous to 1920, the Red
Chaf was extensively cultivated, and es-
teemed one Of our bes, varieties. About
that time new variety called the Blue.
Stem was introduced, which on trial was
found superior TO the above, and we have
nov cultivated il almost exclusively for
near twenty years. We have in The mean
time tried several other kinds OF both
White and Red wheat, to test their charac-
ter; but have uniformly found them de.
fcient in some important property, and
have abandoned them as inferior to the
Blue Stem. In ls45, we harvested from
33a acres, an average Of 36a bushels per
acre. Several acres could have been Sc
lecied, the yield Of which would have ex.
ceeded 40 bushels 10 the acre. We con-
u, or b,sbel. fair oyer.ca Cor tho