Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1833-1861, 1854-09-29

oeo" duoeeu W sustain wholly un-
founded theory.
In this State not only do they raise
chess with their wheat, but rye and
cocale also. | crossed "a field few
days ago. called n wheat field. The
grain was in shock. have little
doubt. that the chess. rye and cookie,
together, were equal in quantity to the
wheat. or perhaps greater. Ii was y
complete mixture. Now. what eyi.
dence was there Of wheat changing to
chess that was aot equally strong to
prove its change 10 rye and cookie?
About as much effort had been made
TO destroy the one as the other, and
very little for either.
In this whole ncighborhood have
heard OF but tNp who firmly rejected
the theory OF change. aud. strange as
u may seem 10 some, they are the on.
ly ones whose fields are entirely clear
OF IL. II is the natural consequent
OF "faith aud works." aud n conse.
queuce that will assuredly follow
The Apostle assures US in religion, so
here. "faith without works Il dead
bat let them "show their faith by their
works." and they will certainly sue
ceed. II several neighbors or neigh.
90 'hoo''r soild unite. no doubt the
labor would be less to each.
J.B.
p. s. Sept. i6th. '54.-You will
sec that several weeks ,iaye passed
since the above article was prepared.
in response 10 Jour iavitation to dis
cuss the quesi'oa. When I had about
finished The article, heard report
which wa circulated. that the princi.
pal experiment on which | had before
relied had failed. Wishing to be able
TO speak understandingly. | DELAYED
sending u until | could make inquiries.
Since then l have not been able TO
send un.,l now.
Ny father informed me that nothing
had occurred on his farm 10 shake his
faith In the slightest degree. lie did
not SOW any wheat himself. but large
iold was sowed by another. This
was the third successive crop on this
field by the same man, and IL contain.
ed very small amount Of chess
Tho man who sowed Il. and who has
sowed Il for three years. says, that
there was some chess In the seed, and
a very little on the ground. But then
the worst OF IL, after all is said, had
not half AZ much chess. as sced'wheat
that have heard pronounced perfect.
ly clean. and yet all the crcumst ances
were supposed 10 be favorable TO
change.
About half the Geld was an almost
uttef failure. so nearly that Il was not
cut for the wheat at all. II had been
lowed with imoshy last fall. which
rarely p odvces seed the first year;
but thishadgsown 80 we'll. that enough
was cdt TO produce one and n half
bushels Of clean seed. All the wheat
aud chers and heads and trash. that
the r"cc saiy slow turning would not
blow odt were sifled out. and did not
Pll amount 70 but little over a peck
much less than half a bushel. Most OF
this was wheat, large proprotion Of
the remainder heads. caps. and trash
OF various kinds, so that very little
space was left for chess. When we
recollect that this was the whole pro-
dvct Of two or three acres sown with
this young grass. we can Judge how
few seeds, with all the advantages for
spreading which this possessed would
have produced IL. OF the missing
wheat, not re shoot in 1919 need have
chaD ed % have producedit ALL Why
would one stool in l99 becol..e chess,
aud the rest die from the same injury?
II is TO be remembered shat this was
the 81 successive crop soSn on the
same grodnd. Iii a well known fact,
that when there is any chess at all. il
will increase greatly each year. on
ground sowed successfully, which
shows its hardness and capacity for
increase; but, most Of all. II is TO be
kept in mird, thal some seed was sown
there. Now WREN all these allow an
ces are made, whose propriety no one
can dispute, il III, re is any room for
change, can't see what became ofiis
fruits. Tie remainder OF the field had
but an occasional stalk, few aud far
between. and seldom more than one or
two stalks in rlace. AS much had
been so@a here but tie wheat had
choked it. and kept it down. The diff
ference between the chess in the good
wheat. that most men would have pro-
nouncsd perfectly clean. and that
where the wheat failed, was the differ
ence between stool Of one or two
heads. concealed by the wheat, and
occurring three or four times TO an
acre, and the same number OF stools.
with twelve or twenty heads each,
standing out in the open ground
The only place in the good wheat that
has much che.s was where thresh-
ing. machine had stood. BIO tight from
neighbor's who raised The article
There il stood 4 'ck. hayia. doubtless
grown f.'om the sssd III scattered.
Now what do all these ia,ts. with
,,hrrs NJ fJlly preseasa heretofore.
prove? Msni9estly. Ihat chess comes
from seed crd oaly from sssd. Else