Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1833-1861, 1854-09-29
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HARMONY AcApsMY,
GARRARD Co, KEN, JuLy 25, 81.
CHESS IN WHEAT.


FRtESD GooDwIs:--l have said be
fore that farming Was carried on her,
In n very careless way. | see NOR,
evidence of,his every time | 20 abroad
and In no other place such oysrwhelm,
ing proof as In the harvest.feldI.
never saw chess No abundant In any
other place as here. The farms ar,
literally lowered with Il. Not only |,
|, found In every wheat and rye field,
but even in oats and corn fields also.
Il may be found In every pasture. In
dooryards. lanes. and gardens. | am
told that Il is only about an average
crop this year. as nearly as the citizens
can Judge, their attention never having
been no especially called TO II before
IL Il strange that some Of them should
be believers In that very convenient
doctrine. that wheat. rye. DC, turn 10
chess? WeliFsome there were who
had never heard Il disputed, but had
adopted Il rs a settled doctrine. with
out taking any trouble 10 test 1t for
themselves.
hall not pretend 10 argue the
theory In general now, as | have al
ready Goac that pretty fully in articles
published sometime ago. All that |
p opo,e Is. 20 mention few neighbor'
hood items having n general bearing
on the question at issue.
Many persons raise more in their
fields than thcy are willing to admit,
or ealIy believe. They are careless.
and heseb one accustomed to seeing
Il in their wheat. and then, because il
does not specially attract their atten-
ton, lhey corclude they have none.
why" said one, conversing on
this subject, "it mast change, for
don't sow It," "Well," said l. "were
you careful last year. and the year be.
fore, aud in former years. to clean all
the chess out of your seed?" "Noi
particularly so, but il was rs clean.
suppose. rs my neighbors." "Yes,
md yourr shbors raised chess, as
" n as voa eli. That would be q
poor test. Did you everexamine your
seed wheat car efully, TO see il sin
Gle grain was in it," "Never: but. il
there bad been mu-h, | should have
seen IT," THAT" replied |, "would
be poor test also, on which TO found
conclusion, contradicted by every
thing else in nature" do You ever
run it through screen to remove
from il even a single grain that may
have found its way into il?" "Nev-
err" Ibid you ever try to rid your
farm cf it, so that il might not be seed
ed in that way. by the early pastur-
aye OF those felus containing most ol
il, or 10y cutting it down before 1t was
ripe enough TO grow, or by pulling il
up, whenever and VIII, rever you found
il. and burning it?" mo; none oI
thesc thin rs" "How. then, can you
argue that it changes, when you carry
on your farming operations in thi,
lcose style?" "Whv. because more
grows with my wheat than with my
o.her grain" "Well, do you not
know, that the time for sowing and
growing and maturing is moe nearly
the same for wheat and chess than 70,
most other plants? This, together
with the fact that they are more likely
10 be sown with each other, will very
readily account for the phenomenon
A. we'll might We argue. that. becaus'
cert,in weeds grow on >iubble, an
c, rlain o,hef wceps grow on corn fal
low, here lore, they are changelinss
Besidss. many DO net observe thss'