New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-12-26


perfume at this moment, when the last crop bar.
vested and the Winters long nights Of leisure per-
NIT ,uch Sarrulousness. How, then, do weshnd IN
regard to the wheat crops Of the past aid the next
few yesrs Certain it is that Heaven seemed cce
to design Americs, that part OF It whereon We live,
a. tie grardsst wheat country 10 the world We
have only to lock 1t the geological formations, o.
what is more practical, at tho absolute results, 10
prove this broad assertion. Take % specimen
the Genesee Valley, where the Imestonsso ssOaada
that, dig down little ard pick up handful Of tie
Garth and put it in water, and it efiervesces like
,cda. TIE prOverbisl reputation Of oar New York
flour il as well determined as any fact in Agricultural
history. It is recognized in Europe even on tas
Continent. The French people are remarkable Tor
exporting much in h ghly finished, concentrated,
rtistic form, aud importing very little; hence they
are sirsuarly ignorant Of the industrial achie'e-
ments or native products Of ether nations. Abort
time ego they were unacquainted with tho suPreme
Quality Of. our wheaton hcur-the Genesee brauc'
kr example-and looked upon what they hAd
home as the best Now they know better, tor one
bright morning at the great grain market Of Paris
"a colossal stone building which, along with a'ss-
toirs or great municipal slaughter houses there
might well be initiated 10 Gotham), sample Oh
Prime Genesee brards was exhibited. The crowd
Of millers who there do congregate were required
to look at it. American -four Iodian c9rn'
" Non, psrbleu MATS " C'est superb! How fine
" How white Better than the best DAntzic The
" best In the world !" Such was the final verdict
of tie French nerr, and hercs the continental! rep
utatOn Of the classic Genesee il equal TO its En-
4 li.h fame. But alas the whea.en -four which
fed all home mouths and oyerlspped tho horn Of
plenty seems menaced with extinction. The facts
connected with this are 80 serious, aud have been
so overloo ked in large political or economical dis.
cussions, that they may well be emphasized. II
the came plague continue to blight the wheat crops
for the next few years that has dssolsted them for
the past few years, in comparatively short time
Wheat will become myth, at least in the NORTH
srA AID Middle portion Of the Union as well as in
Canada.
Within about lustre Ct years there sppeascd 10
Cansda, in the wheat, an insect enormously called
the weevl II s about one Third the sze Of another
little flying imp, the musketo. This miniature
fend strikes into the pulpy grain, and then OUT
comes brood Of eggs, which fall to the esrsn a1a
there lie enscorced for the next summer he'e'
then, is colony planted, ready to storm the is'J-
riptb Of abundance and eat out the food and prids
OF him who takes the vain title Of arbi.er OF earth
aid sea, and Owner Of the crops taas sand or
.wim. The black footiDg.up Of this account l"
that Cene,ee Valley, the home Of the wheat crop.
is DEFINED, according to present Appearances %
lcfe her chief renown in losing all her wheat AID
10 with otter parts Of the country where wneas
abounes, from Cansds 10 Southern PennsylVana.
Beyond that parallel Of latitude We have not hsaf'
Of The DESTROYER of tie farmers wealth ard hopes.
But down 10 The latter point ard west to the center
Of Michigan this 90 called weeVl has penssra'oi'
And, gentle optms.s do not ley the poultice to your
bc,om by ,upposing that this pusonian excre'cenc'
is transient. The Hessiau fly, after be put on his
thre-lesCued boots and plsyed the deuce senefauy'
wa, ready to be gathered 10 his fathers and %
heard Of 10 more. Bot tie improved demonhos
cuts ard comes sgsin-or rather he quarters Tor al
Indefinitely lorg period on the farmer. We my
.tate he damage done to one siDgs Genssee 'a's,.
Where he used 10 gel! sag, within cef'aa CUE
Of aere,, 6 coo bu,hel,, be derived this year 80
bu.hel., all told. Any Ore who can destroy 'aS y,
weeyil would make a gain to him aanusay
sos. co., row lest in this sirgle article Oh We.
OF the fIisttul prospect Of farmers the reader eau
hereby judge. In few years there wan =.
wheat lar ds cultivated, if this insect commune
essioss. Thu. far all sttemPsas ae's'o'"''''