Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1857-11-07
WHEAT CROPS IN VERMONT.
[From the New England Farmer.


MIR. BRowN Il thoug 1t it might be matter
Of interest to the numerous readers of the New
England Farmer, to learn something of wheat
raising in this section of Vermont. In this busy
age OF the world when most of the young men,
and many Of the more advanced in life are eav-
ing their native New England hills for homes in
the far West. the advantages of New England
farming and the native richness of New England
lands more particularly in Maine and Vermont,
are lost sight Of.
Statistics aye neither compared or examined !;
and the great fact that the hundred thousand
farmers in New England have happy and intel
ligent homes, adorned with well educated sons
and daughters, surrounded by all the comforts
and many of the luxuries of life, is entirely over
looked aud as though nothing either in soil, eli
mate or a market favored New England, and as
though each and all peculiarly favored The great
West, the tide Of emigration bears its thousands
weekly to Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Kansas,
from homes sacred to all the charms Of education
and early life from lands susceptible of the
highest state of cultivation from hungry mar
kets offering the highest prices for agricultural
productions, and fro the high moral and relig-
ous sentiment OF New England society.
But to the more direct object of this commu-
nicatlon. My neighbor, John L. Lowering, Esq,
SouitAlihc ia Stdl loolt vi tnc ldtc
S. w. Cole, one quart of the variety of wheat
known as the "Kloss," Banner" or more gem
orally as the "White Blue Stem" This wheat
was from bushe furnished the late editor of
the Neto England Farmer, by the Hon. Rufus
Mclntre, OF sonfed. Maine, the straw of
which Is represented in Vol. H., No. %, of the
Farmer as growing 10 the height of four or five
feet.
Mr. Lowering sowed his quart of wheat in the
autumn of 852, and in the autumn of S53 pick
ed The heads by hand, that he might keep his
seed free from chess, cookie, and other foul seeds
In subsequent harvestings great carefulness was
observed 10 keep out these foul seeds, and with
perfect success. The wheat seemed admirably
adapted to our soil and climate, enduring the
winter well and Welding bounifullv. Last au-
tumn, as early as the fourth day of August, hav-
ing properly prepared his land, Mr. Lowering
sowed five and one-laf acres to this "White
Blue Stem No portion of the field winter
killed, and previous to harvesting, the straw
measured from five to six feet Three weeks
since, the wheat was threshed and measured, and
ttoo hundred and trelve bushels was the result.
As there was no cleaning, and as much OF the
straw was six feet in length, large number Of
the heads fell from the fingers of the cradle, and
the amount thus left upon the ground could not
have fallen short of eight bushels; giving US the
entire yield of the field two hundred and twen-
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The measured bushel of this wheat weighs
sixty-three pounds. Two bushels ground at our
mill at Qneechy Village, made but few ounces
less than ninety-nine pounds Of the best flour
Four bushels of this wheat will make barrel of
-four.
| his is the third crop taken from this piece of
land since manuring. That the real value of
the soil of Vermont is little understood by per-