Delaware weekly Republican. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1841-188?, 1857-10-01


CLEAN YOUR WHEAT OF CHEss.-As this is
the season for sowing OF this crop, we urge
upon all cultivators TO SOW none but clean
wheat. The soil should have the burden Of
but ono crop at time. Clean wheat commands
flour. 49,
John johnson, one Of the largest Wheat
growers IN tho state, cieanses Dswheat by the
following method. He was for time n believ-
er in the theory that wheat turns to chess. and
in endeavoriug to establish this position he
convinced himself that chess seed alone nro
ducc chess. PtN
"After the wheat has been run through the
tanning-mill in the ordinary way, take the mid
dies out OF the mill, leaving the screen in; take
on inc ROD mat shakes the riddles and screen !;
pour the wheat slowly into the hopper with n
basket or halfbushel turn the mill little ouick-
er than for ordinary cleaning, and every grain
oil chess VIII be blown out, unless where three
seeds stick together, which Is sometimes the
case with the top seeds. Two mon will clean
from ten TO fifteen bushels per hour. If the
wheat is light, weighing from fifty to lifty.dye
pounds per Dushel, considerable wheat will be
blown away with the chess; but where good
Genessec wheat is raised, as in this section,
welghlng from sixty to siXty-fourpounds to the
Oushel, little or no wheat will be blown ONT
In some cases it is better to raise the hind end
OF the ianning-mill about two inches from inc
lioori more wind can be given, and net blow
away the wheat"
This method has the advantage of being sim
rple and easily applied. Every farmer who
raises wheat 10 any extent has a fanning-miII
ana can cleah his own wheat, and know that
ne sowS pure article. The blowing ont of
inc small imperfect grains of wheat is an adj
vantage for seed-wheat. The more perfect
the seed the better will be the crop, as a rule.
" Y. Times.
CAVES The old fashioned way of BURNING
vegetables in holes, for winter use still prevails
to great extent in some parts of tho country,
IL appears strange that mode adopted by the
nlsl sSttleTs III cases of necessity, should be
continued by old farmers to the present day.-
speak Of those who have no cellars for It il
presumed that every farmer who has got a eel
lar under his house, will keep his vegetables
IN 1t. The next best thing to d cellar is a caye.
II should be built in in the side of the hill or
genlle slope, although almost any kind of sur
lace VIII DO. 1t may be built of almost any
dimensions, but should be large enough 10
contain all the vegetables that a farmer NAV
want TO Nse and sell through the winter. II |
may be built of round logs and thick planks.-
Dlg out the earth to the depth of three or Iour |
leet, and OF the length and breadth required |
LOT the cave, making due allowance for thick |
ness OF TAG walls, precisely in the same manner |
Us ulggihg cellar. Then cut your logs, which |
required length, and build them up to the TOP |
OF the ground, similar to log house. |
Then build up the gables, inserting beams that |
run from end to end of the cave for the sum |
port ofthe roof. The gables, and the end of |
he cave at the lower side OF the HILL where ii |
is exposed to the air, mnst be double, the out
side and inside logs being q reasonable dis
lance spart, and the vacancy filled with earth.
The cave must be built in such q manner, that
ono end Will be on top OF the hill and TIE other
below, or so that the apex Ofthe roof will be
at right angles with the face of the hill. The
door may be in either end, and must be made
to tit the door way completely. The roof
should be maize Of thick planks with the ends
Joining on top OF the cave and extending to the
which will be the caves. A small
wooden iluc should be fixed in the top of the
roof, at the end opposite the door, for yentila-
ton, and furnished with a stopped, or lid. so
that it may be closed in extremely cold wealth
or. The roof must then be covered with
good depth Of earth, floor laid of boards or
planks, and the cave divided into bins for the
storage OF the different vegetables.
Now, vegetables intended for seed, or such
rs are to remain undisturbed throughout the
winter, will keep better buried in holes, than
either in cave or cellar, particularly potatoes,
For it is an established fact, that patatoes
which have been buried in holes of reasona-
BILE size, are ilrmer in the spring, and will be
fS ,'PN - 3D., nan sum US nHVc Deen
stored in the cellars. Hundreds of bushels Of
potatoes are frozen every winter by opening
loles and neglecting to close the aperture Sc
surely. And people who barry potatoes in
loles for winter use, must do without this veg
stable entirely in very cold weather, as they
would all be liable to freeze, il the hole were
opened at such time. have known more
potatoes destroyed by frost in one season, for
me man, than would pay for building good
ave on the principle described.
The tenth animal exhibition of the Maryland
institute opened in Baltimore on Tuesday
xuith aff |