The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1858-10-28
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"ouater" Whoat not O New Varie
tV. but the Same as the Bearded
Moditorrouoan--" Red Chan Med
iterranoan"
PENN Tp, Oct. goth, 1858
FRIEND BoARDMAN:.- see by refer
onco to our Premium List that our
friend, VIM. Mooney, was awarded q
premium on Quaker Wheat"
This was right. The man that takes
the trouble and incurs the expense Of
sending to distance for new varieties
Of seed, should be encouraged But
still judging from a few hurried words
Of conversation ] had with that enter
prising gentleman at our County Fair,
I am inclined to believe he is a little
mistaken about the "Quakor Wheat. ~
It is nothing more nor less than the
common bearded Mediterranean. To
establish this assertion I viii give the
readers Of the NEWS my experience in
the matter
was induced two years ago, by see
ing a communication from Gen. G. d.
HENDuoKs, Of Preble county, publish
edin the Annual Report Of the State
Board Of Agriculture for 1852 page
222, to open a correspondence with him
in relation to Quaker Wheat" the re-
suit Of which was the receipt Of some
six bushels Of the pure article, which
was sent to me from Preble county.
I sowed it by the side Of my Modi-
terranean Wheat, and all who saw it
when ripe, and all who helped harvest
it, pronounced il the genuine Mediterra-
mean. But all agreed that the "Qua-
kor" was a little better grown and a
better grain. This we attributed to a
change Of seed from one soil to another,
which L believe is always an advan-
tage.
As further proof that the Quaker"
and the Mediterranean Wheat are one
and the same thing, [ will give an ex-
tract from q private letter to me from
ENooH TAYLOR, of Preble CO., dated
Aug, 25th, 1856. lie says:
"The Quaker Wheat that G D. Hen
bricks says so much about, I think
is no more than the Bearded Mediterra-
mean. am an old farmer, have follow
ed nothing but farming for forty-two
years, and I tgiU say that is the gen
eral opinion of US farmers. I have
never been able Ito find the divid.
ing ridge, when the stake has been
pulled up and thrown away, where the
Quaker Wheat and Bearded Mediter-
ranean have been sown in the same
field.
"The Quaker Wheat has yielded, RI
pened, grown in height and every other
way, like the Mediterranean. Mr..
Hendricks said nothing but the truth
about the Quaker Wheat Gin his COM
munication to the State Board) but he
said nothing about the Mediterranean"
I have full confidence in what Mr..
Taylor says, as his letter bears evidence
that he is an experienced farmer, and
of course qualified to judge in the mat
ter. He was at that time President of
the Preble County Agricultural Society,
and in that capacity addressed him on
the subject, and the letter from which I
have given an extract is his reply.
1 have some two hundred bushels
of the Wheat on hand now. and
have over twenty-five of it sown this
year, so if there are any who wish to
try it for themselves, they can be ac-
While on the subject Of Wheat, I
will add a few words about a new vario-
ty that is attracting great attention in
Chester CO., Pa. It is called the "Red
Chaf Mediterranean" 1t was noticed
first among the common Mediterranean,
and attracted attention by being taller,
standing up better, and the heads were
noticed to be generally well filled. A
few heads we're picked out and sown,
until it has become quite common there, II
and is very much in favor with many
farmers.
I sent for two bushels Of it this fall,
and it is now growing by the side Of !
some white Wheat, and there is no
need Of stakes to mark tho division,-it /
1an be seen as far as the feld can be
5een The new wheat looks as though (
It might have been sowu a month earli-
9r, though they we're both sown at the q
same time. Yours, &C.,
UNCLE BEN. IA