Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1859-10-07
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On our late visit 20 the farm Of Nc. John John
ston, near Gsreva. Kew York, be informed us thai
some years ago he WAS be{eser in aud earnest
advocate Of the tbesry that WHEAT you'd turn t.
ehess Ia s5me o. the early Foumes Of the Gene
see Farmer be cited several fses that had come nm
der his observation, and whish appeared to prove
THAI in spite Of blanisls and vegetable physiolo
gists, wheat sroud turn to chess. This idea was
eombated by several correspondents CT the Former,
and, as Mr. J. confessed TO u.s. he had 10 acknOWl-
edge TO himself that he worsted in this paper
war" Fully persuaded tha. lie had the best side
Of the argument, and blinking that his opponents
he'd the advantage simply because better skilled in
the use Of the pep, he resolved to prove beyono all
controversy, By ocular and practical demonEtra-
tion, that wheat would turn 20 chess.
BE took three bushels OF wheat 1--WE believe this
was the quantity but j, Is immaterial) and looked
Il ell over gram by grain, picking out all the chess
When he had finished, he vas satisfied that there
was nat grain Of chess in tbe whole three bushels
Now then, thought he, l shall have them; if get
chess from this wheat it won't DO for them to tell
me that / soEed chess with the wheat; and he had
no doubt that, as usual he should have ''lots Of
chess" The wheat was sowD, and the result was
that, while there an abundance Of chess in the
wheat cleaned in the ordinary way, there NOT a
sisgle Of chess on The land sogn ruth the clear
ssksdt. This experiment. which Mr.. J. made in or
der 10 convince the theorists that wheat would turn
10 chess, had the effect Of convincing him tina. he
wheat must be Rscribed TO sowing chess with the
seed wheat.
Oace satisfied that wheat would rot turn TO chess,
Dir. J. resolved 10 SOW more Of II; and ne nit
upon plan Of cleaning seed wheat which took out
every grain Of chess. Tie method is simply ths:
After the wheat has been cleaned in the ordinary
way, by running it through a tanning mill, take the
riddles out OF lhe tanning mil leaving the screen
IN; take off the lod thar shakes the riddles and
screen; pour the whesi slowly into the hopper with
basket or hslf bushe torn the mill little quick
er than for ordinary cleaning, and every grain oil
chess will be blown cut, unless where three seeds
stick together which is sometimes the with the
fop seeds Two men will clean from ten TO fifteen
bushels per hour II the wheat is light, say weigh
ing from fifty TO IF yhEe pOClds per bushel, consd-
cradle wheat wilt be blown away with the chess,
but where good Genessee wheat l. raised, ss in this
section weighing from sixty to sixty-four pounds
per bushel little wheat will be blown out. Ii
some cases il viii be better TO raise the hind end o.
the tanning mill about two inches from the floor
more wind can be given and not blow away th'
wheat
Since Mr.. Johnston adopted this method Of clean.
ing his seed wheat, he has not raised ''Wne-glasi
full Of chessin more thsn twenty years.
We may remark that the same practice is very
generally adopted 10 England not only in cleaning
seed wheat, but il cleaning all their grain for mar
kst, more especially barley.
There is n nigh duty On the process Of converting
barley into malt abous - ceuts per bushell; aDt
the masters naturally do ret wish to pay duty OF
barley CT an iaterioT quality, or on light grain
that will not gcgIni8ate or consequently make malt
On this acccuI, farmers particularly careful Il
clean their barley before sending g 10 market. L
Is fret through the tanning mill to separate the
chat from ia then through machine 20 break Of
Ihe ''pales or bsaIls: again through a fan
ming mill with iiser Get ot Iidd es aud screen. Ar
ter his the riddles iaken ard the harley is
run throngh as IA the process described Many
farmers hive p machine purpose for this work,
and consider ia ispcns ,tle. Il is called "Heav-
ing Machine. a good sample ci Laglsh barrie!
when cleaned in has way will weigh So pounds p T
bpshel. % Mr.. LawSs farm. at R3thamsted, we
have known his experimental barley to weigh 5S
pounds per bushe'. Tale great weight per bush, !
however mast net be attributed &c she process Of
cleaning alone. Itis more probably due to eli mate
iB8smUch as the wheat 10 mstec how well it is
cleaned, is rot so heavy as Genessee wheat.
MIR. Johnston thinks every agricultural paper in
the country should give this process Of cleaning
wheat ana urge their readers to adopt it. If airy
whest grower VII Cuce try il, he will never again
SOW wheat Withou. running il through flaming
mill in ibe way described -GeResses Farmer.