Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1860-11-28
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WHEAT AND CHEss-oYCE MORE
Five Hundred Dollars Reward.
From the American Agriculturist.l

years. to give editors of agricultural jour|
mails fits" for you are the most arrogant
chaps, we farmers have anything to do
with. Just look how you treat us on the
old chess question. "You are tired of
it," then to settle it, you launch off into
learned names of some authorities, no
farmer knows Of and treat them to dish
Of BrOmuS SeealiHa, and insinuations of the
silly notions OF " common people," intima-
ting that farmers don't know enough to
last them up short hill. You call for
specimens, when they affirm their expe.
rience Of having seen the fact of Chess
and Wheat growing together, as if they
we're either liars, or were incapable of
judging what we see. Now I've lived some
sixty-three years, and once in that time
have seen head OF wheat and a spran.
gle as we call III of chess growing on one
stalk, in the then Territory of NJ chigan,
and showed it to many of my neighbors
men and women, we'll able to judge Of
what they saw, Common as they might be-
also in that same Territory, saw chess
growing on more than q dozen stalks of
Jdr, and having some seven or eight
hands hoeing corn on my land at the time
! called them to witness the fact. Some
of these men are now living, good men
and true, and reminded me of it two
years agD, when was there on visit
Again, fifteen years ago, when first set
tied here, brother, in law of mine broke
up ten acres Of new land, part prairie, part
barrens; on one side, about six rods from
the edge Of said lot, ran an old road
which didn't get broken up much with
the rest being hard He sowed the
plumpest, cleanest wheat | ever saw, on
said lot. This result was an abundant
crop of beautiful wheat, excepting the
said strip OF road, of some eight feet wide
and forty rods long-which was chrss
stout enough to bear up cradle. Now
Sir, you may call chess by any name you
choose, but it won't explain how that
strip of chess came where clean wheat was
sown the previous season. There was no
chess in the wheat on either side of the
said road. This fact was witnessed by
some of the best farmers in the town, and
many Of them are here now, and often
speak OF it. don't say wheat turns TO,
or is transmitted to chess, for think can
explain it upon the principles of natural
science; but that was mt the object Of the
present article. 1t was to get up a little
modesty in agricultural papers, and pre-
vent their squirtations Of so much Learned;
dyestuff into the eyes Of old eye witnesses
OF what said editors deem d delusion.-
What in the name of common sense, can
BromuS SecaIina have to do with the fact ot
the appearance Of chess where wheat i,
though you, because you are an editor, had
any better senses than observing farmers
Now sir, believe in book farming anC
read all can get hold of on the subject
have taken another agricultural paper anG
yours in 80, and my son takes yours now
and another paper; but / don't be.
iieve you all together can see stalk Of
chess growing in company on the same
stem more sure than ] or any other old
or young farmer, though We may be com.
mon folks. JoHN r. RoBINsoN
Kane Co.. III.
RsNARKs.--Mr. Robinson must feel het
ter now, after having spoken his mind
His bile has rather overAoyed and rar
down into his ink little, but we are Toe
benevolent to Withhold letter, the inser
ton oiwhich will alleviate an aching o
thirty years standing" and we shall
try not to personally appropriate any O
those "hts," We don't know what agri
cultural editors he is driving Mt, as, with
few exceptions, our acquaintances among
she fraternity are very modest men =
and ii could not we'll be otherwise. II i
the universal rule, that while "a littl
knowledge is O dangerous thing" becaus
it puffs a man up, and makes him "arro
gant," good deal of knowledge make
him humble Agricultural editors de
vote their chief fattention to gatherin,
knowledge from wide field of observe
ton, aud they onght TO be, and We be
lieve generally are, far from arrogant
Is not Mr.. r. little arrogant in assumin
to speak for all the common people?~-
. We have strong admiration for tina
class--those possessed Of common sens,
and have aattered ourselves until tbi