The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1864-05-27
Fer the Joforsonian Democrat.
Does Wheat Turn Chess7

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There seom TO bo conflicting views on
this subject f; somo assort that, II you SOW
clear wheat, you will have clear wheat bu,
it stands recorded in Holy Wri, that |, may
bear whoat, or chance somo other grain.-
Hero 1t seems that wheat does undergo q
change, and l will enumerato some of the
processes hereafter. l see 10 tho u. s.
Patont Office Report, that Lovi Bartlett
Warner, Of Now Hampshire, says that, iu
his viow, IL is as absurd TO suppose tha,
wheat turns to chess as II would for scr.
pent to turn TO clam,or an oyster and this
clam TO subsequently change into a bird.
That is ono mans view OF the subject, and
many seem to think tho same way. We
who have raised wheat for series of years,
mover have raised field of wbost but that
thore was some chess In some parts Of tho
field. This canno, bo deniod. although tho
piece was new land, away from cultivated
parts, and not single seed Of chess sown.
And hero will state my experience Of
grain, for have sown rye and wheat for the
last forty years, beng raisod farmer. My
viows of tho way to av old choss, and how 10
raise chess, nre these: Now, to avoid chess,
SOW your whoat tho last days of August or
first of September, one.half bushol whea.
por acre, throshed with hand fail, aud, If
ihcre is half.bushel of prime chess seed,
not trouble to get II out; they will come up
together, and grow; but chess will joint,
and will die like oats, il II is sown at the
above timo. A piece Of wheat, tho fret of
Septembor, will have jas. ns much choss
Without one seed Of chess sowu. as tho
above, with the ono.half bushel Of chess,
aud no moro. on same ground. havo tried
tho operation several times myself To sow
whoat carly will secure better crops, and |,
will bo loss liable to rust or midgo, aud there
will bo less chess. If wheat is sowu the las,
of September or first Of October. with chess
in the seed whoat, Il will como up aud no,
joint, and you will havo good crop Of chess,
IL your wheat don't choke il.
Some say that wintor.kIled whoat mover
turns chess. On many such places, there is
not ono solitary head of wheat, and, on tho
adjoiniug,uot ono head of chess on tho land
and one rod apart. And, whom there was
nothing but whoat sown, aud the ground
was mover Gown to wheat before, or manure
put on at oil, did on ouomy dig up these
low spots, and SOW chess ? Think tho win.
ter was tho cause the chess grow. II moth.
ing had grown, thou talking of chesa would
be folly; but chess grows 10 such places
and anybody that has cleared off new lands
and raised good crop Of wheat, knows that
there nrc some wheat.heads, and good onos
too, left on the ground and not disturbed |;
that they lie there, swell with tho showers,
and shrink and swoll. and swoll and shrink,
and finally sptout oil along the head /; and
that tho production from thom tho ncxt
summer, is oil choss. From oil these wheat.
heads. thoro cannot bo found ono from
which all this chess sprang, while tho old
head and straw is fully visible. And now
wheat hoads on the piece. but chess on all
of tho difforont parts.
have sown wheat on now ground, and no
chess. and tho rabbits cat off, in the spring,
the part lying along tho woods, and, whore
thoy cat it off badly, thero was moro chess
than wheat. In the Same punches or stools
whore it was not eaten, was all whoat and
good. Wherever chess is raised, IL mover
grows but ono year after tho wheat crop is
taken off, for chess never makes any pro.
gross farther. Chess lying in the sun soon
loses its vitality. Spring wheat novor pro.
duces any chess, if it is manurod. with plonty
Of chess seed in it. Causes produce effects
and effects aro moro or loss tho cause OF
negligence; and Dow,if farmers would, when
they clean their grain, take care to take all
Of their foul seeds to some place where thoy
won't get in the manure, all farmers will
have less to contond with in fields. And
now, one word to our farmers: Change your
seed often ; when you get whoat, get |.
south, and corn north. On tho other hand,
whom wheat is raised on sandy land and
sowed clayed land, it does we'll.
have written the above because many
say like grows like; chess. after being raised
from degenerate development injured
wheat. becomes hard. worthless grain, and
cannot be improved to anything else. And,
If any ono secs fit to answer this, then will
try to show that wheat and chess have been
grown on the same stalk in this County.
J.T. MERRIMAN.
Burton, Ohio, March 2sib, 1864.