Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1864-11-01

asters of a severe winter, the local destruc-
tons caused by foundations, insects, etc.
This problem is very difficult of solution,
seeing that the double condition above
would not be enough, but it must prove
wheat productive and of good quality
1t is a work of patience that we propose;
but we have known men who have devo-
ted their lives to study and create new
varieties of hyacinths and tulips-why
cannot we see some who will devote few
weeks yearly to study and create valuable
varieties of wheat?
LINING WHEAT TO PREVENT Rot AND
SMUT.-This is done in different ways and
with different substances. Sometimes
weak solution of sulphate of copper (blue
stone,) and other weakened sui phuric acid,
solutions of potash, etc. But of all min
eral matters one of the most eficacious,
the least dangerous to use. the easiest and
cheapest to procure almost everywhere, Is
lime, which has given its name TO the OPP
GRAFTON. Lining is done by sprinkling and
times the powdered lime is sprinkled over
the grain, then pour on water, taking care
to stir constantly the mixture, enough to
make thin milk of lime; at other times,
the lime is first melted in warm water then
poured over the grain and stirred with
paddle until every grain is impregnated
10 lime by sleeping, after having added
water enough to the lime to make thin
milk lime, pour in the grain, stir it sever
al times until every grain is thoroughly
acted upon by the lime, then let it remain
several hours. NJ. Tester thinks that 6
bushels of lime of good quality are enough
for SO bushels of grain, and these quanti-
ties require at least $50 quarts of water.
Lime well employed is rightly considered
one Of the preventives OF rust or smut;
still it results from the experiments of
Matthew deDombasle that its effectiveness
can be still increased by the addition of
little salt. The following are the results
OF experiments made upon grains equally
affected, and much more so than is natur-
ally met with under the most unfavorabie
circumstances: 1000 gains harvested
from grain that had been stepped hours
in a solution of 10 ozs. sulphate of copper
(blue stone,) pounds salt, and so quarts
water, gave only 9 grains affected 1000
other grain coming from seed stepped the
same length of time in a solution of 20 ozs.
OluS StOlS III ~ VI "diSlS gave
only S; 1000 grains produced from seed
stepped "a hours in 50 quarts of water to
which 10 pounds of lime had been added,
gave 81 grains affected; finally, 1000
grains produced by the same seed, stepped
"a hours, so quarts of water, to which had
been added 10 pounds of lime and %
ounces salt, gave only 2 grains Affected
1t is proper to add that 46G grains out of
1000 were affected where no steep what
ever was used. 1t results from these ex-
periments that while the different prepar-
atoms of sui pilates, as have been proved
by the experiments made up to this day,
are powerful agents TO destroy or prevent
smut, etc, unfortunately, although the
danger of using them has been exaggera-
ted, the use of the salts of copper are not
without danger in inexperienced hands,
Lime besides is, as we see, certain in its
effects, and it is easy to add to the destruc-
tive action which it exerts upon the germs
of rust and smut by the addition of pc
cnniarily inappreciable quantity of salt
We, therefore, think it our duty to recon-
mend the use of lime in preference to eve
ry other substance.
These articles are translated from the
"Maison Rustique du Xix Steele" (the
| Country House of the Nineteenth Centu-
ry,) and these particularly. were written
by Messrs. Oscar LeClere Thouin and Vii
MORN. G..