The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-01-29
CHANGE OF SEED.

The more the science Of agriculture is
advanced, the moro we become convinc-
ed Of theaecsssityof q change of seed or
stock on the farm. This is law that
holds good in the vegetable as we'll as
in the animal kingdom; in the human
rs well as in brute creation. In and in
breeding will not do when direct. 1t
causes deterioration. We see it in our
ut large.
A new infusion has an influence, as q
change of climate invigorates our
health: The secret we may not know;
but the fact We do know. Hence the
old native stock-of all kinds-of this
country is in the wretched coalition we
find it. We have been growing from the
same family, from the ssme stock Of the
farm-fsther to daughter, son to meth
er-till the incestuous thing is 20 more
to be endured. Our stock has SO degen-
Grated that something must be done.
Our potatoes rotor did till the remedy
was applied; our grapes are diseased;our
fruit suffers, of almost oil kinds and in
various ways our grain, the wheat, in
many parts is running out. There is
nothing the farmer nourishes, either an
imal or vegetable, that is not ailing.
We seemed to be cursed. But if it is a
curse we have brought it On ourselves.
Now look to the change that is being
wrought. The potato is being renov-
ated. A new infusion was given not
an infusion-but an entirely new crea-
tion-a new seed, and from abroad, as
was the case in the inception Of the
original diffusion. And what do we sect
A miracle Enthusiastically q revolu-
tion-has taken place. We now have
potatoes again. We we may put them
to the earth in confidence. No rot, but
the finest tubers; and so prolific; not the
racy old times surpassed them; indeed,
we have the old times back again.
This is oneof the great staples. What
aFs We to expect of the resti What has
been donef Something has been done;
and there is more doing. We have bet
ter wheat in some parts All must have
heard of the success of John Johnston,
of Geneva-the changes of his wheat,
and the consequent good results. He
is not alone; there are others. The age
is awake; shsrp-sighted men are at
work. Experiment is the order OF the
day, and the greatest aud best minds
are employed on our agriculture.
Our Indian corn grew as we found it.
What varieties have we not slice estab-
lished. And this grain has been less
subject TO the in and in corruption, the
different varieties being Inducements to
change. And thus we have at least one
healthy native plant.
Glover deteriorates Raised long on
the same land, the same seed used, 1t
will ruR out, will not grow. Thus we
know farms and sections that can raise
no more clover, or at least not sufficient
to make il remunerative, and these
farms and sections were once famous for
clover. Even if manure is used, it will
not remedy the evil or but to a slight
and transient extent Is 10 not the in
and in practice that thus enfeebles and
finally runs out the plantf We have
the authority of science to say that Il
has an influence. We cannot.disbelieve
this; we must accepts. And accepting
it, what are we TO dot We are TO do
one OF inc simplest things, to reach one
of the most important; simply change
the scotland necessarily the kind-get
O foreignized seed, one acclimated to
foreign uses; bred to new conditions.
This will be a new thing to this old
worn out seil-worn out in its uses for
the plant, this degenerated thing. As
by difference union is formed, so will it
be here. (No doubt the plants nutri-
ment is also affected)
We need go no father. The other
grains, and all organized beings, are
subject to the same laws Of deteriors-
ton. 1t shows, and that pointedly.
But we are to be constantly rotating
with seed as we'll as with other crops.