The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1872-02-08
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THE "FULTZ" WHEAT.

tracing considerable attentions in Mifiin
Juniata, Lancaster, and neigbboring
counties in Pennsylvania 1t is nearly
smooth, with boards occasionally is very
evenly six rowed the straw stands well,
the chaff close and adherent lit is claimed
that it has never been affected by weeviI.
The grains are short and plump, and
in color light dull red or dark white.
The Department Of agriculture has dis
tributed a quantity of this wheat, and as
the variety will be likely to receive an
| extended trial the coming year, its alleg-
ed history Will prove very interesting.
1t is stated that in the summer Of 1869
| Mr.. Abraham Fultz, of Mlfflin county,
Penn ylvania, while harvesting some old
Lancaster red wheat. noticed three beau
tiful heads of smooth wheat. He took
| these heads home, and in the fall soWed
the wheat on spot where brush heap
had been burned. The following sum-
mer he harvested half pint. In 1864
his crop filed basket, aud in 1865 he
had nineteen sheaves. Mr.. Fultz then
parted with a bushel of the wheat to Mr..
Christian Detweiler, who sowed it along
the north western side of an old orchard,
where it was partly smothered by snow
drifts and shaded by apple trees, In the
harvest of 1866 it was pronounced scarce
ly worth sowing, but when threshed is
was found to yield better than the favor
lite Lancaster red Mr. Detweiler again
tried it, and the next year, from about
three acres of sandy land, he harvested
about "a bushels Of prime clean wheat;
and the following year, from thirteen
| bushels sown on nine acres, he harvested
800 bushels. The yield with other par
| ties has been so to So bushels to the aero
The highest yield reported is By MIR.
| Emauuel Kauffman-lS0 bushels on four
acres This wheat makes an Indifferent
| show above ground in the fall or early
| spring, but it makes up when harvest
comes by it. splendid straw, fine heads OF.
wheat. and plumb grains.
ERADICATING CANADA THIsTLEs.
I notice that there is being said great
deal about Canada thistes in Western
papers. Their extinction is effected moro
readily than great many other pests
which the farmer has to deal with. On.
my father farm in New York, this this.
tie made its appearance, and was eradI-
Gated ia three years The process is this:
If the ground on which they grow be not
very rich. manure it heavily, and then
seed it with timothy; if it be meadow
land, enrich it thoroughly. When the
thistle is in bloom, the meadow will be
fit to NOW, ard of course the thistle will
be cut. The timothy, growing rank, will
Choke" the thistles, which in addition,
to being cut each year. will destroy them
as soon as the third year. No other pro-
cess that | know Of is SO, effect ual.
! D. II. p.
TIE MOST VALUABLE BREEDS OF POUL-
| TRY.
There is as much difference in the
| opinion of breeders and amateurs as to
which is the best and most valuable yari-
ETY. Of fowls to breed as there is IN any
one thing we know of. On this subject
the Practical Farmer gives its opinion in
this wise One Of our experienced
| poultry breeders, after tryir G most ofthe
rev breeds, classilies them thus as re-
4 IL In
| tons where eggs for use or market are
| more the object than anything else, he
recommends the French Houdan the
Dominique aud White Leghorn breeds
For fowl for gen eral purposes, and com
bining large size, good laying properties.
quiet habits easy fattening and tender
flesh, he prefers Partridge Cochins, dark
Brahmas, Light Brahmas, Buff Cochins.
These are all hardy, aud every way de-
SRA Die"
THE cultivation Of tie tea plant seems
to be successful in Georgia aud other
Southern States A Mr. j. J. Mccoy,
writing from Kentucky to the Ironton
(Ohio) journal says that for three years
he has grewn his own tea, The plant
produces yearly four or five crops Of
leaves, and on space only thirty feet
square he car raise enough to last small
family for a year. Several merchants
and tea drinkers, he says, have tasted
his tea and pronounced it equal to tho
best imported.
SIMPLE CURE FOR RHEUMATISM
The Call furnishes the following as q
sure cure for this painful disease:
boil small potful Of potatoes. and
E bathe the part affected with the water in
which the potatoes were boiled, as hot as
can be applied. Immediately before GO
, ing to bed. The pains will be removed,
, or at least alleviated, by the next morn
: ing. Some of the most obstinate rheu-
, matte pains have lately been cured by
r one application Of this novel and simple
+ remedy"
THE oldest tree on record in Europe
, is asserted to be the cypress of Somma,
in Luui hardy, in Italy This tree is be-
iieved to have been in existence at the
time of Julius Caesar, fortE-two years be-
fore Christ, and is therefore 1,9l4 years
old. is 100 feet in height, and twenty
feet in circumference at one foot from
!. the ground. Napoleon, when laying
down his plan for the great road over the
Simplon, diverged from straight line
to avoid injuring the tree.