The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-12-14
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| Cut cider barrel or oil fierce in two in the
middle, or use two large wash-tubs make
strong brine, strong enough to bear an
| egg, and II used hot all the better; put the
brine into one of the tubs and turn the
| wheat into it; stir 1t up two or three times
and skim off the chess, chat and light wheat
which will come to the surface then shovel
| it out into basket and let II drain over the
other tub; turn it on the floor, and slft
slackened lime on to 1t slowly, stirring it
with rake until II will not stick together;
| SOW as soon as possible. Rust is another
foe the wheat grower is obliged to encoun-
ter; the remedy for this disease is simply to
supply the soil at once with ashes and sand,
in addition to the careful selection and pres
| ervation of seed, as before described. Ii
| the farmer continues to SOW his seed with
out this care in raising and preserving it,
he will continue to have musty and smutty
wheat. The only remedy for the insect
| enemies, the nudge, the fly, the worm and
the climate bug, are careful selection and
thorough tillage. Make the wheat grow so
luxuriantly that the little which the insects
consume will not be missed nor the growth
| checked.
And new / should like TO be informed
whether chess, one of the pests of our
wheat fields, is a specific plant, belonging
to its own class and order, or wheat de-
generated by cold soil and bad cutiva-
tion."
81 am satisfied said DR.. Parker, "that
chess is specific plant, which springs up
on cold lands when wheat fails, just as
charcoal comes into the feeble barley field
and the mistletoe finds its home on the oak
and apple tree. 1t evidently does not be-
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wheat; and / have no idea that any mode
or degree of cultivation would ever convert
1t into mature and perfect wheat, which
would undoubtedly be the case were it in
| any degree a diseased form of that grain.
The old idea of Pliny that both wheat aud
barley had tendency to degenerate into
oats, with which he classed chess, seems to
have been accepted SO far as wheat is con-
cerned, until it has become popular pre-
judice; and the conversion of wheat into
chess is generally believed in our day, as
the conversion of wheat and barley into
oats, form of chess, was believed in the
days of Pliny. But accept no such the
| DRY. Plants do not break away from the
class to which nature assigned them any
more than animals leave the species to
which they belong and join another at
will"
BARLEY.-"I have found very fair pro-
fit from barley" said John John Thomas.
at grows we'll on strong land, and can be
raised to great advantage on soil which is
we'll prepared for seeding down to grass.
| In this connection, and for this purpose, it
is the best of all the grains-grass never
catching 80 well as when sowed in the spring
with barley. The amount of manure, more
over, which should be used IN preparing
the land thoroughly for good grass crop,
is also we'll suited to produce a good crop
of barley. On strong land, we'll prepared,
after crops of potatoes and corn, ploughed
in the autumn and cross-ploughed as early
| as possible in the spring, have harvested
| fifty bushels of barley to the acre. l pre-
pare my land as would for any other crop
requiring fertile soil, and SOW two bushels
and half to the acre. The manure used
should be well rotted barn-yard manure,
composted with sand or sandy loan if it is to
be applied to clay land. Barley is excellent
food for fowls and swine and in small guam
titles and for short period is beneficial to
horses as a change. / have tried 1t ON my
mich cows, using barley meal as a substi-
tute for corn meal but have been OBJ
liged to abandon it on account of the effect
1t produced on the milk. 1t generally COM
mands fair price for mailing, but the
market is SO variable that 1t is hardly safe
to raise it for this purpose slone. The straw
| ia excellent food for cattle-better than the
straw of any other grain. On the whole,
| Mr.. President, were it not so useful to SOW
in the spring with grass seed for the purpose
of laying down grass lands, l think should
abandon it for barley entirely. l have Of
| ten combined oats and barley, equal parts
| of each, and sowed them for fodder, with a
very good result. l think the two united
make a much more valuable winter food
than either alone"
RYE.
(Which do your prefer, spring or win
ter rye ?" asked Mr.. Hopkins of the club
generally.
II have land" said Moses Person in re-
ply, 'just suited to rye-light, somewhat
| weedy and warm l find can get better
crop of winter rye than can of that sowed
in the spring. have MANFRED this kind of
| land heavily, say with nine or ten cords of
good barn-yard manure, and have secured
what is called large crop-thirty-
bushels to the acre. But | have seldom
found it remunerative, even with the price
usually paid for the straw. am sure |
could have made more money from my
manure had l applied it to different land
and some other crop. | use for my rye
crop, therefore, lands which are not well
adapted to anything else-lands too light
for corn or barley or grass and with
moderate supply of manure get a crop
that pays pretty well. If had no such
land as this, should probably raise but lit
tie rye. On light land like this, use about
two bushels of seed to the acre. / look up
on rye as luxury in my honse-and on
| rye straw as luxury in my stable. That
Is all"
"Does anybody raise buckwheat q asked
Mr.. Hopkins.
"Ycs, replied Ben Adams, II do; al
ways raise little on an out of-the-way LOT,
the flowers for my bees, the grain for my
hens and pigeons, and my breakfast table;
and the straw for nothing. | should not
call 1t much of crop, any way"
81 think" said Mr.. Hopkins, ''this COM
pletes the list of grain crops, and that we
have given them a fair discussion, and
| hope a profitable one. Before adjourning
| the club, | desire, however, to bring to n
satisfactory conclusion in the mind of every
| gentleman present, a circumstance which
has given rise to some unpleasantness here,
and to great anxiety throughout the town.
| refer to the charges made against Mr..
John Thomas as public officer IN this
town. You observed | doubt not, that
| while the excitement was At It's height | re-
Trained from expressing an opinion on the
subject. Perhaps was over cautious, but
| was really al a loss what to do or say.
1 The events came upon me so rapidly and
rumors thickened so fast that could not
| Immediately bring order out of the chaos
| into which my mind was thrown; and |
| fherefora silently vatrhpd tho current of