Connecticut western news., 1883-10-10
FARM AND GARDEN.

paper read before recent meeting of the American Association for the Ad- vancemeiit of Science, at Minneapolis, Minn., Professor Richardson gave the following facts concerning the compo- sition of American wheat and corn:
 While our wheats are but trife lighter than the foreign wheats, they contain less water, about the same amount of ash, more oil, less fibre, and less albumen. The quantity of ash is greater only in Colorado wheat, due to rich mineral soil, while the decrease of albumen seems to be followed by de- crease of fibre. The wheats of the At lantic coast are the most deficient in al- bumen and smallest in size. The wheats of New York and Vermont are larger, but though highly cultivated are defi- cient in nitrogen. The Virginia wheats are extremely light in weight, but have rather more albumen, while those of Maryland are the best in that section. The wheats of Kentucky, Tennessee and Missouri are larger in size and slightly better than those of the Atlan- tic States. The wheats of Colorado, Minnesota and Dakota are as rich in ni- trogen as could be desired. In Oregon the size of the wheat is good, but the quality of the albuminoids falls to the lowest point, and yet in yield and size of grain it nearly equals that of Colo rado.
 Cultivation, increase of fertility and mineral matter is proven to have pow erfu1 effect. Latitude, it is claimed, made the difference in the quality of wheats, but experiments show that soil is the main factor.
 On Maryland farm fallow ground was found to produce grain richer in nitrogen and larger yield than corn land. Corn, by analysis, shows in hard | flint, an average of 11.62 per cent. of al- bumen, and in dry dents only 30 per cent. less. Corn draws its nitrogen more from the outside and deeper sources and is not so exhausting to the soil as wheat, and from it's long season will suc- ceed when wheat crop fails. As com pared with the latter, corn contains more water, twice as much oil, less starch, rather more fibre and less albu- minoids. The average amount of albu- men in our cereals is as follows: Wheat, 11.8; barley, 14.8; oats, 13.9; rye, 1886; corn, 10 per cent. ..
 CAUGHT BY FRosT.-My buckwheat -nine acres-is failure. It cost up to the time of cutting $50, not counting the use of team or the use of the land. The untimely frosts of September 3 and 4 killed 1t while in full bloom. Buck wheat is so delicate and the stalk so soft that the slightest freezing will destroy | it. There has not been such an un- timely frost in this latitude for nearly half a century. Within the last twenty five years frosts have usually held off until about the middle of September in fact do not now remember any kill ing frost early in September during this time. I have an indistinct recollection of an early frost similar to the one this year when was small boy. I remem- Der father made it rule to have the corn all cut up before September 10, for foar of frost, and to SOW the buckwheat by July 4 to enable it to manure before that time for the same reason.
 No doubt there has heen 8 change in the seasons during the last thirty years, spring and fall both being later. This order of the seasons has gotten farmers in the way of planting later. My buck wheat was sown this year July IS, six or eight days later than my usual custom Hot weather blasts buckwheat, and l try to SOW it as late as possible to have it matured just ahead of frost, and thus carry the filling time beyond hot weather. I calculated this year the phosphate put in with it-nearly 200 pounds to the acre-w would give it good start, and in fact, make gain of nearly week in it's growth, and being on an elevated field where the early frosts rarely affect crops, I thought it would be filling just in the nick of time. Then the season was two weeks later than usual, and took this into the account
 The result shows how helpless we really are. The crop is failure, and we are taught our dependence upon a higher Power. It is our duty, how ever, to learn wisdom by experience, and there is no doubt it would be safer to follow fathers rule and SOW buckwheat the first week in July. Another thing, we have got into lax way of planting corn, and putting that in very often too late It is always best to have the most growing part of the season for crops requiring long time to mature, and that part is generally the fore part. Summer drouths are very common of late years and we ought to try to get as much growth as possible for the crops before their damaging effects be- gin. The best field of corn is in this neighborhood the earliest planted, not withstanding the cold and wet begin ming of the season, at which time prophets were many who predicted failure and who waited for "corn wealth CT" before planting theirs, and now in their wisdom they gather shortened and soft ears.-F. D. CURTIS, Kirby Home stead, N. Y.
 REST satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.
 
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