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Rock Wheat — Cheap Manuring. 



Vol. IV. 



ble the succeeding day for other less exciting 

 purpose?. 



Those who have water to draw from a well, 

 or some distance to carry it from a spring, can 

 readily appreciate the value of a bucket of 

 water near at hand in case of fire. There 

 have been many cases of accident from fire 

 where a single bucket of water early applied 

 would have saved thousands of dollars. 



Domestics and children should be early and 

 constantly instructed both, by precept and ex- 

 (tmple, to use the utmost caution and circum- 

 spection in a.11 cases where fire is concerned. 

 Tn the use of candles and lamps by thought- 

 less or careless persons, many families arc 

 almost daily put in jeopardy; in many in- 

 ;.stances the snufl:' of a partially e.xtinguished 

 candle or lamp has been the cause of much 

 loss, and in every case the smell arising from it 

 is disagreeable and unwholesome, — and there- 

 fore every farmer's wife and daughters should 

 peremptorily insist on the purchase of an ex- 

 tinguisher for each room in the house, where 

 they should be constantly kept for the use of 

 the famil}^ and for those who may become 

 your guests or visiters, and by no means put a 

 friend or stranffertolodge in a chamber that 

 lacks so essential, yet apparently insignificant, 

 an article of furniture as an exlingvisher, 

 which costs but a few cents. Z. 



Rock "Wheat-"A ue-vir Variety* 



The Charlestown (Va.) Press says that " a 

 new kind of wheat of superior quality, and 

 which yields much more abundantly than any 

 hitherto raised in that county, has been cut the 

 present harvest on the farm of Mr. John Wy- 

 soNG, near Shepherdstown. Mr. W. obtained 

 the seed from Mr. Stonebraker, of Mary- 

 land, who became in possession of a small 

 quantity by accident, two or three years since. 

 From three bushels and tliree pecks sown by 

 Mr. W., on ground not the most favorable 

 part of his farm for wheat, he will, it is 

 thought, have a yield of at least 12.'") bushels, 

 some competent judges say 15() bushels. The 

 heads are very large, and contain many more 

 grains than the heads of wheat now generally 

 grown in .feflerson county. It attracts much 

 attention, and is evidently a new and very su- 

 perior kind of wheat, well worthy the atten- 

 tion of farmers. In a favorable season, and 

 land not unfavorable to the production of 

 wheat, it is believed it will always yield from 

 forty to fifty bushels per acre." 



The Rock Wheat. — Since the foregoing 

 article was in type, we have received some 

 additional particulars respecting tiiis new kind 

 of wlieat. It is called the rock wheat, from 

 the circum^-tanco thnt some two or three 

 years ago a single head of wheat, of peculi- 

 arly large size, and product, was seen grow- 



ing by itself from the crevice of a rock in a 

 wheat field. The head was careililly pre- 

 served and- the grain sown, and from it iiave 

 been produced tlie few parcels which were 

 sown last year by different gentlemen. Two 

 of these parcels foimd their way to Baltimore, 

 and on account of tneir remarkably fine qual- 

 ity, and the accompanying assurance of their 

 productive character, were bought for seed at 

 the rate of tiiree dollars per bushel. They 

 were sown in the vicinity of our city early 

 in October last, and we are now enabled to 

 state the result of the experiment as made by 

 one of the gentlemen, Mr. Joel Vickers. — 

 Three and a half acres of rich, well prepared 

 ground, have been found to produce at the 

 rate of forty-seven bushels to the acre. The 

 quality of the grain is excellent, and many 

 of the heads were found to contain forty-five 

 grains of wheat. Although it is admitted that, 

 when the character of the land and favorable- 

 ness of the season are considered, ordinary 

 grain would have produced a full yield, yet the 

 extraordinary product just stated in the case 

 of Mr. Vickers, as well as that quoted from 

 the Charlestown Press, proves that the rock 

 wheat is a valuable species, and well merits 

 the notice of wheat growers. — Baltimore 

 American. 



Clieap Manuring* 



Many farmers in this state of late years 

 have adopted the practice of manuring the 

 land for wheat the ensuing season, by turning 

 in green crops. For instance, take a field when 

 the grass upon it is about fully grown, say the 

 first of J\ily, and turn it nicely over with the 

 plough. Then harrow and sow with buck- 

 wheat. In four or five weeks, that is by the 

 middle of August, this crop will have at- 

 tained its growth. Turn this under with 

 the plough as you did the grass before. — 

 These two green crons thus ploughed un- 

 der, bring to the soil much manure from 

 the green haulm acquired from the atmos- 

 phere. They create an acti\e fern>ent;ition, 

 make the soil light and pliable, and manure 

 it more than if the same had been cut in the 

 form of hay or fodder and given to horses and 

 cattle in the barn. It is on the whole an ex- 

 cpllent mode of enriching soils, which will 

 ordinarily produce good wheat the next sea- 

 son. 



Not far from two centuries ago, the f^cot- 

 ish Legislature enacted that ^^a good and fnif- 

 Jicienl school shall be erected and maintained 

 in every parish." To these five little words 

 " a good and sufilcient school," introduced into 

 an Act of Porliament, not longer than a man's 

 thum!i, is ^-'cotland indebted at this day, for 

 nearly every solid glory she possesses. 



