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Vol. IX — No. C] 



1st mo. (January) 13th, 1815. 



[^^ hole No. 120. 



PUBLISHED MONTHLY, 



BY J O S I A H T A T U 31, 



EDITOR. AND PROPRIETOR, 



No. 50 North Fourth Street, 



PHILADELPHIA. 



Price one dollar per year. — For conditions see last page. 



Report of Experiments ou the %'arieties 

 of Wheat cultivated iu the folate of 

 New-York. 



[For wliicli experiments a premium has bsen awarded 

 by the N. Y. State Agricultural Society.] 



By R.*.wson H.tUMON, Wheatland, Monroe Co. 



We had intended, from month to month, to publish 

 the following Report, &c., but have not till the present 

 time, found the opportunity. The statements and ob- 

 servations are not only interesting to our asricultural 

 readers generally, but practically valuable tn wheat 

 growers. To be able to make choice of thf variety of 

 wheat adapted to his location, soil, and mnilc of culti- 

 vation, is one of the important arts of the farmer, and 

 gives room for the exercise of a good deal of judg- 

 ment. — Ed. * 



The culture of wheat has called forth 

 the attention of the agriculturist in tlie tem- 

 perate zones more extensively than any 

 other grain. 



The varieties have been extensively mul- 

 tiplied — each variety has its advocate. The 

 varieties cultivated three thousand years 



Cab.— Vol. IX.— No. 6. 



'ago, appear to iiave been much inferior to 

 isome of the varieties of the present day. 

 jThe quantity was probably greater tlian that 

 obtained from some of tlie most valuable 

 varieties of the present time; but the grain 

 was coarse, containing mucli less of the es- 

 sential qualities of good wheat — gluten and 

 starch. The varieties cultivated at the pre- 

 sent day, appear to have as great a difference 

 in their quality, as there was between that 

 cultivated belbre the Christian era and the 

 present time. 



White Flint. — The origin of tliis valua- 

 ble variety is not certainly known. It is 

 claimed that it was introduced into New 

 Jersey from Spain, in 1814, and from thence 

 spread through many of our wlieat-growing 

 districts. It is likewise claimed to have 

 been brought from the Black Sea into New 

 York, about the same time. The supposi- 

 tion that it originated in the town of Rome, 

 Oneida county, in this state, where it was 

 called Mud Flint, from having been found 

 growing on muck soil, is not entitled to se- 

 rious consideration. Its first appearance in 

 Western New York was about twenty-five 

 years since. 



The strongest probability is, that it was 

 first brought from the Black Sea into this 

 State. Its origin is of less importance than 

 the proper appreciation of its value to the 

 cultivator. it is generally acknowledged 

 to be one of the most valuable varieties that 

 has been introduced to the wheat-growers of 

 the Northern States. 



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