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harvest time he secured the head and seeded it 

 in his garden the coming fall; (I do not recol- 

 lect the time, perhaps six years since;) he di- 

 vided the next years' produce amongst his neigh- 

 bors, and last fall there was perhaps 1,000 

 bushels of this seed sown ; one farmer had 400 

 bushels: it is called Kloss's White Blue Stem. 

 The wheat I send is the growth of last year ; 

 it will be recollected our country was filled with 

 rust and smut, — this wheat escaped, yet, it is 

 not quite as full in the grain as the crop of the 

 preceding year ; it weighs G5 lbs. per bushel. — 

 We have the Mediterranean wheat in our coun- 

 ty — the White Blue Stem is considered far su- 

 perior. Hoping it may prove useful to the agri- 

 culturist, it being Pennsylvania staple, I hazard 

 nothing in recommending it as the best wheat 

 in the northern part of the State, and quite the 

 best I ever saw. 



Truly, yours, 



John Snyder. 



January 18, 1843. 



We beg leave to return to Mr. Ellsworth the 

 thanks of our farmers for his constant and dis- 

 interested endeavors to promote their interests. 



The samples sent have been made up into 

 little packages of twelve grains each, and are 

 ready at our office for general distribution. 



To our friend Mr. R. B. Haxall, the well 

 known proprietor of the Columbia Mills, we 

 have exhibited the specimens received from the 

 Patent Office. The Valparaiso wheat he une- 

 quivocally condemns ; he says it is an old ac- 

 quaintance, has been frequently tried, and as 

 often proved to be totally unsuited to our climate. 

 The " Kloss' White Blue Stem" is a fine, plump, 

 heavy grain, (although he hardly thinks it would 

 weigh sixty-five) well worthy a trial, and cer- 

 tainly extremely valuable, if in any way invul- 

 nerable to smut and rust. 



IMPORTANT INVENTION. 



We have been much interested in the effects 

 of a small instrument having the appearance 

 of a child's whistle, but performing the important 

 operation of inflating and distending the lungs, 

 and giving them a healthy action. It almost 

 performs miracles. A friend who has just re- 

 turned from Philadelphia, and who used one of 

 these little tubes for a fortnight, measures about 

 four inches more around the chest than when 

 he commenced its use: his voice is fuller and 

 stronger, and there is every indication of perma- 

 nent improvement. This important little agent 

 in removing consumption is formed on very sim- 

 ple principles ; the patient breathes entirely 

 through a tube for four or five minutes, inhaling 



the air through one aperture and exhaling it 

 through a smaller aperture, thus retaining one 

 quarter of each inspiration, which tends to ex- 

 pand the lungs. 



This instrument is the invention of Dr. J. S. 

 Rose, of Philadelphia, a man of great talents 

 who makes that, wide-spread disease, consump- 

 tion, his sole study, and who, if his directions 

 are followed, promises almost to banish from the 

 land this baneful and inveterate foe to the hu- 

 man race. He has written a treatise on con- 

 sumption, which all who have weak lungs 

 should procure and read. — Boston Bulletin. 



For the Southern Planter. 



TOBACCO. 



Messrs. Editors, — I have read with attention 

 the extract in the last number of the Planter, 

 from a pamphlet, published by Peter Minor, Esq. 

 in 1822, on the "Cultivation and Management 

 of Tobacco, from the Plant Bed to the Prize." 

 It is interesting as well as instructive, thus to 

 go back and learn the views and modes of ma- 

 nagement which were entertained and practiced 

 even twenty years ago ; especially, when we 

 find them recorded by a practical man, and one 

 who seems familiar with his subject. It is thus 

 alone, that we are enabled to ascertain with ac- 

 curacy the improvements which experience has 

 brought to light. In the remarks which I am 

 about to offer, I shall avail myself of your invi- 

 tation, and attempt a review of some of the opi- 

 nions advanced in the extract before me, as w 7 ell 

 as to point out some of the improvements which 

 the experience of twenty years has, in my view, 

 established. 



Our writer's remarks on the selection of a 

 spot for a plant bed and the propriety of early 

 and hard burning, are, I think, judicious. One 

 great advantage of burning before Christ mas 

 (by which I mean late in the fall or early in the 

 winter) is, that it enables you to burn your land 

 harder, and thereby impart greater fertility to 

 the soil, which, if done late in the winter, will 

 make your plants late and inferior, and if fol- 

 lowed by a dry spring, cause a failure. The 

 rationale of this I have never seen attempted, — 

 but may it not be owing to the soil becoming 

 surcharged with so many caustic ingredients, 

 (as the potash, the pyroligneous and other acids 

 generate in combustion,) as to require exposure 

 to the atmosphere and rains for several months, 

 in order to become sufficiently neutralized to act 

 beneficially on the plants? Another advantage 

 of early burning is, that, with the same amount 

 of fuel, you can burn your ground much harder. 

 At that, season of the year your land is generally 

 in better order, and is not as cold as it subse- 

 quently is, and hence it requires less wood to 

 produce the desired effect. So it is economy 



