THE SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
203 
.IN’, was so pleased, though thin land, has been 
gathered, and has }’ielded an average of 30 
bushels; and having been with the wagon, 
knowing how many rows it required to fill the 
wagon, through nearly the whole field, we verily 
believe much of it yielded over 40 bushels. 
We have freqaently, in pri 'ate conversations 
with friends, urged the advantage of closer plant- 
ing; and in each ol these three crops, there 
were times that we feared we had ’“'paid too 
dear for our whistle,” not only from the gene- 
ral expression cf opinion adverse to our plan, 
but from appearances. Those who plant cotton 
cannot give corn the early pushing that it should 
have, an I it is made to snfier from not being 
plowed early enough, and afterwards also, from 
the necessity of plowing too deep, to enable us 
to cover grass. This is one reason why, at a 
certain period of its growth, it has an unfavora» 
ble appearance. We intend to devote a portion 
of our time hereafter, as well as a portion of 
Jabor-aod land, towards testing close planting of 
com, as well as large yields oi cotton, ard have 
marked o J some few acres on a piece of level 
land, where the pea-vine has reigned lord and 
master for two years, intending to try lor 100 
bushels of com per acre — the land cleared in 
’33, in cotton some 7 years, corn 2 years, ani 
peas 2 j'ears— not certain but that it was in cot- 
ton 8 years and corn only one — not over ordina- 
ry land for these parts when cleared. 
We are anxious to fasten it on our reade;'s, 
that we can do any thing that any other people 
can; and then we will see attempts made at it; 
but so long as “we can’t do this or that,” is at 
our tongue’s end we never will. Let us all try 
to do more towards making our Mississippi in- 
dependent, and each other happy — and it will be 
done, — Soidh- Western Farmer. 
From the American Farmer. 
THE MEDITERRANEAN OR GERMAN WHEAT. 
The following communication upon the ori- 
gin and quality of tnis wheat will be read with 
interest, and we sincerely thank our esteemed 
iriendDr. Horton for the pains he has taken to 
make its merits known. We agree with him 
that every Country should have its Agricultural 
Society — nay we will go lurther and say, that I 
evQij election district should have its AgricuUu- j 
ral Club. 
Mr. Editor^ — Feeling a lively interest in eve- 
ry th ng that relates to 'the prosperity of the ag- 
ricultural community, and having, as you 
know, taken much pains to find a preventive to 
that scourge of our staple crop, the Hessian fiy 
I a short time since addressed a letter to James 
Pannell, Esq., an intelligent farmer of this 
county, tor all the information in his possession 
concerning the “Alediterranean wheat.” I also 
requested him to obtain the like information 
from Mr. Thomas Hope, who, I was informed, 
was the first to introduce this wheat to our coun- 
try. 
Herewith you have Mr. Pannell’s reply to 
my letter, which, for the information of our ag- 
cultural iriends you will please to publish. It 
will doubtless be a matter of surprise to you, as 
it was to me, that this wheat has been cultivat- 
ed in Harttord county thirteen years ! It must 
place some of our friends, who claim the cred- 
it of having introduced it, quite in the back 
ground. 
Near Churchville, ) 
21st Nov., 1843. ) 
Dear Doctor, — Upon the receipt of your let- 
ter requesting me to get for you Mr. Hope’s in- 
formation and personal knowledge respecting 
the “Mediterranean wheat,” I wrote to that gen- 
tleman by the first opportunity, and received his 
reply on Saturday last, which I take much plea- 
sure to communicate to you. He says he re- 
ceived it first in 1830, from the State of Dela- 
ware — it came from up the Mediterranean sea 
from Turkey. He sows from IJ to 2 bushels 
to the acre, and it yields from 10 to 25 bushels 
per acre — the flour equal to that from the Red 
wheat, and will produce about the same price in 
the market. It shouled be sowed from the 5th 
to the 10th of September, and he never had any 
! injured by the fly, when other wheat in the same 
i field has been destroyed. He has heard of the 
; fly injuring it, butbelieves that it has been from 
I its being mixed with other kinds of wheat, 
! which will occur. He was induced to try it on 
j account of its having been represented to be 
\jty-proof, of u'liich he is vjell satisfied. It was 
i brought to New Castle, Delaware, hy a sea cap- 
tain, whose name Mr. Hope does not recollect. 
My experience of this v/heat has not been as 
long as Mr. Hope’s (^having got my seed from 
him) but so far as I know 1 agree with him as 
to his statement, in communicating the above, 
I do it with the remark, that I do not know how 
far Mr. Hope would like his name brought be- 
fore the public. In case you should conclude 
to publish any statement respecting this wheat, 
his communication was friendly and personal, 
and I beg leave to suggest, if jmu wish to make 
use of his name, that his consent should first be 
obtained. 
I have part of a. field (about 2-1: bushels sow- 
ing) this season, which looks fine now, and 
which I commenced sowing the 4th of Septem- 
ber. and which I think will test its properties as 
to its resisting the fly. I mentioned to you m3" 
opinion was, that it came from Odessa, a 
city of Russia, up the Archipelago. Mr. Hope 
states it to have come from Turkey; the climates 
I presume were similar. 
With esteem and respect, 1 rest, dear sir, 
Your friend and servt. 
James Pakneul. 
' 1 take the responsibility of publishing the 
! above letter without having obtained the consent 
I of either Mr. Hope or Mr. Pannell. From the 
; known intelligence and respectability of both 
these gentlemen, as farmers and citizens, their 
testimony will go a great way in settling a con- 
trovers}' which is now in agitation concerning 
the Mediterranean wheat, Mr. Hope’s expe- 
rience with it is, I presume, of longer standing 
than that of any farmer in the State of Mary- 
land, and although he and Mr. Pannell, from 
their modesty, may have no wish to have their 
names brought before the public, 5’et I am sure 
from the interest they both take in diffusing cor- 
rect information on a subject of such vital im- 
portance to the agricultural corcmunit}", they 
will readil}' excuse the liberty I have taken. 
Here is a case which shews the great impor- 
tance of establisning an Agricultural Society 
in each count}". Mr. Hope is a citizen of Hart- 
ford county, and not more than twenty-five 
miles distant from the writer of this communi- 
cation ; }"et the latter had not heard till very re- 
centl}", of his having any knowledge of the Med- 
iterranean wheat. Had the information which 
he possessed, in regard to its being a Jty-proof 
loheai, been known, it would have saved thous- 
ands of dollars to the farmers of this county — 
tw"o }'ears having occurred, since its introduc- 
tion by him, in which the wheat crop was al- 
most a total failue from that scourge, the Hes- 
sian fly. 
In regard to the flour-producing properties of 
this wheat, Mr. Pannell has verbally informed 
me that he thinks it at least equal to any other. 
Mr. Richard Webster, an experienced miller, 
and one of high respectability, has expressed an 
unequivocal opinion in its favor upon this con- 
troverted point. In addition to this I have the 
testimony of several of my neighbors, which is 
of the same purport. 
I am, very respectfully, yours, 
W. L. Horton. 
Wood Laicn, Harford co., Nov. 25, 1843. 
Rules worth being observed by Farmers. 
— 1. Perform every operation in the proper sea- 
son. 2. Perform every operation in the best 
manner. 3. Always keep your implements 
and tools in the best order. 4. Finish one job 
before you begin another. 5. Alter finishing a 
job always return your tools to their proper pla- 
ces. 6. Do not put in a crop too large to culti- 
vate well. 7. Personally attend to every oper- 
ation, and see that it be effectually done. — Balt. 
American. 
From the Southern Planter. 
AGRICULTURAL APHORISMS. 
As the stalk of corn in the field, so the j'oung 
man ; both must be cultivated or their litiit will 
be chaffy. 
Some men subsist b}" labor of the bed}", some 
by labor of the mind; a combination of both is 
iuiportant to success. 
Some men write without thinking, some 
ihmk without writing; the one is willing and 
not able, the other able and not willing. 
There is no profit without capital, The mer- 
chant’s capital is his money ; the farmer’s cap- 
ital is his manure bank. 
Winter time is hard b}", and I venture to ad- 
monish every farmer to count his cattle, and 
then his hay stacks, and if the one shall exceed 
the other, then either sell, eat, give away, or kill 
the surplus to keep them from dying. 
Agriculture is lavorable to morals, to health, 
and to wealth. 
Mankind might do without physicians, if 
they would observe the laws of health ; v itl,- 
out lawyers, if they would keep their tempers ; 
without soldiere, il they would observe the law s 
of Christianity; and perhaps without preachers 
if each rvould take care of his own conscience : 
but there is no living without farmers. 
Argus. 
Amherst, October, 1843. 
From the llaliimore American, 
Improved Agriculture. — At a meeting of 
the Farmers’ Club of New York, last week, the 
following facts relating 10 extraordinary results 
in Agriculture and Horticulture were presented 
to the notice of the members. We re-publish 
the statement for the benefit of a numerous list 
of agricultural subscribers of the American ; — ■ 
Mr. Pell, of Ulster county, made a statement 
relative to his experimental farming, from which 
it appeared that he had found benefit from the 
use* cf Oyster shell lime — using 300 bushels 
per acre. That in addition he had employed 
52 bushels of Charcoal per acre. That on this 
Charcoal dressing he obtained last summer 78 
bushels and ^4: qxiarls wheat per acre. That 
he had 20,000 apple trees in full bearing. That 
in dry weather he had applied lime freely at the 
roots — found that thispreserv"ed the verdure and 
growth when the neighborhood was much in- 
jured by the drought. That he had cut wheat 
two or three weeks sooner than his neighbors ; 
and when the roo"s of the straw began to turn 
brown and when by pressure of the finger and 
thumb on the giain, its milk would fly out.— 
That this wheat weighed 64 pounds per bushel. 
That he sold it for seed for $1 when ordinary 
wheat was 7s, That he cut clover and housed 
it on the same day— sprinkling about a bushel 
of salt over every load. That this clover re- 
tained its green color and was prefeired by cat- 
tle to that saved the old way. That be dipped 
sponge in ammonia and applied to the worm 
nests on his trees and banished them complete- 
ly. That he has sent io xnd.xket fvur thousanrt 
barrels of apples, many of which go to London 
and there sell for nine dollars per barrel. That 
he employed a man from Vermont to engraft 
10,000 apple trees for $150. That this man 
brought a company of men, two sawed off the 
proper limbs; two more made the proper incis- 
ions (two of them) in the back, two more in- 
serted the grafts, two more applied a compost of 
wax, tallow and rosin. That out of the 10,000 
grafts not one failed. 
For Tetters and Ringworms. — Procure the 
roots of the yellow or narrow leaf dock, bruise 
them an j soak them in good apple vinegar, and 
rub the tetter or ringworm three times in the 
day till a cure is effected. This is a certain 
remedy, except where the nails of the fingers 
are diseased. 
Another.— Bruised mullen leaves and vine- 
gar constitutes an excellent remedy. It is said 
to be a sure restorative of the nails, particular- 
ly if the patient does not become weary in well 
doing. 
