so 
THE farmer’s manual. 
juices will support the kernel in the same state as 
when you cut the grain ; it will rather swell than 
shrink, after cutting. This is always safe, and must 
not be neglected, if you regard the ralue of your crop. 
The same causes often produce the same effects upon 
rye, and the same remedy will always prove efTeclual. 
I have said nothing in particular of the several 
kinds of wheat in common use. 1 have sown the t 
white bald wheat and the red-beSrdecT wheat, gene- 
rally, and when free from rust, they have done well*. 
The red-bearded spring wheat, when the seed can be 
obtained from Canada, or VcrmoiU, I have found to an- 
swer well, for one or two years ;’but never the third, 
from the growth of the same seed ; it then runs out, 
and must be renewed from the northern country. I 
have generally found my spring wheat more inclined 
to smut than the winter wheat, unless I use the pre- 
caution of steeping and rinsing it, as before observed. 
The stiff’ straw wheat, which h now coming into use, 
may become a safe crop against the Hessian fly, 
which alone will render it a great acquisition to our 
country ; should it prove equally safe against lodg- 
ing, when grown too stout and rank, as well as against 
the rust, and the fly, it tvill soon become of universal 
„se — upon this we hope much; but I can say nothing 
from experience, and have seen no authentic experi- 
ments on which 1 can rely. 
Steeping and rinsing seed-wheat to prevent rust, 
have been fully noticed. Several other remedies are 
noticed by Sir John Sinclair, as practised in England, 
viz. selecting the red wheats generally, as being 
hardier than the white. Sowing earlier than the 
common mode, say on or about the 1st of September, 
insteail of 1st of October, that the wheat may become 
ripe before the usual times of rust come on. Sowing 
thicker also at the saine’tiine, he remarks, will some- 
f In alt the recent experiments in the Agricultural Society of 
HartforJ County, a great preference has been justly given to tlic 
reJ-beftrUed wlieat. 
