Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1887 — The DisaoVery of Fuitz wheat. [ARTICLE]

The DisaoVery of Fuitz wheat.

To the Editor of the Millstone: Sir —As you want to know when, where and how I discovered Fultz wheat, I will give you a true statement of it: In 1862 I was harvesting for my j neighbor, Mr. Christian Yeoder. I' was binding after the reaper, and as I was going along I came to a place where the wheat was all down, except three heads which were standing erect. I cut them off and put them in my hat. During the evening I handed them to Mr. Yeoder, and requested him to plant the berries, remarking that it might be a new r kind of wheat. He asked me to take and plant them, which I did that fall. The first year 1 got about half a pint from the three heads; the next year I gleaned about six quarts. At the following planting time I tried drilling, but the drill wouldn’t sow it thick enough; then I put another kind ol wheat on top and sowed them together, and at harvest time hunted out the leads of the new- wheat, and

thrashed them, obtaining something over a half bushel. Then I had more fowork with uud could drill it. Iu he harvest of 1863 I had quite a large quantity. Of the first lot 1 distributed one bushel went to Mr. C. Detjyeiler. He sowed it in an o chard along the fence, and the snow dr fted on and smothered it, so that it didn’t do very well. He pro; juneed it a fraud, but tried it again the following year, sowing three acres from which he derived ninety-seven and a half bushel.-!. It is the best wheat we have for yield, and is uniform good quality. This is the history of the discovery and start of Fultz wheat. Respectfully yours, Abram Fultz. Allenville, Mifflin county, Pa., Feb. 18.

Early Potatoes.— Beside commanding a high price, there are other oonflideratafis that come in to make the early crop of potatoes valuable. Tht Early Rose continues to Bo as go xl ai the best., not. only for tiro early but the late crop, and always fetches a remunerating price in the market. But there i* this additional advantage in the early crop—it can be harvested and removed and the ground put in good order for fall crops. The best lU.mips we hava ever known came out of a piece o| Sound D-st cleared of .ly potatoes, deed, ne do not kno v of a more Erofitable arrangement of crops than to uve turnips follow potatoes. The wound usually has to be pretty good for potatoes, but it is not essential that the manure be very much decayed. Home, indeed, contend that long, strawy manure is all tho better for a Eotato crop. The turnips, on the other and, must have the manure very well decayed, in order to give out its best results. Hence, after the potato has done with its fertilizer, there is enough left for the turnip to thrive upon. Wheat and rye also thrive very well on land which has been previously wellmanured for potatoes. In all these cases the early potato has a groat advantage over the late one. They allow of • mueb-earlier preparation of tire ground lor the subsequent crop. There is still another advantage in an early potato. In this part of the country at least the plant is subject to the attacks of the stem-borer. They usually commence their ravages about the end of June. They bore out tho whole center pith of the stems, and before the end of July the plants are all (lead, being dried up before the potato is matured. In such cases there are not often fifty bushel* of potatoes to the aero, aud of these half of them are too small to be salable. By getting the potato early in the ground and using varieties which mature early, the tubers are of pretty good size befsea tho insects got to work, and thwAkei e is a groat gain. It seems to us we ci n almost do without any more late kinds. We say nothing here of the depredations of the beetle, as it has been so completely met and overthrown aa hardly any longer to be considered as a serious injury to the crop, early or late. - Q+ravmlovm Telegraph.