Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1898 — Long Island Farmers. [ARTICLE]

Long Island Farmers.

“Dollar wheat” has tempted Long Island farmers near Riverhead to make an Interesting experiment in wheatgrowing, which they propose to begin on an extensive scale, says the New York correspondent of the Baltimore Sun. For this purpose they have pur chased in Italy a ton of seed wheat of the red-bearded variety at a cost of $2 per bushel, including all freight charges, or about SBO for the ton. The Long Island agriculturists hope to be able to regain the reputation of Long Island wheat which it possessed in the last century, when millers were prosperous, and the old-fashioned longarmed windmills, some of which are still picturesque features of the landscape, were all in active operation. For some reason the quality of the domestic wheat degenerated, and for years has been so soft as to be useful only for feeding cattle. It is believed that the soil is quite as well adapted to wheat raisin,? as it was a hundred years ago, and that the importation of virile seed will cure the troubles the agriculturists have experienced.