AGREClJE., FUR AT,

ON Wheat TURNING TO CHEAT.


South-Carolina, August &c, 1927
{"newspaper_name": "Delaware journal.", "edition": "01", "page": "p1", "byline": ""}
{"character_count": 1292, "word_count": 241, "ccnet_language_score": [0.9872999787330627], "ccnet_perplexity": [1030.4000244140625], "fasttext_language": ["en"]}
South-Carolina, August &c, 1897.
Mr.. SKINNER,


SIR Having seen in your paper, No l5, some
remarks by farmer OF Frederick county, Va. reia-
tive to cheat in wheat; and giving his opinion thai
wheat does not turn to cheat, have thought proper
to offer you an experimental fact, and if you think
It merits place in your useful paper, you can give
It one. In the year 1928. my crop of wheat had in
it considerable quantity of cheat which was at
loss to account for. had seen none the preceding
year; but in order to clear my wheat from cheat
entirely, as thought, selected from the best part
Of my crop some of the best bundles, and carefully
separated all the cheat from The wheat before it was
threshed this work was not entrusted to servants,
or 10 any other person but tmysef; was, therefore,
perfectly satisfied that no cheat was left with the
wheat; this wheat was seeded separate from any
other; but when it became of such size as to dis
tnguish it from the cheat and from that time until
it matured, | could not perceive any difference in
the quantity of cheat, there appeared to be as much
with that produced from the seed had been so care
full to separate the cheat FROM as in that from other
seed am, therefore, Of opinion, that from some
cause unknown, wheat does turn to cheat A. p