Green Bay Republican (Newspaper) - April 16, 1844, Green Bay, Wisconsin I The noblest motive of the Press is the diffusion of Knowledge and Intelligence without bias or BY HENRY O SHOLES GREEN BAY WISCONSIN TUESDAY APRIL 16 1844 VOL 3 NO 27 GREEN BAY FRIDAY APRIL Green Bay Farmer THIS INHOSPITABLE REGION If any person wants any better finer or pleasanter weather than we have had here for the lost ten days we know not where it may be found for several days we have needed no fires the frost is all out of the ground and Farmers are ing and so wheat By the by we have a word of advice to give just at this particular time about seed be sure to select good seed and then wash it in water and strong ley and terwards roll it in lime in every case when this method has been pursued the crop has been entirely free from smut The wheat raised by Mr Stewart Mr Woodruff and some others which has been admired for its perfect whiteness and freedom from all impurities was in every case produced from seed prepared in this way It is but little trouble and the benefit and satisfaction of having a fine crop are incalculable It will be seen by the article below which we copy from the Prairie Farmer that at least one farmer thinks that spring wheat is preferable to fall give it now because it is just in time and ask farmers to follow its directions faithfully so as to be ablo to judge for themselves Too much cannot be said and done in regard to the raising of wheut wo therefore give all the information we can on the subject Spring Wheat nV BREAKER There has been and in some sections of the West there still exists a strong agonist spring wheat And as I think it has arisen in consequence of errors committed in the management of it I beg leave to speak a few words in its favor and as a I will or to point out some of these errors and give the remedy so far as rny experience or observation will enable me 1st a good article is generally ed to full wheat for bread by those who have tried it 2d with the same labor bestowed it will as a general rule yield more per acre than winter wheat 3d it buing sown in the spring ers can raise more wheat with the same amount of help than they could if de- pendent entirely upon a winter crop The argument will also apply in regard to harvesting as the time of ening is a little later The of a good article is but little less than fall wheat Now for errors 1st in general the ground is not perly prepared It should be plowed in the fall I raised the pust season 28 els to the acre on ground thus prepared without doing any tiling to it again but harrowing If I had plowed it again in the spting I am confident I should have obtained 35 bushels On land that was not full plowed I obtained but 20 els to the acre 2d the seed is not well prepared It should be washed in brine and then as strong a corrosive applied ns the wheat will boar without injuring in order to free it from smut One of my neighbors pursued the ing method with three different parcels 1st washed in water and then in strong Icy 2d washed in ley alone 3d sowed without washing The result was that the first had no smut to injure it tho had but tle but more more than the first the 3d was fourth smut The wheat spoken of above was the red chaff bald a very handsome wheat more nearly resembling winter than any variety I have seen but I think more liable to in- jury by smut than the Siberian white chaff bearded or the white chaff bald There is another thing of note in relation to the parcels washed in there was n marked difference in its favor over the unwashed through every stage of its growth and it yielded more per aero The wheat should not remain in the ley hut a few minutes If it be ed in brine and dried with lime it should be left in bulk 36 after the lime is sifted on before sowing Error third there is not a sufficient quantity of seed sown to the acre Two bushels is little enough if sown early as the spring more is ed if sown grain sown thin dn onr rich lands will spread ov ler and while occupied in this operation valuable time And it does shooting upward the season is so far advanced that it grows very rapidly the straw rank but weak is consequently liable to rust the heads will not be uniform in size those ced by the last formed shoots er in consequence of the main shoots overtopping them and taking a larger share of nourishment both from the root and the atmosphere On the contrary when grain is sown thick it occupies but little time in tillering and before the season is so far advanced as to cause a rapid growth it acquires a hardiness or firmness in all its qualities that it does not lose in the latter stage of its growth From an experiment made last spring 1 am inclined to believe that three els is safer than less I sowed that tity on one through the middle of a field and at harvest the advantage was clearly on the side of the thick sown The straw was not so tall as that on either side where two bushels to the acre had been sown but it was bright and stood very thick on the ground well headed a plump round berry and ened several clays earlier than any other part of the field And this last is a fact worthy of being taken into account Every farmer of any experience knows that the earlier grain comes to maturity the Jess liable it is to rust And there is another fact that probably all have ob- which is that if there be spots iu the field but partially seeded or if from any cause the grain has been ed out blight or rust will be found in those spots if it be found any where in the field This I think is good evidence in favor of thick seeding for in these thinly seeded places the plant has room to spread or tiller and is thus occupied while the other parts of tiie field are ing on to maturity But to conclude prepare your ground well wash your seed m brine and lime it or souk it in ley and sow it early and plenty of it and my word for it you will make it a part of your crop ever after- wards There is no fog or smoke about it but all plain sailing From Graham's Magazine is Every Thing BY JOSEPH E CHANDLER The course of true love it is said did never yet run smooth and those who have had experience on that turnpike of the or rather railroad as it is soon run over bear testimony to the jolts and up alive of which the people speak We have no great taste in this time of politics and perplexities to dabble in fancy und risk our reputation for yet the illustration of an aphorism of ted truth may be considered seasonable and the moral deduced from the tion tuny compensate some for the time of reading it In the year 1814 we remember the time well because a part of the incidents of the story were connected with a great event an event not likely to be ten well in the year 1314 a young man who to a visionary mind and a consequent want of employment added a most desperate affection for a young dy quite too good for him if his business pursuits were alone considered but just his match if confiding affection purity of mind and innocence of purpose are the reward of large endowments strict integrity and a desire for honest tence without the means of obtaining it There was no more pleasing young man in the thriving village than Henry Bradford and every body agreed with most able person and the best educated about But he did despised and did not take to the church he had frequently thought of but that required a capital which he could not raise and so he did not get ahead though he was forever on the brink of some wonderful success which he certainly would have secured if he had only entered upon the enterprise Mary Carver evidently loved Henry Bradford for knowing that excepting his handsome person pleasing manners and a good character he had nothing to offer she would not otherwise have been deaf to the offers of so many young men whose character nnd positions rendered them desirable to the family These of- fers were repeated so often and hints BO strong were given to Mr and Mrs ver thai it was doomed proper after a serious deliberation in cabinet council to admonish their daughter that Henry was in no business and was not likely to be in a way to maintain a family Mrs Carver opened the diplomacy with her daughter and after two or three conferences under the laugh of who declared that she did not doubt that Would one day be rich enough to take care of both for had a dream that should be Mrs ver had no disposition to laugh in such a serious mission and no desire to be an- gry with her daughter Mary however knew that when her father enme to she would have to use other arguments than laughter and therefore she admonished Henry of the approaching storm Henry thought of it two or three days an unusual time for him to devote to any thing like his personal affairs At length the family was honored by a formal offer from a clergyman in a boring town He was learned pious rich and respected and such an offer was not to be slighted It was not ed Old Mr Carver took the subject to i heart and Mrs Carver gave her shear 1 muslin cap a double clear starching on the very idea of becoming law to a minister Mary pondered these things in her heart She saw the im- probability of Henry's ever attaining a situation that would warrant matrimony She was listening to her mother's account of his want of application to business his apparent disregard of all the ordinary means of attaining competence and of utter lack of what is called common sense and the old lady concluded her homily with a remark that she believed Henry Bradford would think more of a dream of wealth twice repeated than of the best prospects that ever presented business preferment tl said Mary Henry is not a fool i said Mrs Carver hesitatingly a fool certainly Why then do you talk so of asked Mary But there he is coming con- tinned the girl i Speak to him plainly my said Mrs Carver Mary made no answer for she was a little mortified at the ludicrous turn which her mother had given to Henry's rather dreamy propositions though she had never heard him build any castles in the air out of such materials Henry came in with his usual ant humor and sat down by Mary and after a few words he perceived that something was wrong have you been ing the Sorrows of No Henry but I have been ing to mother's tions over you She Nevermind what she says Mary as I perceive it is not very good just listen to what I have to tell Well what is it Henry I hope it is i good Excellent it will be ful Do then tell me what it is Why last night I exclaimed Mary with a most dolorous sigh Aye dreamed I dreamed that I had drawn ten sand dollars in the Plymouth Beach tery Well what Why I dreamed the same on day night and on Tuesday night and the number was 5432 Well I stint to Boston on Wednesday and purchased the ticket and here it is you shall keep it Mary and when 1 go to Boston for the prize yon shall go with me Poor Mary smiled mournfully and Henry left the house and went home satisfied that he had made a right disposition of the ticket Day after day did Henry watch at the Post Office to read the first report of drawing but day after day past without the desired information At length one of the young men was heard to remark that Henry Bradford had shot out of the Post Office as if he received some strange intelligence said Henry here is paper and look at tlie returns No 543 THOUSAND DOLLARS Mary turned news was un- expected Let's go to said Henry and get the money The prizes are payable thirty days after said Mary looking at the bottom of the ticket That night Mary told her mother of Henry's Mra Carver seemed rather startled Are you not pleased asked Mary do wish to oppose other ob- to our said Mrs Carver do you recollect the most uncompromising which your father has to lotteries utter abomination of money thus This prize will be worse to him than Ever since they refused to make him a manager in mouth Beach Lottery he has set down the whole as gambling and every prize as the devils for say the truth most people begin to hold ions with him i Why mother every body did not ask j to be made a manager in the No no but people may like your ther arrive at correct conclusions from selfish considerations and good opinions may become general without any cial motive for change The next day Mary gave back to ry his ticket with an account of the con- versation with her mother Henry was mortified at the result he understood and appreciated the feelings of the old and in any other sons case he might have approved of it But what does your father said Henry Does he suppose that the mode adopted to build churches endow schools and finish public works is too im- pure to supply the needy purse of one who wishes to be his son-in-law He is moie i nice than wise My father said Mary may not think himself called upon to be as about what concerns the public charities corporations or indifferent in- he is and is bound to be in what concerns the respectability of his own family But if I acquire wealth by lawful father never that you should be wealthy he thought it proper and he makes it u condition of our riage that you should have some j table business as you have not wealth And your said ry but how I am to get clear of the n m of my lottery prize I can neither see nor you will dream it suid Mary archly I can dream of nothing but ers brigs and said Henry I Oh if you only owned a good i said Mary I do not know but father would almost forgive its coming us a prize A prize to a said Henry but not in a lottery Henry wandered down towards the wharves unoccupied ship The war allowed of little or no work among tho ship builders The hull of a fine brig lay at the wharf She had been launched a year and there was none to purchase her She was too sy for a Mr Henry what is that worth j She is worth twenty thousand said the owner and builder she j cost that as she is and she will bring twenty-five thousand the very hour j peace is declared you like the money for her at a cash i Nothing would be more acceptable But there are not fifteen thousand lars in the The remarks of Mary about her respect for a ship owner hnd been running in Henry's head ever since they were uttered and he beckoned the owner Mr Holmes said Henry have a commission to fulfil and as you know i I am not much of a business man 1 must j ask you to consider a proposition which I am about to make to you and to an- swer me explicitly Let me hear the proposition I will give you ten thousand dollars for the as she now lies And the time of Within forty days You cannot want the money the river is frozen over and you could make no use of the cash before that time Mr Holmes turned to Bradford and You know Henry that I am aware that you have not the means of payment and also that you are not a person likely to be employed as an agent in such business and yet I have every your word Henry explained fully to the ship owner the slate of his affairs and bited to him the lottery ticket No 5 4 3 2 said Mr Holmes there may be some mistake about the matter or some failure of the lottery by which I should lose Henry explained his motives and wishes and in two he held in his hand a of sale of the brig us which as the papers were not ob- he immediately renamed MARY The condition was that Henry was to hold the vessel for forty days and if within that time he should pay ten thousand dollars she was to be his if not she was to revert to Mr Holmes who in the mean time held the ticket as a sort of collateral The of sale as I saw it bore date the 5th of February 1815 felt like anew man He a ship owner m a place where that character was a sort of aristocracy He went day after day to look at brig wishing timp to pnw the prize to be paid but he Mid nothing yet to Mr Carver One evening while Henry was with Mary she asked him what he intended to do with the vessel when the days were up Rig her bend her sails and then seM her or send her to sea Why Henry it took the whole of the ticket to buy the hull and the spars and it will take half as much more to rig her and find canvass and besides that how can you sell her for more than Mr Holmes could t Henry hesitated he had not thought of that but he did not doubt but it would all come right yet Henry was sitting the next day of his brig looking at the well covered with snow and ice and thinking of the better appearance she would make when the rigger had done his duty At length he felt the hand of Mr Holmes upon his shoulder said the latter I am sorry to have bad news to tell you Read that paragraph in the Boston ticket which drew the highest prize in Plymouth Buoch Lottery was 4 5 3 2 and not as our compositors stated last week 6 4 3 2 We understand that a gentleman of wealth in the southern part of this town is the fortunate holder What do you suy to that Henry V Only that the old gentleman will not now say that I have the wages of No nor will he give you the credit of being a ship said Mr Holmes You have been unfortunate Henry and I am really sorry for ued Mr Holmes changing his tone con- and regret ray own loss M I have need of the money but as yoa pay for the brig you would ter hand me the of sale and let US destroy it Henry drew from his pocket the pre- document and while he examined it from top to bottom he said to Mr This affair has been to me like a pleasant dream not only on count of my aspirations for Mary which you are acquainted with but day after duy I have felt a growing energy for siness a sort of the mind a determination with such a noble be- ginning to proceed cautiously but ily to do what 1 ought to have begun yoars since Then Mr Holmes as the has yet some days to run before I be chargeable with violation of con- 1 will restore it to my pocket book and if I cannot dream as I have done I not at least be awakened too denly Mr Holmes of course consented as really had no right to claim the sel until the forty days should have ex- and Henry went up to tell Mary of the new turn his luck had taken Though Mary respected her father too much to feel pleasure in Henry's new possession yet she loved Henry too much not to feel deeply grieved at his bitter disappointment That said Henry ly that dream has not yet come to puss Some days after there was as a gathering at the post office at si distance from the ship yard ing the arrival of the mail The stage the usual hour drove up and the ver said as he handed the into the house that he guessed there wan hotter news to-day than he had brought since the victory on the Lnkes Another victory Mr Woodward T No not another victory hut PEACE Cnn you tell said a dapper look ing young gentleman as he slipped from the stage where lean find Mr Holmes the owner of the brig Helvetius V Mr Holmes lives on the hill was the reply but it is thought he does not own the Helvetius now he sold Yes Well lam sorry for is Mr Bradford the young man whom you see reading the newspaper The stranger stepped into the and inquired of Henry whether he I the brig Henry said he would cheerfully paw vrith her At what price the peace price Stage is Mr the driver We will ride the Mitl Henry and on the go along Henry soon emerged from hastened to Mr look Mary I have drawn another price Not another 1 Yes and a large one I have brig for twenty thousand Foston and I te be in
