Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Farmer's Guide, or a Treatise on the Improvement of Wheat: Designed to Instruct the Farmer in Selecting His Seed, Increasing Its Fertility, Preventing Its Degenerating, or Restoring Its Former Vigor if It "Runs Out"
The degeneracy of our soil and the best strength and fertility of our seed should admonish every farmer that something should be done to strengthen our Seed and Improve our Land!
If I shall succeed in arousing the energies of the farmer to act on this subject, the importance of which is desirable, I shall feel that I have done something for the benefit of the tillers of the soil and for amelioration of the condition of our race, while I am called upon to pay the debt of nature.
In Western New York, formerly one of the best wheat growing sections in the United States, when the soil was rich and the seed strong, Gen. Mills, of Mt. Morris, Livingston Co., raised 47 11-60 bushels of wheat per acre on 80 acres of land; Simon McKinzie, of Caledonia, same county, raised 50 bushels per acre; Capt. Scott, of Covington, Wyoming Co., raised 50 bushels per acre. True, these were extreme cases, but 30, 35 and 40 bushels per acre were not uncommon. Even at a later day, about 1850, Wm. Hotchkiss, of Lewiston, Niagara Co., raised 631/2 bushels per acre on 63/4 acres of land; Samuel L. Thompson, of Setauket. L. I., raised 42 bushels and 10 quarts by measure, or 44 bushels and 24 quarts by weight per acre; Justus White, of Parmelia, Jeff. Co., N. Y., raised 40 bushels and 2 pecks per acre. These were premium crops, but even much better crops were raised then than we get now.
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