Alexandria Daily Gazette, Commercial & Political

For the Federal Gazette.

TO FARMERS.

The following method is recommended to preserve Wheat for years from the fly, that prevails more or less every year, in Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware and New-Jersey, and more particularly on the bays, rivers and adjacent country.

Get your wheat out of the straw as early as you possibly can, clean the straw well from the chaff and wheat; if you have a barn put your wheat away in bulk leaving the chaff with it, I knew wheat kept several years during the revolutionary War, in this way, free from all insects; rats and mice cannot burrow in this bank, as it will continually fall on them.

Those that have not barns, may make pens with logs, or fence rails, first laying logs or rails on the earth sufficient to keep the damp from rising to injure the wheat, then cover the floor twelve or eighteen inches thick with straw, well trod down, put your wheat on this floor with all its chaff, and as you fill the pen line the inside well with straw; when you have filled your pen in this way, stack your straw on the top of it, seeing that the straw extends well over the top of the pen to carry off the rain water.

E. K.