Daily National Intelligencer

WHEAT.

FOR THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.

The fly has been so injurious to wheat in this neighborhood, that I was gratified to hear a species of wheat was cultivated in Fauquier county, to which it did no injury. I had concluded to send there immediately to secure seed for the next season; but on enquiry from a farmer from Virginia yesterday, he informed me, that in his neighborhood it was called Blue Stem, although he had heard it called Lawler, Saddle bags, &c. and, by his description, it is the same wheat which, in Maryland, is called Blue Straw.

If this be the fact, any one who passes on the Fredericktown road, by stepping into a field of Mr. Threlkeld's, three and an half miles from Georgetown, may assure himself that it is as liable to injury from the fly as any other wheat. I have hardly noticed a field more injured, or one where the nits were larger and more numerous on the stems. This, I am told is the fact, where it is sown in the same field with the common Red Chaff Bearded wheat, on several farms in the neighborhood.

The Blue Straw wheat is a very good grain, and desirable to the cultivator as a change, but is not considered so productive as the Red Chaff, either in grain or straw.

If the Blue Straw and the Lawler wheat are the same, its exemption from injury by the fly in Fauquier must arise from some peculiarity of soil or situation, and not from one inherent in the straw or grain. If the Lawler is a different kind of wheat, the public will be indebted to any one who will describe it, so that it may be distinguished.

B.

Montgomery county, June 24.