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Domestic News
October 6, 1830
Virginia Free Press & Farmers' Repository
Charles Town, Jefferson County, West Virginia
What is this article about?
Mr. Adonijah Alden, a farmer in this county, discovered through experiments that wheat smut originates from small shrivelled kernels. Washing one part and screening another showed no smut in screened wheat, a method successfully tried by others. (From Bradford, Pa. Settler.)
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Smut in the Wheat.--A discovery has been made by Mr. Adonijah Alden, a respectable farmer of this county, which we think may be important to farmers, and therefore give it publicity. Mr. Alden gives it as his opinion from experiments he has made, that smut is produced from small shrivelled kernels of wheat. He made the discovery by washing one part and screening the other part of the wheat he sowed in the same field, and by sowing each part by itself. On that part of the field with washed wheat, there was smut, and on that part sown with screened wheat there was none. At the suggestion, the same experiment has been successfully tried by others.
[Bradford (Pa.) Settler.]
[Bradford (Pa.) Settler.]
What sub-type of article is it?
Agriculture
What keywords are associated?
Wheat Smut
Farming Experiment
Adonijah Alden
What entities or persons were involved?
Mr. Adonijah Alden
Where did it happen?
This County
Domestic News Details
Primary Location
This County
Key Persons
Mr. Adonijah Alden
Outcome
the experiment showed smut in washed wheat but none in screened wheat; successfully replicated by others.
Event Details
Mr. Alden experimented by washing one part of wheat and screening another before sowing in the same field separately. He concluded smut comes from small shrivelled kernels.