Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1883-10-20

paratively few farmers who will take
the trouble or risk Of importing seed
every year, or even every few years.
Practically, do not consider the
suggestion of much real value to the
mass of our wheat growers, but / throw
it out for the benefit of the few who
may test it and possibly find it prof
liable. g p" 49, =
WEI have several varieties among the
best of which we would place the
Boughton and the Champion amber.
The former is beautiful wheat, beard.
less and white, making the very best
quality Of -four, and when escaping
disasters it produces more abundantly
than almost any other variety. While
a thrifty grower, it cannot be consider.
ed hardy. In localities. which are
favorable to the development of the
rust germ, / would recommend the
selection of some other seed, such as
the Champion amber, which seems to
be harder variety, and for this part
of the state is more reliable. This last
is a bearded wheat and is probably a
simple modification of the old long
berried Mediterranean. 1t resists the
rust and other enemies better than any
grown in this part of the State. While
it does not yield so abundantaly as the
Boughton under con litions most favor>
able to the latter, it will in the course
of ten years give probably "a larger
average. 4l q. aum- $3.50 loi@
Two other varieties have given good
results at the experiment station, the
old Keys Prolific, which / presume is
known to all Tennesseans, and a more
recent development which is also called
a champion amber, 1t is bald varie-
~, much lighter in color than the
bearded amber, and it is thought by
some to be hybrid from the old cele,
brated Mediterranean. If it should
prove to combine the hardness of the
old amber with the abundant produc-
ton and superior plant of the Boughton,
it will prove indeed an acquisition.
| We have found occasional excellencies
in a few other varieties, but not so
constant as to claim the attention Of
the farmers of the state.
FERm LIKING.
1t is contended by many intelligent
writers and practical farmers that il
does no good to apply fertilizers direct
ly to wheat. They say the manure
must be digested by some other plan,
and thus prepared for wheat. l pre-
sumo from this that such writer's mean
to say that the mineral fertilizers are
of no value to wheat, though their Ian
guage seems to include all commercial
fertilizers and compost. cannot en-
ter into this discussion here, I vii
simply say that Laws & Gilbert, O.
Rothamsted, England, report good re
suits from some superphosphates with
out any ammonia, and fair results from
South Carolina bone. Our bes
: result at the experiment station, supe
rior to stable manure and all Others
came from silicated phosphate.
This gave nearly thirty-three (33
, bushels per acre, where the best yielc
from other fertilizers was only abou
! twenty-eight bushels. l should her
utter this caution, that this is the re
, srlt of only one years trial, and w
, must not rely on conclusions drawn
+ from one, two or three years expert
! ments.
! With the same caution before us
will state that the best brand of CON
I mercial fertilizers gave from twent
=, to twenty-five bushels on land simila
i. to that which, when unfertilized, vie
3 ded only fourteen and one-balf bushels
t The difference in yield would NOR
r than pay for the fertilizer used or tn
e cost Of placing it. Other seasons nc
q so favorable to the use of fertilizers her
J, have ended in yields very slightly
: favor Of fertilizers, the cost of whic
. was therefore almost a complete lo'
i in the summing of that years results
D Still the land was much improved, an
!. it was a question whether the flint
OF, ~, N, t.or mould Eovo. or dico0uron