The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-09-29

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49, aAD GARDEN
VARIETIES OF E

A Number Of Interesting Notes For
Enterpri.ing Growers.
The winter wheats Of the United
States can well be put into three dis
tipct classes. The white, soft wheats
are most successfully grown in Oregon
and Washington, and in the leading
apple growing regions Of the middle
ATTITUDES. The semihard wheats arctic
be found between Oklahoma and Ne
braska in the west and Canada and
North Carolina in the east. The very
hard fiinty grained winter wheats,
known as durums, are being success
fully grown in Texas.
There Is an immediate and pressing
demand in Oklahoma and northwest
ern Texas, as well as in southern ILL
nois, Indiana and southwestern Ken
lucky, for a semihard red wheat that
Is of a hardy, drought resistant charac-
ter that will resist the orange leaf rust
(Uredo rublgo vera. Wheat Of this
class is perfectly adapted to the roller
mill process of flourmaking, which
has now been SO generally adopted by
millers.
The Turkey Red, a semihard wheat
nov so exceedingly grown In Kansas,
is an exceedingly valuable variety. The
Budapest, now grown In Michigan, cnn
be very properly put in the same class.
The varieties of the drums, or mac.
aroni, wheats are less known. One va
riety now grown in Texas Is the Mica
ragua hard. This. lis classed as one Of
the very few rust proof wheats that
have been successfully grown in the
south, where the rust almost invarln-
bly, ruins the crop. 1t Is Il heavily
bearded wheat and can be sown In cen
trail Texas not only IN October. but In
the following February. thus giving
the grower a double advantage in sc.
curing a crop. So far as known, the
old fashioned red bearded Mediter-
ranean Is still one among the most re-
liable varieties for general cultivation
in the southern states, but intermix.
ture with other varieties now renders
it almost impossible to obtain a sup.
ply for seeding purposes. 1t was by fur
the most valuable Of the great number
Of varieties yet imported and u variety
least subject to the attacks of the
wheat weevil.
Among the varieties that may very
properly be classed with the medium
hard red wheats which can be profit.
ably grown in all the dent corn grow.
ing regions. the Fultz, which was orig.
mated in Pennsylvania. takes the lead.
r1..All At,> %i,,,o <ho ooAI nf thtS vu tsinfv
had become too much deteriorated by
intermixture with other varieties 1t was
regarded by the wheat growers of the
United States much In the same light
as was the Wilson's Albany by the
strawberry grower, the Concord by the
grape grower and the Baldwin or New
ton Pippin by the apple orchardist.
Another variety Of wheat, the Mealy,
which the writer Of these notes discov.
cred in southern Virginia, when chief
of the seed division Of the United
| States department Of agriculture, Is an.
other wheat of q similar character, but
which, like the Fultz, Is rapidly losing
many Of It's desirable qualities by be-
ing mixed with other more common
varieties. When the originator OF 1t
took it to the country mill, the miller
refused to grind It on account OF the
extreme hardness Of the grain. This
variety has been well tested at the
| Ohio experiment station and Is highly
recommended.
Where the winter wheat was killed
by the extreme cold weather last Feb
ruary, In the winter wheat growing
countries In northern Ohio. Indiana
and southern Michigan, the Turkey
Red wheat should be substituted fol
the less hardy varieties.
More and better work IN the line OF
introducing improved pedigreed seed OF
the leading farm crops is a need Of the
hour, since it will surely lead to q
greatly increased yield and thereby
promote the general prosperity Of the
farming community. That enterpris
ing wheat growers want better seet
wheat Is shown by the fact that they
frequently pay from SD to S. q bushe
for some presumably new variety which
in too many cases proves to be no bet
ter than the ones heretofore grown. II
has been we'll stated that ut is the rec
ognIzed province Of the experiment sta
ton In each state to determine whn'
varieties Of the different grain crop'
are best adapted to particular local.
ties in the state; for II they are not IN
formed on the subject others are no
likely to be-" concludes the author o.
these valuable notes In Farm INT Fire
side.
Harvesting and storing Horse Rad
ish.
Since horse radish makes Its bes
growth during the cool autumn months
since 1t steadily improves In qualit!
after September, and since the roots
lf still In the ground, are not injured
by frost, the digging 10 usually defer
red until late fall, or at least until tn
more tender crops are oil attended tC