The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-08-25
PRESS BULLETIN
Issued by the Ohio Agricultural
Experiment Station at
Wooster.

Thirty-three varieties Of wheat have
been grown side by side at the Ohio Ex-
pertinent Station for seven years. One
of these varieties, Penpuite's Velvet
Chaff has been grown on thirty differ
ent plots, scattered regularly through
out the test, and the yield of the other
sorts is compared with that of the near
est plots of Velvet Chaff. The average
yield Of the thirty plots of Velvet Chaff
for the seven years has been twenty
bushels per acre ranging from less than
ten bushels in 1896 to nearly twenty
bushels in 1898.
Pool and Mealy have exceeded this
7-year average yield by four bushels
and more Early Ripe and Red Russian
have surpassed it by between three and
four bushels; Currells Prolific, Gypsy,
Mediterranean and Niger by between
three and four bushels; Bearded Mon
arch, Egyptian, New Monarch and Val
ley by between one and two bushels,
and Diet, Democrat, Fulcaster, Fultz
and Lebanon by less than one bushel.
Jones Square Head and Jones, Win
ter Fife have fallen below the yield of
the Velvet Chaff by between two and
three bushels per acre; Early Red
New Golden, Silver Chaff and Yellow
Gypsey by between one and two bushels
and Early White Leader, Hickman,
Missouri Blue Stem and Rudy by less
than one bushel.
The Velvet Chaff reached it's lowest
yield in 1895 and 1896. In both these sea-
80 plots being Hap bushels for 1895 and
9S5 bushels for 1896. In both these sea-
sons Bearded Monarch, Dietz, Demo-
crat, Fulcaster and Fultz fell below
Velvet Chaff in yield; Poole and Red
Russian gave practically the same
yield as Velvet Chaff in 1895, with a
small increase in 1896; Gypsy, Mealy,
Mediterranean and New Monarch kept
above the yield of Velvet Chaff during
both these seasons, by a margin of from
three pecks to three bushels per acre,
while all the other sorts fell below 1t
during one season or other.
High water mark in this experiment
was reached in the crops of 1893, 1897
and 1898, Velvet Chaff yielding 26.72,
27.32 and 2S.55 bushels per acre in the
tests of those seasons. In all these sea-
sons the yield of the Velvet Chaff was
exceeded by Currelps Prolific, Early
Ripe, Gypsy, Hindosan, Lehigh, Medi-
terranean, Missouri Blue Stem, Niger,
Poole and Red Russian, and in the last
two by Fultz also.
1t will be seen from these experiments
that it is not safe to pronounce judg-
ment either for or against a variety of
wheat on the basis of single seasons s
test especially If the season has been a
favorable one, unless the results of the
test have been exceptionally decisive.
The safest variety would seem to be the
one which has greatest strength to re-
sist the influences Of an unfavorable
season.
COMPARISON OF FERTILIZERS.
For three years the Ohio Experiment
Station has been carrying on field
test in which four different brands oi
factory-mixed fertilizers have beer
compared with mixtures of slaughter
house tankage, acid phosphate
and muriate Of potash, made up by the
station so as to carry as nearly al
possible the same percentage of nitro
gen, phosphoric acid and potash al
those claimed for the factory mixtures
The plan OF this test is to grow corn
wheat and clover In rotation, the ferti
lizers being applied to the corn and
wheat, The land is divided into thre'