Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1902-03-06
B seed GRAIN
Wheat and Oats Which
Have Been Tried and
Proven Good.
Macaroni Wheat Sixty DAY,
Tobolsk and Swedish
Select Oats.

The South Dakota Experimental
Station has received a quantity of Iaca-
roni wheat from the U. S. department
of agriculture. This wheat will be sold
TO the farmers of South Dakota at 81. %
per bushel. The proceeds of the sale 10
be used in carrying on cooperative
experiments with cereals. Not less
than two (2) nor more than ten (10)
bushels will be sold to any one party
and it will be furnished to those parties
only who will agree to raise and grow it
under proper conditions to assure its
being kept pure. The United States
department of agriculture has already
gone 10 a great deal of expense i'll investi-
eating the Macaroni industry and the
raising of Macaroni wheats in this and
in foreign countries and the Availability
of various foreign wheats to our soils
and climatic conditions. Every effort
has been made to obtain only those
varieties that are likely to prove adapted
to cur conditions. Precautions have
been taken TO secure seed as pure and
free from foul seeds as possible. 1t is
believed that a foreign market has been
secured for all the surplus that can be
raised for some years TO come and it is
certain that there will be an extensive
home demand. The department of
agriculture and the experiment station
will endaavor 10 protect the co-operators
and TO assist them in disposing of their
product to the best advantage. 1t should
be distinctly understood, however, that
no guarantee is given with the seed fur
nished except such as is involved in the
fact that the Hon. James Wilson, Sec
rotary of Agriculture: b. T. Galloway,
Chief of the Bureau of Plant Industry;
A. +. Woods, Pathologist Psychologist;
NJ. A. Carleton, Cerealist; Professor w.
NJ. Hays, Special Agent for the North
western states; and the authorities of
South Dakota experiment station,
belive that this industry is one well
worthy of the careful consideration of
South Dakota farmers and have adopted
this means of assisting them to develop
it.
Farmers of the state desiring TO
c cooperate in this matter should CORES
pond with Z. G. Chilcott, Agriculturist
of the South Dakota experiment station.
The yields of Macaronia wheat at the
experiment station for last year ranged
from II bushels TO 26 bushels per ecre,
while the ordinary bread wheats raised
under the same conditions yielded from
So to - bushels per acre. 1t is not
believed, however, that there would be
as much difference in the yields between
the bread and Macaroni wheats in an
ordinary season as there was last season.
The fact that the Macaroni wheats
ripened earlier enabled them to escape
the hot weather that so seriously dam
aged the bread wheats.
The station also has three varieties OF
oats that have been raised on the col
lege farm for several years and have
proved superior to any other varieties
yet tried. They are:-"Sixty day OATS"
sTobolsk" and Swedish Select" The
''Sixty Day oats YVES the earliest
ripening last year about twelve days
sooner than any other and before the
hot winds had injured them seriously,
yielding 81 bushels per acre.
The "Tobolsk" yielded 81 bushels per
acre, and the Swedish Select yielded
80 bushels per acre. The hot weather
undoubtedly reduced the yield consider
ably as the general crop of oats in this
locality was seriously injured.
These oats are offered for sale at IS
cents a bushel. Good seamless sacks
will be furnished at 20 cents zach unless
purchasers desire to furnish their own
sacks.
! Many inquiries are being received
concerding Bromus Inermis, Siberian
Millet, Alfalfa and Minnesota No. Is
seed corn. The station has none of
these seeds for sale, having exhausted
its entire stock some time ago.
Parties desiring TO obtain any of the
above seeds should write at once TO Z.
G.. Chileott. Brookings. South Dakota