Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1905-09-23
DuRUM AND BLUE STEM.
Reports from the Farmers 81 Send
in Your Report.

did it yield? How did it compare
with your blue stem? Will you
raise durum again?
These and similar questions, we
have been asking farmers for the
last day or two. We ask them be-
cause we know that durum is an
experiment in this county an we
wish the farmers themselves to now
what other farmers think of the sw
wheat. @
Ford Walker, who introduced
durum into this country, had 240
bushels of new wheat and got II
bushels to the acre. He raised no
blue stem himself, but ore forty
that he rented to Mr.. Busse was put
into blue stem and yielded 9 bushels
to the acre, altho it was summer
fallow land. Ford said he will SOW
durum again.
l.. C. Spooner, who had hundreds
of acres of durum wheat, tells us
that he has not definite returns ex-
cept on one eighty on his home farm
which went Is bushels to the acre.
He has not received returns from
his blue stem in Baker and Stevens
yet, but in general way, he is in
formed that durum goes about two
bushels to one of blue stem. He
expects to SOW it again
Mr.. Stebno raised 287O bushels
from los acres, an average of 27l
bushels to the acre of durum.
j. NJ. Burns got about 20 bushels
of durun to the acre, and he re-
ceives nearly twice per acre that he
did of blue stem.
James Lawler raised over 20 bush.
els of durum to the acre on the old
Heath farm west of town.
Charley Sax. in the town of Morris,
got 20 bushels of drum, and 6 or 7
of blue stem to the acre.
Mark Watson got Is bushels of du-
rum to the acre on his farm in Oar
men. E. P. Watson, on his farm got
II bushels of macaroni and Is of blue
stem. Mark is somewhat disappoint
ed with their experience with durum,
but would SOW il again if seed is not
too high. He has seen it produce
big crops in Sargent county, N. D.,
and believes in the new wheat for
certain sections and certain soils.
A. G. Peck got 32aa bushels OF dur
UNI to the acre on a piece of land
west of town.
FL. Z. Kaiser, in the town of Scott,
got over 20 bushels of macaroni, but
; only 9 of blue stem.
Anton Gaarder thrashed $500 bush
els of 'macaroni from $50 acres, about
FL bushels to the acre.
Justin Berkin got Is bushels to the
acre of blue stem on a portion of his
farm in Framnas that he thrashed
this week.
| Lysander Fushor got better than
20 bushels of durum on his farm in
the northwestern part of Morris.
Mike Mahoney, in Darnen, got
255 bushels of durum 10 the acre
and II bushels cf blue stem,
Fred Tomlin had six acres of
drum wheat from which he thrash
ed Isl bushels. He thinks he would
have done better with blue stem
! medically, Fred puts in word for
speI,z as the ideal feed to raise in
this country, He got 80 bushels to
the acre of it.
Capt. Calvin got over 20 bushels
O the acre of durum, but his blue
stem was poor.
Tom Ward, section 36 Synnes,
t',reshed between % and "a bushels
TO the acre of durum, and aboU'
half that of blue stem.
The object Of these reports is moi
to persuade farmers 10 raise ducum
wheat unless it is the pest wheat
for them to raise. We desire to
make these reports as true as poss
ible, and desire that every farmer
who can report on the new wheat do
50, whether his report be good or
bad.
Some of these reports come to us
Indirectly, We prefer to have them
directly.
Anton Watzke was presented with
handsome chair last evening by
Congregational friends, in apprecia-
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