The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-09
SEEDING RIGHT IS
HALF The CROP
IMPORTANCE OF INTEILIuENT
WORK PUT BEFORE FARMERS.
Thornton Of Duluth Outlines the Price
Situation and the Crop Possibilities
This Season In Durum Wheat, Flax
and Barley-Good Profit In Barley If
Carefully Watched aud Properly
Handled at Harvest Time.
Special to The journal.

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Duluth, Mimi, April e.-Charlea H.
cial Record Of Duluth, has addressed
an article IN "Seeding Problems" to
the farmers Of the northwest. It deals
with durum or macaroni wheat, fax and
barley, and says:
NAmong growers of grain in the
three northwestern states the question
OF durum (macaroni) wheat undoubted-
y e e?Th;s IN interest all others.
It's future as a dependable, proft-grow.
Ing cereal, based upon its real worth
as q staple product for the northwest.
ern farmer. Is still to be demonstrated.
What is IT WORTH What is the real
truth as to it's milling value9 How
much more will it yield per acre than
n1e or bluestem9 What are the export
e ets. this coming fall and winter
1.-The well-known facts about durum
wheat are that it was imported and
fostered by, the United States agricul-
tural department for semi-arid regions
Of the Dakotas and other western
states, blu that it will grow and pro:
duce q good yield in sections Of normal
OF abundant rainfall was evidenced by
favored by a rainfall more than nor.
NAL. ;
What the final result of continued
soW1ngs IN sections Of excessive rain.
fall and its bearing on the quality of
durum would be has not yet been dem
onstrated, but that heavy soil and ex-
cesslve rains are injurious and deterior-
astlng in their effects, to a certain extent,
IS without question. Its a%daptability
for such sections and under such condi-
lions has never been advocated by the
agricultural department. There is some
question about the foreigners desires
strongly emphasized that they do not
want anything poorer than No. 2, and
would not have taken anything but No.
1 this year, could enough Of it have
been furnished. Practically all Of the
ddurum received at Duluth has been sold
Tor export, and the remarkable feature
or 1t, at the present time, is that durum
wheat at the seaboard is selling for ex-
port prices better than can be obtained
Tor spring wheat in the same position.
and is in good demand.
Causes contributing to the extraordi-
nary demand are hard to analyze. It
vas SAID to be, due to a shortage of
RUSSIAN Wheats Of the same quality, but
this a hardly hold good, as Russia has
been a very large shipper Of wheat ever
since last August.
1t was also assumed that It was be-
Ing used exclusively for making maca-
ROM, because of the fact that the Medi-
Of it. "'oi'
Whatever the reason for the de-
mand, it seems likelysthat It will CON
tinue. On March 2 the price of Rms
sian wheats and durum was identicallv
tn the same in Eurbpean markets, 95 to
20 cents per bushel. HNDurum has come
to stay, and must BE reckoned with
cr v1eal oe IN among ,eur permanent wheat
HThe only SUGGESTION tbat s. ur,,.
would make is that when seeded i; mra aee'
tions enjoying the average rainfau ~
twenty to thirty inches it shouId he
put on the, lightest soil to be found. on
lands. ~"
Flaxseed.
m0wing to low prices prevailing last
fall there seems to be a tendency F. ont
1T out, and this the writer beIievas 9
mistake. q
III comparatively low prices at
winch the last crop was marketed were
not Y to the size of the crop itself,
but to the fact that the accumulate
reserves carried forward from the LARGO
crops of 1902 and 1903, which had haen
artlhclally held off the market. were re-.
leased, and did more than anythinr e1se
TO- depress the price. These reserves
VAIN the crop Of 1905, amounted H.
about l0,000,000 bushels more than the
country 8 annual consumption, but with
export sales and an enlarged domestic
uenlano the entire load has been well
absorbed and by the time we can har.
VoSC hn0fhQr orons mill h. ---AaT- :,
out Of the way. WA
1.-The worlds situation on flax is verv
strong. stronger than at any time since
it weak. An"As
Europe IS principal sources Of SUNNY
argentine and India, are both short IN
their crops; Argentine, with a short
age OF 70 per cent compared with 1903
and with barley so per cent Of the cror
OF l9O4; the Indian crop is Just being
harvested, and it is known that The
drought at seeding time worked mate
rial damage to9the crop.
Aside from the foreign situation
the domestic outlook, of itself, is strong
Consumption is increasing amateriaIfy
every year, and last years erop Womb
have been barely sufficient to supply
domestic demands. It will be remem.
bered that the crop Of 1905 was excep.
tlonal in its large average yield be,
acre, and 1t does not seem possible
that its average yield can be dupli.
Gated this year The area in 1908 Was
much more than it-zwould have been
were It not that the spring season was
50: exceptionally favorable to a large
area OF everything. With the rapid
settlement Of the Tar western part OF
North Dakota, the large new break.
lngs of the past three or four years
are no longer available for flax. and
the trade will hereafter depend on the
product raised from smaller felds-the
twenty, forty OF e~ighty-acre fields Of
scattered farms.
lit is q well recognized fact that