The Greeley tribune. [volume] (Greeley, Colo.) 1870-1913, 1906-08-30
TURKEY RED
PROF. OLIN FAVORS 1T WHEN
SEEDING FALL WHEAT
Advice to Farmers From Agri-
cultural College Experiment
Station-Time to Act
Now

The most important grain crop
grown in Colorado lis wheat. This
year we have the best quality wheat
and the greatest yield Colorado has
had for many years. We have ap-
proximately 300. 900 acres in wheat
which will average very nearly 30
bushels per acre. Our best yielding
wheat is generally winter wheat.
and it also is very desirable mill
ing type because of it's hardness and
white quality, fine grain flour.
Millers tell me they prefer winter
wheat for milling to all other types
and many millers are paying ten
cents hundred premium as an in
ducement for farmers to grow 1t.
The hardest and best milling type
of winter wheat we have tested for
Colorado conditions is Turkey Red.
We have found considerable difficulty
in obtaining a pure strain OF this
wheat. To satisfy The demand for
pure seed Turkey Red wheat II. j.
Miller of Fort Collins procured the
best quality seed obtainable in Ne
braska, and threshing early, has
famed this wheat thoroughly, re-
moving weed seeds and understood
grain kernels. He is willing to sell
this seed at fly cents above market
price for milling wheat, to such
farmers as desire good pure Turkey
Red seed wheat. 1t was grown on
sod ground above the ditch.
The Weld county assessor says
Boyd Wolf of Num- had the finest
field of wheat grown in his county.
1t was Turkey Red wheat grown
above the ditch on ground which he
had given thorough summer culture
the summer before. He pulled out
impure wheat before harvesting and
after threshing famed his grain,
giving a fine quality seed for sowing.
Like Mr.. Miller he simply asks fifty
cents per hundred above market price
for milling wheat, to pay for extra
work In cleaning and preparing this
seed grain for early sowing.
Fl. S. Youtsy of Fort Collins also
has seed wheat now ready and other
cooperators of the agronomy depart
mert of the Colorado experiment sta
tion will have Turkey Red wheat for
seed in a few weeks.
Because this wheat can be grown
on a considerable area of land above
the ditch in favorable years, pro-
vided the seed is procured from
farmers growing it under similar en-
vfronment, because it produces fine
quality flour, enabling our millers to
maintain the reputation of our Colo
RADIO mills, because each year Colo
RADIO millers ship in thousands of
bushels Of milling wheat from ad-
joining states at considerable expense
and because Turkey Red winter
wheat has shown conclusively that it
can be grown satisfactorily in the
Arkansas valley, northern Colorado
and in many valleys on the western
slope, we would earnestly urge
wheat farmers IN our state to in
crease the acreage of this good wheat.
The ground gives best results when
spring plowed and given summer Gull
uure treatment. This prepares
seed bed which readily absorbs mois-
ture and, If an earth mulch is main
tanned, will greatly lessen the evap.
grafton, retaining the water in the
soil reservoir for the plants need.
The yield of wheat is of course in
creased when grown under irrigation
and, so far, its quality does not seem
to be seriously impaired.
This wheat should be seeded with
a good grain drill OH ground we'll
tirmed and worked down so it will
not be so readily and easily dried
out. In case the ground has not
been given summer culture, it should
be early fall plowed, disked thor
oughly, planked or leveled and
smooth narrowed to maintain the
earth mulch.
While winter wheat has been
known to make a crop seeded SO late
in the fall that the seed did not
sprout until the following spring,
yet it is always desirable to seed
sufficiently early for the grain to get
good start before winter sets it.
We are firmly convinced that late
September or early October seeding
is preferable to late October or early
November seeding
use good quality seed; it is one Of
the best investments which you can
make. Keep this seed pure so you
will have seed grain for yourself and