The Elbert County tribune., 1907-10-17
Tips for Live Farmers.

(From Farm and Field.)
The question has frequently been
raised as to whether cookie can be en-
tirely and completely separated from
wheat by any kind of tanning mill that
has yet been introduced. 1t is at least
questionable if any tanning mill will
certainly and assuredly take all the
cookie out without causing SO much
Of the crop to be blown over the sieves
that the operation would not be COM
pletely satisfactory. But clean seed
can be obtained in another way. The
,armer can sow an acre or two for
seed and handpick the cookie out of
I when 1t is in bloom. In this way
clean seed will be secured. If the seed
from year to year is from the wheat
thus grown. the fields will soon be free
from cookie burs. OF course, with the
tanning mill alone cookie may be re
duced to a small amount, but it is
questionable if every grain can be re-
moved and a watch over the field will
have to be kept up just the same.
In the hurly-burly of sugar beet har-
rest which is now upon us with all
ts perplexing exigencies and innumer
able annoyances incident upon the at
itude of the factory managers, the
shortage of labor, the scarcity of cars
and the possibility of bad roads. the
whole subject becomes one of grave
moment. The factory people have
packed up on their silo clause and
show a disposition to act mean about
t. They maintain that the growers
,an plow the beets out during bad
weather and silo them before the
roads are passable for loaded wagons,
put this is hardly true. They sug-
yest that the growers could put their
whole force upon the pIowing and top
ping and do the hauling at more con
1enient season. 1t is worse than use
ess to plow faster than the beets can
De topped and 1t is utterly impossible
% much increase the number of top
)ers. So there we have the whole
problem in a nutshell. Then the fac
ory will not receive frozen beets and
,ven if the growers had them in silos
md freezing weather should come on
md continue as It does some years
rom November to March or even
April, what good would it do the
growers or any one else?
Some of the Western Slope farmers
Who would like to grow winter wheat
ire undecided about the variety to
idopt. The dry farmers on the plains
Ind in the foothills east of the noun
aims have for twenty years been meet
ng with all kinds of success with the
turkey red and its close counsin, the
ed cross, and without irrigation have
aiken off more than seventy bushels
% the acre in different field trials from
zach of these varieties. The West.
irn Slopers are inclined to adopt the
Utah idea which favors the Koffoid,
which was propagated from some un-
tnown variety taken into the country
,y the earliest Mormons The acre
ige yield of this wheat is given as
wenty-eight bushels to the acre. with
ample patches running up to thirty
light bushels. 1t is seeded four inches
ieep, forty-fiye pounds to the acre in
he fortnight between the 1st and 18th
If October. but for the higher alti-
ndes of Colorado we would advise
lowing two or three weeks earlier for
iivers reasons. One OF the predomi-
lat qualities in the Koffoid is that the
grain will not shell out, no matter
low ripe 1t may be aor how roughly
handled. Another very good Utah fall
yrain is the Gold Coin, but taken all
lround, we would prefer the Koffoid
Is second to the turkey red, SO popa-
ar in this country.