East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-08-27

THAT the Washington State college
experiments station has propagated
new varieties of wheat which are
proving of excellent quality, yield well
and are, in fact, almost ideal wheats
for this section, seems certain, says a
Pullman item. After many years of
patient work, started by Professor w.
j. Spillman, now with the department
of agriculture at Washington, d. c.,
and followed by his successor, as
head of the college experiment sta
ton, Professor e. E. Elliott, these
new varieties of wheat have been
perfected and are produced in suffi-
cient quantities to seed vast areas.
Professor Elliott distributed some
of the seed among a lot of the best !
farmers, trying to get some of it in
every neighborhood that could be
reached and requesting that the grain
be carefully watched and reports sent
in showing what had been accom-
plished. These reports are coming
in and almost every one shows splen-
did results.
Hybrid Best Wheat Grown,
C. A. Price, a grain dealer Of Pull
man, who has a fine farm near town,
said: my hybrid wheat has yielded
we'll and is of excellent quality. Il
I believe 1t will prove one of the best
grains ever grown here. have been
urging that not a bushel of this
wheat be sold for export, but that IL
all be used for seed. II the WASH
ington State college had accomplish
ed nothing else but produce these
improved varieties of wheat 1t would
prove a financial blessing to the state
and the entire northwest"
C. B. Kegley, master of the Wash
ington State grange, said: my hy-
brid wheat averaged a little more
than 40 bushels per acre. My red
Russian averaged 25 bushels. The
two fields join, the soil is the same,
the ground was cultivated in the
same way, and sown at the same
time. the seeder going from one field
to the other part of both being
planted the same day. The hybrid
wheat is worth from to to 4 cents
per bushel more than the red Rus
sian. With an increase OF 40 per
cent in the YIELD and 2 to cents ad-
dtional on the price, further COM
ment seems unnecessary. 1t costs no
more to raise an acre of one than Of
the other"
Gets Applications for Seed.
A. ]. d. Cornelius of Colfax writes:
'I am much pleased with my hybrid
wheat. We have not threshed it yet,
but It promises so well that 1 have
had more than 20 applications for
some of the seed Will let you know
more when 1t is threshed"
]. A. Fontaine, Dayton, writes:
"The wheat did well this season, de-
spite the dry weather"
]. ]. May, Whelan, writes: Wheat
is not yet threshed, but we expect 40
bushels per acre. All my neighbors
want seed from It,"
Andy Meal near Pullman, writes;
"I threshed my wheat today. The
new variety, known as NO. 123,'
yielded 1917 sacks per acre. The
4O-fold grown on an adjoining field
and under exactly the same condi-
tions, yielded Is sacks per acre. l
am going to SOW all my summer-fal-
lowed land to this wheat this fall"
Karl Gerhard, Hatton, Wash,
writes: "I threshed 13 sacks of wheat
from one sack Of seed got from you.
Owing to the hot weather and the
winds 1t shriveled some and did not
Weld as well as under favorable con-
ditions. this being a bad year. find
It does not shell out as easy as the
old kinds and the straw is strong.
Had we had normal weather condi-
tions am satisfied the yield would
have been large. I will sell none OF
the wheat as I want to sow 1t this
fall"
Schreck Gets 4O-Bushel Average.
M. e. Schreck of La Crosse had an
average of 40 bushels per acre from
the hybrid wheat and is enthusiastic
over it. A report of Mr.. Schreck's
Weld was. published in The Spokes-
man. Review from La Crosse, recent
ly.
Theo Stirewalt. Pullman, writes: Il
sowed 40 acres of No. 1913 wheat and
it was fine in every respect. I am
going to SOW all of my land to this
variety and the hybrid called No. 14S,
of which got one sack in the fall of
1907. 1 sowed this one sack on about
two acres and got 3Sh sacks Of wheat