The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1909-08-13
Procuring Seed Grain.

neapo!is paper August End an
nouncing the sale in that market
of a carload of new wheat from
South Dakota. 1t proved to be
winter wheat shipped from be-
tween Canton and Sioux Falls
and tested 61a pounds to the
! bushel. 1t seems a pity that
with the demand there is in this
state for superior seed grains.
and particularly for winter
wheat west of the river, this ex-
cellent quality of native grown
grain should be shipped from
the state. Experiences with
winter wheat in this state have
varied materially in different
seasons. Some have had re-
markable success, while others
have met with failure. Doubt
less most of the failures have re-
suited from not sowing early
enough in the fall to permit the
wheat to get good top and
root development before winter
sets in. Winter wheat in this
state should be sown not later
than September 10th, normal
seasons, and if it gets too heavy
a top. so as to endanger smoth-
ering, should be grazed off with
brood sows or light cattle, when
the ground is perfectly dry or
after freezing. twill, however,
seldom need grazing.
The special object of this arti-
Gle, however, is to call attention
OF the farmers to the Importance
of procuring the best possible
seed grains while it is most cas-
lily done. In nearly every COM
munity some farmer has a
superior quality of oats, barley,
wheat, flax, etc. He will almost
always be willing to sell this to
his neighbors at his granary at
what he could get for it in town.
In buying it the neighbor farmer
knows whether or not it is free
from foul seeds. Large sections
of this state have been seeded
with mustard, morning glories,
tockle-bur, quack grass, and
other foul weeds by sending
away to a distance for seeds.
4 The farmer who had early vari-
eties of oats and barley, and
sowed them early in good seed
bed, escaped the recent hail
storms, or at least had his grain
in shock. His neighbor who
sowed late varieties or these
grains lost his crop. Almost
every summer about harvest
time, or during it, sections of the
state are visited by hail. The
cheapest insurance we know of,
or rather partial insurance, is
sowing early varieties. Winter
wheat, winter rye, or spring
rye, sown early, early varieties
OF oats and barley, speltz sown
early on we'll drained land can
nearly always be matured before
disastrous hail season, and
suffers very little damage if we'll
shocked. These early varieties
almost invariably give the best
returns in this state. In seven
years experiments at the Col
lege, early oats gave an average
yield of twenty bushels to the
acre more than any of the later
varieties. These were the Lin
colin oats, also known as Kereon.
Sixty Day, Early Russian and by
some other names. There are
some of these grown in nearly
every community. Why not
procure seed of these different
kinds of grain now while it can
be done cheaper than it can be
later? If some slick stranger
were to come along offering you
q wonderful oat with a big name,
million Dollar) that would ma
ture early and yield twenty
bushels to the acre more than
the later varieties, many farm
ers would pay SIS a bushel for
some seed. Some neighbor of
yours has just such variety of
oats. Why not deal with him?
There is also great difference
in the quality of wheat grown by
different farmers. If yours is
not the best, just own up to it.
and go to your neighbor and get
something that is better.
If you have some good seed of
some especially good variety, be
neighborly enough to try and
get it used in your community
without charging two or three
prices for it. You can well af.
ford to sell it to your neighbol
for the same price it would BRING
! at the elevator. We hope farm.
, ers will take hold of this matte,