Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1909-10-29
At THE COLLEGE FARM
What is Being Done i'm Agricultural
Matters at Washington's Big
gest School

There has been an unusual amount
of work done at the college farm in
the past few weeks. The big crop
OF corn has all been harvested and
two silos filled, while a large amount
Of corn is waiting to be cut up as soon
rs the third silo is completed. The
work on this will probably be finished
In few days and a week will be re-
quired for it to dry, after which il
Will be filled with corn for silage.
making 300 tons of that feed put UP
Tor the stock on the farm this win
ter and next spring. The corn crop
was good and in addition to produc-
ing a lot of fine seed corn which will
be distributed among farmers of
| Washington next year the farm pro-
iuced enough silage corn to feed the
great herd of cattle for many months.
1t will be necessary to wet down
the last silo full of feed because the
season is so late that the corn has be-
come completely dried out. This de-
lay is due to the failure of Contractor
Dysart to get sand to complete the
Isilo
The grain has all been harvested
About 600 bushels of hybrid wheats
were sold for seed to farmers of
Washington, and the remainder will
be fed to stock on the farm The
College farm produced S5 acres of
splendid wheat this year, but a por-
lion of it was grown on the new farm
bought last year which is quite foul
yet and this wheat was not deemed
fit for seed. The standard hybrids
produced by the college have become
so firmly fixed and are being so ex-
.tensively grown by farmers that the
college farm will cease to raise these
hybrids for sale for seed, but will al
low the people who want seed wheat
to get it from the farmers who are
raising it. "A large acreage of these
standard hybrids have been sold to
farmers who have good clean land,
and they will be enabled to supply
the demand for seed. We will de-
vote our experimental work to pro-
Dagating new varieties or increasing
the output of some of the newer var
ieties produced in more recent years
v
Ito acre plots of new hybrids which
will be carefully watched and if some
good wheats are produced in these the
best varieties will be replanted in
larger fields and produced in suffi-
cient quantities to supply the coun-
try with seed" said Professor George
Severance.
The college farm had some excel
Ilent yields of grain this year but these
have not been weighed yet, so the
exact yield cannot be determined,
but it is certain that the oats yield
ed phenomenally c. W. Lawrence,
the college cerealist, had secured a
new variety of oats known as Sixty
Day Oats" which are supposed to ma
ture in sixty days from the time of
planting. These yielded about 80
bushels per acre, Other varieties
went well over 100 bushels per acre
despite the fact that there was some
loss due to the oats falling down dur
ing the heavy rains of July.
The college farm will be devoted
more to raising feed for stock next
year than to raising grain. There
is so much stock on the farm now
that it will require much land to
produce feed enough for these dur
ing the entire year. The farm will
be divided into fields and pastures
and different kinds Of feed raised for
the cattle. sheep, horses and hogs
kept on the farm, and experiments to
ascertain the best feeds to raise for
the various kinds of stock and for
the various seasons of the year will
be made and the knowledge thus
gained will be given out to the pub
lie in popular bulletins. Professors
Thatcher and Severance are now
working on a popular bulletin which
will tell all about the college farm
what it produces; the results of var
lious experiments in grain, livestock,
| fruit. grasses, etc, and this will be
distributed among the farmers, stock
men and fruit growers of the state for
| their guidance. The big farm of 500
acres has never been in as good con
! 1ition as at the present and with the
large amount of livestock now on the
farm il is in a position TO give some
valuable demonstration work that Is
certain TO prove beneficial to the ag-
rjcultural interests of the state