Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1909-08-13
THE BEST HYBRID wHE 5lf s@'
Professor George ". Severance. of
Washington State College,
Gives Pointers

Gives Pointers
Owing to the damage done BY tho
heavy storm Of July 9th it seems
an opportune time to call the at-
ten,on of the farmers to several
facts regarding the College Hybrid
wheats that are being grown through
out the Palouso country. There are
several of these hybrids resembling
each other SO closely that the ma.
Jority of farmers class them all ae
one variety ana form their opinion
of College Hybrid" from the par
ucular field or fields that happen to
fall under their observation. This
leads to many wrong impressions
and it is these wrong impressions
hat we wish to correct Two by
brids being grown quite largely are
crosses between Turkey Red and
Little Club and are designated as
Nos. d3 and $50. These hybrids
nave taken the club form of head
bet have inherited the weak straw of
Turkey Red These two hybrias
have not been recommended by the
Experiment Station as adopted to
Palouse conditions where straw
grows heavy but have been recon-
mended for the dryer parts of the
wheat belt where there is little dan
ger of lodging but where an early
maturing, drouth-resistpg heavy
yielding winter wheat of good quail
Iity is desired. However, in making
the earlier distribution of the Col
lege y! birds. small quantities of Nos.
% and $50 We're furnished to Pa
louise farmers TO verify the results
already secured by Che station. I'm
fortunately, perhaps, a consiaera-
lac acreage OF these two wheats was
grown two years ago On land That
was not in condition to grow heavy
siaN and the results were excel
lrnr This encouraged a few more
farmers who observed these crops to
Try the wheats last year and as con
uitions did not give the strength Of
straw a very severe test the results
were again excellent as these Wheats
have high yielding power. As a con
sequence there is quite a large acre
age of these weak strawed hybrids
growing this year and the recent
storm had laid them fiat People
who observe these fields are erron-
iously condemning college hybrds
as whole.
Besides these weak-strawed Turk
ey Red-Little Club crosses the Sta
ton has distributed a number Of
Jones Fife-Little Club crosses de
signated as Nos. los, 123, 1873, and
219 and a cross between White
Track and Little Club, called No
143. These hybrids are all very
strong-strawed and mountaineering,
and have been and still are recon-
mended by the Station as valuable
varieties for Palouse conditions.
i Their strength Of straw is equal to
that of Red Russian and as they are
/ considerably earlier they are much
/ less likely 60 be caught by the
drought and heat of normal seasons
and in their ability to retain the
grain after they are ripe they scarce
ly have an equal among Washington
varieties of wheat. We desire to help
the wheat growers Of the Paiouse
all that lies within our power ana
in distributing hybrids Nos. los, 1913,
12S, and 143 we are confident that
great benefits are derived by the
wheat interests and we believe that
it will result in a great loss if these
hybrids are discredited through the
fault of Nos. SO and 800
A brief description of the prin-
cipal college hybrids together with
results of a three-year field test is
given in popular bulletin No. 8, issu-