The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1909-08-20
WHEAT CAN BE
6ROWN m MLTA.
Secretary Stestls1 Receives interest
ln1 Letter from Whest cOncera.

For many years the farmers Of Mis-
sissippi have manifested no interest il
the wheat crop, and its culture ha
practically been abandoned. Wit
wheat selling at $1.35 per bushel an,
-four at over 500 per barrel, this val
liable crop now commands the atten
ton Of the leading farmers throughout
the State, and it is extremely probabl,
that during the coming year q yer,
large acreage will be sown in wheat
The following letter just receive<
shows that we have . market at oul
points in the Northwest:
Mr.. r. ". Sterling,
Sec'y Greenwood Business League
Greenwood, Miss.
| Dear SIR
1T affords Is pleasure to reply tc
your letter Of the 18th inst, in regard
to the planting Of wheat in your terri
tory, and We are glad to note that the
planters + Interested; and il a market
can be obtained for the wheat, a large
acreage is likely to be planted this fall.
Relative to the probability Of their
being able to market the wheat, will
say that we have a capacity for grind
ing 5000 bushels each day. You will
therefore see that in twelve months
time, provided we were able to keep
our mill going, we could grind nearly
100000 bushels of wheat, which no
doubt would be fully as much as will
be raised in your territory, and you
may say to those who are interested,
that we would at all times pay them
tho highest market price, based on the
Chicago, New York, Kansas City and
st. Louis markets.
I'VE are 30 situated that Immediately.
after harvest, the rate of freight being
the same to Memphis as to st. Louis,
that we can ordinarily buy No. 2 red
winter wheat testing SO, delivered at
Memphis at the same price that the
same grade Of wheat is quoted for in
the st. Louis market.
"YOu may, without fear of making a
mistake, say to your people that they
will not have any difficulty in %disposing
of and marketing wheat that will grade
as good as No. 2 and test 50.
40 buying wheat we base our rur-
chases Of this kind of wheat on the un-
Outstanding that if the wheat tests So,
it will make the grade No. 8 and there
would be a discount of 10 per bnshel.
II it tests 81 the discount would be &c
per bushel, and no miller likes to IN.
to grind wheat testing below
81 to the bushel.
We would be delighted to be able to
draw our supplies from the great state
of Mississippi, and are willing to en-
courage the movement as far as lies in
our power"
Yours truly,
YATES & DONELSON co.
This crop be grown as success
fully in Leiore County as in any other
part Of the Uuion. Mr.. NJ. L. Stod-
dard says that his father planted ten
acres in wheat in 1875, and twelve acres
in 1875, planting between Nov. 9Th and
18th, and harvesting in the latter part
June. The first year the yield was
forty-two bushels per acre, and the
year thirty-eight bushels per
acre. The wheat was hauled to Black
Hawk and ground in an old time flour
mill built before the war, and the flour
was fine. The grade Of wheat was pro-
nounced "tip-top" BY W. A. Gillespie,
A. D. 6toddard and others. They said
they never saw better wheat anywhere.
Both had lived In a wheat country.
Individual instances are or record
where an average of as high as 20
bushels per acre has been made here.
The last ens gives the average
yield Of wheat in the United States as
II bushels.
A few years ago the Mississippi ex-
pertinent station made . number of ex.
periments with wheat, and the yields
secured were very encouraging.
In one Of the tests the wheat was
planted Nov. 14th, on well drained,
sandy, loamy soil without fertilizers.
The yield Of the best variety Lancas-
teri was 24.a bushels, the yield of the
poorest variety tEcl;pse) was 16.1 BUSH
els per acre; the average yield Of
twelve varieties for that year was 1911
bushels per acre.
Prof. 3. R. Lloyd will furnish full par
ticulars regarding kind and quantity Of
seed which should be sowu, md an
swer any other questions which our
readers wish to ask.
II . concerted effort is made to put
In . largo increase of wheat this fall,
our planters will not only find . ready
market for it ~ indicated in the above
letter, but it will be the means Of es-
tahlishing in Crossword . Hour mill.
Miss Pearl Keene, the popular book
keeper Of the Cumberland Telephone
Go. Of this city, returned last Monday
from vicksburg. where she had been
Whiting relatives and friends.
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