Philip weekly review. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 1907-1912, 1909-08-17
PROCURING SEED GRAIN

wheat shipped from between Can
ton and Sioux Falls and tested 81
1-2 pounds to the bushel. L
seoms pity with the demand
there is in this state for superior
seed grains, and particularly fol
winter wheat west of the river
this excellent quality of native
grown grain should be shipped
from the state. Experiences Will
winter wheat in this state have
varied materially in different seas
ons. Some have remarkable sue.
cess, while others have met with
failure. Doubtless most of the
failures have resulted 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 seas
ons, and if it gets too heavy a top,
so as to endanyer smothering,
should be grazed off with brood
sows or light cattle, when the
ground is perfectly dry or after
freezing. 1t will, however, sell
dom need grazing.
The special object of this article,
however, is to call attention of the
farmers to the importance of pro-
ing the best possible seed grains
while it is most easily done. In
nearly every community 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, morn
ing glories, cockle-bur, quack
grass, and other foul weeds by
sending away to a distance for
seeds. The farmer who had early
varieties of oats and barley, and
sowed them early in a good seed
bed, escaped the recent hail storms,
or at least had his grain in shock.
His neighbor who sowed late va
rieties of these grains lost his crop.
Almost every summer about har-
vest 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
arly, early varieties of oats and
barley, speltz sown early on we'll
drained land can nearly always be
matured before our disastrous hail
season, and suffers very little dam
age if well shocked. These early
varieties almost invariably give
the best returns in this state. In
seven years experiments at the
Agricultural College, early oats
gave an average yield of 20 bush
els to the acre more than any of
the later varieties. These were
the Lincoln oats, also known as
Kerson, Sixty Day, Early Russian
and by some other names. There
are some of these grown in nearly
every community. Why not pro-
cure 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 a wonderful oat
with big name million Dollar),
that would mature early and yield
20 bushels to the acre more than
the later varieties, many farmers
would pay S. a bushel for some
seed. Some neighbor of yours has
just such a variety of oats. Why
not deal with himl There is also
a great difference in the quality of
the wheat grown by different
farmers. II 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 with
out charging two or three prices
for it. You can we'll afford to sell
it to your neighbor for the same