The Greeley tribune., 1910-07-28
ED HOUSE
GRAIN EXPERT


ings with the occult, do not CLAIM
taht l can produce 100 bushels o
wheat upon dry land. am not an ad
vocate of that system of farming
and have accomplished only small
fraction of the phenomenal feats at
tributed to me by space writer's,
said Ed House to Tribune reporte
today. "As a diversion, or hobby /
you will, l have done Il little expert
ment work for the past six years
with different cereals. in an endeav
or to determine which was the mos
adaptable 10 withstand Ions
drought.
80 far have tried Els distinc
classes of wheat. barley and oats ant
of these I have given up as hopeles.
all but six grades. three of which are
wheat.
Il have demonstrated to my owT
satisfaction that Durum wheat will
Egyptian is next and then comes the
Chillian.
mo, have nothing to sell, either
in the way of seed or product" said
Mr.. House. but If you think my OBJ
servations would be of any use to
the public you may gladly have
them"
Mr.. House then explained how the
mill man objected to Durum wheat
because it is toQa hard. and to the
Egyptian brand0 0because it is too
soft. The Chillian was not a good
flour wheat because it lacked pro-
tein and starch although 1t was
mammoth in size. BY crossing the
Durum with the Egyptian he pro-
duced a hybrid with the desired tex
libility for the -four man, which
lost none of the drought resisting
qualities of the parent plants and
was decidedly more prolific than
either.
BY crossing the Chi'ilan and Dur
UNI he found equal results. obtain
ing in this hybrid even a larger
grain than the parent Chillian and
more protein than the Durum He
has tried to cross these hybrids with
out any success and has come to the
belief that it Is as impossible to
cross a hybrid seed or plant as it is
to cross hybrid animal.
He has great desire to produce
a winter wheat to be sown in the fall
the same as our own wheat Each
year he has planted an acre to al
most every species known but this
season was the only time his efforts
have ever been rewarded. From a
quantity received from Tennessee.
just four little lone seeds thrived
through the extreme hardships of
the past winter. One of these seeds
produced stool with forty-one
stems and all of them prolific in
grain. These will be on exhibition
at the coming county fair and every
one of these seeds will be planted
again this fall by Mr.. House, who
believes that al lof them will thrive.
He laughed as he repeated the
many fairy tales told and written of
his seedless water melon and cobless
corn. Anyone can grow either of
these. SO he claims. without leaving
their own field or garden. All that
Is necessary is to procure few
grains of corn from the very tip of
any ordinary ear, where the cob is
sometimes so thin as to be scarcely
discernable. AS like produces like
these grains will produce as ear or
rather stock with scarcely any cob.
1t is of no value, however. as what
we are striving for is more cob, as
the quality of the corn depends up
on the size of the cob. Any little
child can produce seedless water
melon in his own garden and from
the vines that are now maturing
Select any blossom and wait until
all the petals have fallen off and the
pinhead watermelon appears. Then
cover up the vine with earth any
and the mother plah.. Care must be
taken that the earth is sufficiently
packed to prevent the greater por-
tion OF the sap coming from the
plant to the pinhead watermelon,
just leaving sufficient circulation
to keep the vine alive. Immediately
the little pinhead begins to take up
the battle for existence upon it's
own account and sends out little
roots. Keep the earth soft and
moist SO they can take hold after
which the vine should be severed
from the mother plant where 1t was
covered up.
The vine continues to grow other
blossoms which develop into water
melons and these having received no
nourishment from the mother plant
will bear no seed.
In every experiment made Mr.
House claims that the hybrid pro-
duced from crossing any two grains
or plants has alWays turned ont all