The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1910-09-08

of very plump wheat. The winter
wheat on the stubble came through the
winter in excellent condition and made
fine growth in the early part of the
season but the excessive drowth and
heat of the summer made it very short
and the heads failed to fill This land
produced heavy crop last year, con-
sequently there was no moisture in the
soil for the winter wheat crop this
year.
At Page the winter wheat was seed
ed in the three ways previously men
toned. On both the corn ground and
summer fallow the wheat made an ex-
cellent growth in the fall and went in
to winter in good condition. An ear
ly snow fall covered it up early in the
season and did not go off until March.
The wheat seemed alive but rather
weak and the very adverse spring
weather finished it. A few plants
grew on the corn land and produced
large heads of we'll filled wheat.
These plants will be tried out in the
plant nursery at the experiment sta
tion at Fargo to see if they do not
possess superior hardness. Only
small part of the wheat on the stubble
land germinated owing to the drowth
last fall. This wheat went through
the winter in good shape but there
was not enough of it to make profit
able crop so it was plowed up.
At Washburn only small part of
the wheat on the corn land germinat-
ed. It went through the winter in fair
shape probably 30 per cent of it win
ter killing. What was left was disced
up and spring wheat was sown in
stead.
At Bismarck about half of the wheat
germinated on the corn land. 1t went
through the winter in good shape and
made good growth in the spring. 1t
headed we'll and good plump wheat
matured. The stand was very thin
and the excessive drowth and heat in
.jured it somewhat. The conditions
were so severe here that practically y
no spring wheat matured. The wheat
on the summer fallow terminated and
grew we'll in the fall but it winter
killed. On the stubble land it failed
to germinate.
At New Salem the winter wheat was
sown on stubble land only. It did
not receive any rain after seeding,
consequently it did not germinate very
we'll. It went through the winter in
good condition and made a good
growth in the early summer but the
very severe drowth conditions at this
point injured it very much. The
straw and heads were very short
though we'll filled. 1t was cut July 16
and will probably yield six to eight
bushels per acre.
At Beach the winter wheat germin-
ated and made good fall growth in
both summer fallow and stubble. On
the corn ground it did not germinate
| very we'll owing to the fact that it was
impossible to get the wheat in deep
enough when sown broadcast. Part
of what germinated winter killed ex-
cept a strip alongside the stubble
which held the snow. This strip on
the corn land was left and produced a
very heavy crop of wheat. Both the
stubble land and summer fallow pro-
duced very heavy crops, the wheat be-
ing forty inches high and with long,
we'll filled heads. These wheat plots
all ripened about the same time. They
were harvested about July 20 but have {
not yet been threshed.
This season winter wheat is being
sown on fifteen of the demonstration
farms at Jamestown, Bismarck, Wash
burn, New Salem, Beach, Hazleton
Page, Hatton, Wahpeton, Hoople
Lakota, Granville, Mohall, CARING
ton and Mcleod, respectively. Or
all these farms the winter wheat is be
ing seeded in stubble, in standing
corn and in most cases on summer
fallow. This year one-horse dis
drill is used to seed the wheat in tn,
corn. This drill is sent as baggag
on the railroads. 1t is then taken .ou
to the demonstration farm and is Sc
up and a couple of acres of wheat i
seeded in the corn and it is then re
packed and sent on to the next farm
This machine does very satisfactor
work, particularly where the corr
! rows are straight. Had the winte
, wheat been sown by this means in tn
corn last year there would doubles
, have been less failures because Q
) poor termination. There will b
:. nearly forty fields in these winte
wheat experiments which are conduct
ed in fifteen different counties.