The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-03-03
GRAIN VARIETIES
ARE TESTED
REPORT OF FOUR YEARS
TESTING AT STATE
SCHOOL.
Farmers Interested in Experi.
ments Conducted by Purdue
University During Year.


varieties of corn, oats, wheat, cow
peas and soy beans conducted un-
der the direction OF the Indiana
Experiment Station by farmers
throughout the state have just
been completed and are being
published in bulletin form.
The principal Obpects OF test
ing varieties OF these crops in
cooperation with the farmers
throughout the state are:
1. To determine the relative
merits OF the better varieties OF
various farm crops, and find out
which should be recommended to
farmers in any given locality.
2. To determine the varieties
most suitable for foundation
stock in the work OF breeding for
any given locality.
3. To bring the better varie-
ties to the notice OF farmers by
giving them an opportunity to
make comparative tests on their
own farms.
4. To find out new or promis-
ing varieties and test them be-
side Standard varieties OF known
value.
). To encourage systematic
crop experimentation among
farmers.
6. To encourage farmers to
get pure seed of the variety
which gives them best results,
and adopt it for their general USE
The total number OF tests con-
Quoted during the year with the
above named crops were CSC.
divided as follows: Corn 647:
Oats So; wheat 1O6: soy beans
81; cow peas GO.
In each case from three to five
of the leading varieties were in
cluded and from three to a dozen
or more tests were located in
each county.
During the last four years 1910
tests of corn. including twenty
varieties: 314 tests of winter
wheat, including nine Varieties !;
314 tests OF oats, including over
dozen varieties: and 246 tests
OF cow peas, including seven
varieties. were conducted, involv-
ing nearly 800 farms we'll dis
tributed throughout the state.
The four year average yields
OF the various varieties show
pretty conclusiv ely what NAV be
expected OF each under average
conditions. Among the varieties
OF corn adapted to the northern
tiers of counties, Early Dent
Welded an average of SIS bushels
Cooks Yellow Dent. 80 bushels !;
Dunn's Yellow Dent 52.3 bu-
shells: Anston's White Dent 52.3
bushels; Silver Mine 81 bushels !;
anil Hayhursts' Yellow Dent
51.6 bushels. In the north CEN
trail counties. Pulaski county Col
den Dent yielded an average OF
53.S bushels; Reid's Yellow Dent
1913 bushels per acre. In the CEN
trial counties, Leaning Welded an
average of 56.6 bushels: Refd's
Yellow Dent, 81 bushels: Golden
Dent 54.6 bushels; Boone Coun-
tv White 5S.2 bushels and Pride
of Indiana IA bushels per acre.
In the south central anil south
ern counties, Pride OF Indiana
yielded an average of 522 bu-
shells: Johnson county White
$50 bushels; and Alexander
Gold Standard 50 bushels per
acre
OF the wheat varieties tested,
Michigan Amber yielded an aver
age of % bushels; Dawson's
Golden Chaff, 21.2 bushels. Rudy
21.1 bushels; abundance 21 bu-
| shells: Farmers Friend 21.5 bu-
shells: Now American Banner,
2O.5 bushels. and Mealy 49, bu-
shells per acre.
OF the oats varieties tested,
Great Dakota yielded an average
of $40 bushels; Swedish Select
39.7 bushels Car OF Russia 33.1 ;
bushels and Early Champion
25.2 bushels per acre.
OF the soy bean varieties tested
in the northern half of the state.
Ito San yielded an average of
$3.50 pounds hay and 1873 bu-
shells grain; Early Brown 1900
pounds hay and 1876 bushels
grain; Holybrook 2,34s pounds
hav and 14.2 bushels grain and
Medium Early Yellow $500
pounds hay and 15.2 bushels
grain per acre.
Cooperative tests of varieties of
all the above crops will be re-
peated this year and the Agri-
cultural Department is prepared
to furnish sets of seeds OF several
varieties of each crop to several
hundred farmers in Indiana for
spring planting, free of cost, on
condition that they be tested &C
cording to instructions that will
be furnished and the results re-
ported after harvest. Anyone in
terested in this work and pre-
pared to conduct such expert
ments should write TO the under
signed for particulars and appli-
cation blanks.