The La Jara chronicle., 1911-08-11
AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT
Directed by Colorado Agricultural College


for irrigated conditions in Colora-
do and contiguous territory, was
originated at the Colorado EXper.
ment station. The Regenerated
Defiance was also originated at
the Colorado experiment station,
and it is now acknowledged to
be the very best spring wheat of
this region. The Colorado eX-
pertinent station has originated
Colorado No. so wheat, Colorado
No. 81 oats, Colorado No. 13 oats
and other productions. 1t is now
working upon improved strains
of grains. 1t is improving the
quality of alfalfa and is pointing
the way to the Improvement in
quality of potato seeds and the
potato industry. These are things
that have been accomplished. The
experiment station is not re-
ducing its efforts in this line.
The Colorado Grain and Seed
Growers association, organized a
few years ago has been endeavor-
ing to assist the work of getting
better seeds generally grown and
produced. Recently the National
Grain Exchange has taken up this
matter and is assisting the expert
ment station getting information
upon good seeds, and is also as
sisting in distributing the same.
Just an example or two to show
the value of good seed in grain.
! We will use for an example fic-
titious name, although it repre-
sents an actual case. We will call
the person Mr.. Wood, chiefly be-
cause that is not the man S name
who took part in the actual incl
dent. Mr. Wood took load of
wheat to q grain dealer who told
him he would pay 70 cents per
hundred. The market price of
wheat would indicate that the
dealer should pay about 80 cents
per hundred. Mr.. Wood objected
to the price. This particular grain
dealer was anxious that his busi-
uesS should thrive, so he
took the pains to take the load of
wheat and carefully run it
through the cleaner. Mr.. Wood
saw that after the grain had been
cleaned of wild oats, weed seed
and other foreign substances, the
grain dealer was paying him all
the market would stand when he
gave him 10 cents per hundred
for his seed instead of 80 cents.
If Mr. Wood had had clean grain
fr frcm weeds and free
from wild oats and from other
grain mixtures, his grain would
have brought 80 cents per nun
dred without question, but the
grain dealer had to take Mr..
Woods grain as he brought it in.
He had to &c to the expense of
cleaning out the forei gn sub
stances, and he also had to take
into consideration the amount of
loss in weight which these sub
stances caused. In this case, the
fact that Mr.. Wood had poor seed
caused him to receive 20 cents
per hundred for his seed when he
should have received 80 cents if
: had had seed wheat with no
mixture of foreign grain or weed
seeds. As his crop that year
amounted to 1000 bushels or 2407
600 pounds, he received at 10
cents per hundred, $1,6S0. If
his grain had been clean and
Of no better quality than what he
had, h" would have received $2,-
160. The question of clean seed,
therefore, cost Mr.. Wood in this
one season alone, the difference
between $2.160 and $1,6S0 or
$3.50, an amount entirely suffi-
cient to have paid for cleaning
the seed or to have paid for
clean seed.
The Colorado Grain and Seed
Growers association and the de-
partment of agronomy of the ex-
pertinent station are anxious to
get information about all pure
seed of whatsoever farm crops are
grown in Colorado. The expert