The La Jara chronicle., 1911-08-11
Some Farmers Have Made A
Success With Good Seed.

Some Colorado farmers have a.
ready made a pronounced success
by greater care with their crops
and seeds. Many farmers have
delivered their grain where they
have taken this better care at
higher prices when sold for seed,
than the market would pay for
the best quality of market grain.
There is great demand for
this kind OF work and this kind
OF seed, more demand in fact than
there Is seeds to supply it. Mr..
Ben Preston of Fort Collins has
been making speciality of seed
wheat. Mr.. Preston has hand
selected seed patch for a num-
ber of years and takes special
pains in keeping his general field
pure. His own land is seeded
and he sells his general crop for
seed at a profitable figure. Mr..
Preston has not received less than
at the rate of $1.00 per bushel
Tor his wheat for some years.
This has been due to the fact
that care has been taken and
further that Mr.. Preston s wheat
Is true to type, pure and free from
other seeds. 1t can be depended
upon and will give good and
reliable crops.
Mr.. Chas. WetzIer of Fort Col
Inns obtained some California
feed barley from the Colorado ex-
pertinent station two years ago.
He is taking pains to keep this
strain pure, and last year he sold
ev"ry bit of barley that he had
to spare, for seed purposes, at
$l.50 per cwt., when market bar
ley was selling from $1.OO to $1.2
Mr.. E. r. Bliss of Greeley has
taken special pains to hand Sc
lect certain strain of White
Russian Side oats. Mr.. Bliss has
so improved this grain that it
outyields the common White Rus
sian and the care he has taken
of it keeps his strain pure. He
has had no trouble in selling all
he had to spare at prices so per
cent better ,han the general mar
ket could offer for first quality
oats. Mr.. Bliss could have sold
many times bis present crop if
he had had sufficient to supply
the demand.
Many growers in the Longmont
district have taken special pains
to select strains of Defiance
wheat which originally came from
The experiment station.
These illustrations have been
used simply because they point
the way to what can be done by
greater care in selecting seeds.
1t would not do for every farm
er to be IA specialist perhaps. in
the selection of wheat seed for
the special purpose of selling
wheat seed, but at least every
farmer could pick out some crop
which his farm is especially adapt
ed for growing, and take special
pains to hand select enough to
plant a seed patch. He could
plant his general crop from this
seed patch and keep up the hand
selection to plant new seed patches
In this way, the farmer would not
only improve his grain, but he
would keep his strain pure and
could sell his entire excess for
good prices for seed. Even if he
could not sell the excess for seed,
the increased value upon the mar
ket, due to the fact that a pure
strain was grown, and that the
grain was free from foreign mat
ter, such as weeds other grain ),
or different kinds of similar
grains, would increase the value
of his product enough to pay for
the expense he would be obliged |
to incur in order to have his
grain clean.
Now is the time that such work
must be done on grains for the
coming year. The Colorado ex-