The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1912-09-13
FARMERS INSTITUTES.
Winter Wheat in South Dakota

Ionomist, South Dakota N,.s-
pertinent Station.
Other things being equal, the
produclon OF winter wheat per
acre will exceed that of spring
wheat. Experiments are in
progress at the various sub
stations to learn just how much
difference there Will be be-
tween the best varieties of Win
ter wheat and the best varieties
OF spring wheat in acre yield
when compared under similar
conditions.
Another reason why the grow
ing OF winter wheat deserves
more consideration is that it is
the ideal dry farm crop. the one
which has made dry farming
financial success in nearly all
sections where it lis Success,
including Utah and the re-
glon known as the Inland Em=
plre, comprising eastern WASH
lngton and Oregon and southern
Idaho.
A third reason is that it gives
a chance for a division Of labor,
for all the planting that lis com
pleted in the fall will be out of
the way during the spring rush,
and the harvest will be com
pleted ahead of the earliest
spring grain.
1t will therefore be readily uns
derstood why the South Dakota
Experiment Station and the
United States Department OF Ag=
rlculture in their experimental
work in this state regard the
solving oi, winter wheat problems
of such great Importance.
The progress already made has
indicated the best variety to
grow the probable best slime
to sow, the folly OF trying to
grow winter wheat on bare fall
blowing and the probable best
rate OF seeding La a construc-
tive way, considerable progress
has also been made in locating a
strain OF superior hardness. If
this strain continues to prove
hardy it will be available for
limited distribution IN few
years, and it's introduction will
make it easier to succeed with
winter wheat on fall blowing.
While there is still much to
do, the following propositions
are fairly we'll proved:
The best variety at present for
South Dakota conditions is that
popularity known as Turkey Red.
This variety contains several diff
ferent strains which are being
separated out and some of which
promise to be better than the or
iginal bulk variety.
The best rate of seeding is be-
lieved to be three pecks per acre,
increasing to four in the east and
decreasing to two in the dlier
central portion.
The best time of seeding in an
average of years will probably
be from September lst TO 18th,
although each individual season
varies so much that it may new
er be possible to state definitely
that this or any other date is
best.
The safest plan for seeding VIM
ter wheat is to use a one horse
drill and SOW between the corn
rows without any further pre-
paration than the cultivation
that the corn should have re
ceived.
While stuhbling in is better
THAN fall blowing, it is a poor
farm practice and since the main
object of sowing winter wheat
is to increase the yield per acre
there can. be little object in sow
ing the wheat in such a way that
a low yield is assured from the
START.
If wheat is sown on summer
fallow as is done in the great dry
farming areas it is we'll to leave
the surface as rough as pcss!-
ble.to. o.preventyblowing. More kill
ing is due to blowing than to any
other cause. as the sitting soil
PARTICLES injure the crowns of
I the wheat plants. 1t wili be
noted by anyone observing fields
of winter wheat in the spring that
in places where the drill aociden-
tally ran deep the wheat would
be alive while the greater portion
of the field had winter killed