The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1915-04-09
HOW TO IMPROVE QUAIL
ITY OF DURUM WHEATS
BY Prof. H. L. Bolley, N. Dali. Botan-
list and Seed CommissioA

BY Prof. H. L. Bolley, N. Dali. Botan.
list and Seed Commission
The chief trouble with Durum
wheats in the Northwest is that a good
many people have been trying to raise
the wheat in regions not suited for
the growth of Durum wheat, namely:
on heavy, wet, fertile lands. Those
people should cease trying to do this
until we have a different kind of Dur
UNI wheat than we know about now.
They should confine their wheat rails
ing to the proper varieties for that
region while those who live in the
semi-dry land regions where the land
naturally tends to dry out about the
time wheat is maturing, where they
can naturally practice semi-dry land
farming, should try the Durum wheat.
Next they should learn the color Of
Durum wheat that is demanded, name
ly: bright, clear, amber-colored grains
free from all cloudiness or black
points or white bellies. If they want
to get this kind Of wheat, they must
plant this kind of wheat and be sure
to harvest it when it is ripe, save it
dry, thresh it dry, and store it dry
keep it free from disease by doing
those things, as indicated. The fol-
lowing are the essential steps in i'm
proving Durum wheat:
How? Get a pure variety. Re
member hat Arnautka OF Kubanka
are the Standard types. S%tandardize
the seed for your whole farm by
growing your W seed each year
on a seed plot so arranged by leaving
out every fifth, sith or seventh shoe
in the drill that you may be able to
walk through the plot without trampl-
ing the wheat and pull out the false
heads of other kinds of wheat present,
weeds, etc. 1t is a pleasure for you
and for the kids. Save this plot very
carefully. If you do not have a
threshing Neutrality-suspicious. it and cut
it when it is ripe, and keep it free
from moisture by covering it with 4
canvas or other cover; if the thresh-
err does not come along, put the
shocks together when dry in a small
acre stock or stack and cover with
a larger canvas cover or with a hay
dressing. Thresh it in a threshine
machine that does not contain other
kinds of wheat in the sleeves or else
where. Use this seed to sow fo4
your general crop. In harvesting the
general crop, remember that it is am.
Der colored, hard fiinty berries that
the market demands. Harvest tn,
grain before it gets dead ripe ant
try to get it threshed free from mois
ture if possible.
Practice crop rotation. The pur
pose of the rotation is to prevent tn
land from getting full of wheat stub
BE, and full of the wheat disease
which eat off or rot off the roots o
the wheat crop, also to prevent it froT
getting volunteer grains of other var
ISliCS VI ClC all hlIlu VI grain l
your crop. 1t is always we'll for
farmer to make a specially of on
kind of wheat. If he tries to make
speciality Of several kinds on the sam
farm, he is pretty sure to have the.
mixed before many years, and the
there is no standard type representa-
in the entire lot. and ,ae tanning m!
becomes essentially a poor tool. Care
full crop rotation, careful seed se!e
ton and careful treatment Lefcre SOW
ing, careful harvesting of the grain
avoid moisture, will allow you TO sc
a standardized, proper colcred Duru'
wheat. Get your neighbors in IL
same region to grow the same varie1
that you do so that your station vi
make a reputation for growing OF
kind of grain. If your region is be
suited for Durum wheats, raise Du
UNI wheats, if it is best suited f
Blue Stem or Fife, don't try to mix
the Durums. There is not a go,
market for mixed wheats, even thong
some of the elevator men and mile
do like to mix them. Remember tn
the elevators, and especially the m
lers, like to do their own mixing al
the latter have a right to do so
they pay a fair price for each so
used in the mixture.
TRANSATLANTIC ALFALFA