The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-02-04
DOES 1T PAY TO PLANT GOOD
SEED WHEAT. E


Experiment Station and is interesting
and timely:
I'm the spring of 1912 Mr.. Jaime;
Herre who lives near Hillsboro in
Trail County, bought from the North
Dakota Experiment Station four bush
els of North Dakota No. 316 Blue Stem
wheat. He sowed this on four one
half acres of land in the spring OF
1912, and harvested from it 40 BUSH
els of wheat. This wheat averaged
three bushels more per acre than tue
Minnesota No. 1863 Blue Stem wheat,
which he had been growing previously
and which is very good wheat and
we'll adapted to the Red river Valley
The 12O bushels of wheat was very
carefully famed and all small grain
was eliminated, there being approx
mately 100 bushels of clean seed
which was sown on ninety acres OF
land in the spring of 1913. This field
Welded at the rate of % IL bushels
per acre, or two bushels more per acre
than the Minnesota No. 1853 wheat did
on practically similar land. Two thou
sand bushels of this wheat was sold
to neighbors for seed at 10 cent more
per bushel than would have been paid
at the elevator besides they hauled
| it from the granary as it came from
the threshing machine.
Now, what are the profits that Mr..
Here obtained from this wheat? 1t
cost him approximately $500 more
than if he had sown ordinary wheas
but he harvested about fourteen BUSH
els more In the first year the extra
yield more than paid the extra cost of
the seed. The second year he had ar-
proximately 100 bushels more wheat
than if he had sown the Minnesota No.
169 which he had been seeding, which
would be worth not less than $125.OO,
and the extra 10 cents which he OBJ
tanned for the seed sold amounted to
$4,000 more on the two thousand BUSH
els. The increased income the second
year from seeding four bushels OF
good grain amounted to approximately
$325.O0 besides having enough of the
North Dakota No. 316 Blue Stem
wheat to seed his farm in 1914. What
his extra profits were in 1914 is hard
to estimate but they probably exceed
ed dollar per acre on the entire
wheat land of 387 acres which is the
equivalent Of $387.00.
Crop conditions on Mr. HERES Sec
ton of the state were not favorable in
1914. The North Dakota No. 316
wheat averaged nine bushels per acre
on ordinary wheat land as compared
with Marquis on land that had been
in pasture for several years broken in
July and backset in October 1913.
This went nine bushels.
This is but an illustration of what
good seed will do as compared with
medium or inferior seed. One bushel
of wheat sown in 1915 should yield
from 10 to Is bushels, which if prop
erly graded and sown in the spring Of
1915 should yield from 100 to 900
bushels or enough to seed an average
farm. This shows how easy it is to
get a start in the best grain obtain
able, probably a little larger amount
should be sown in the first place than
single bushel in order to make a
field large enough to be worth while.
The important thing, however, is if
you are not already growing the very
best grain for your community. If you
are in doubt as to the varieties of field
crops which you desire to improve
| through the introduction of improved
pedigree seed write to the North Da-
kota Experiment Station. 1t may
save you from more or less costly
mistake.
GRAIN ABDUL ITERATION.