Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-08-26
Variety Found BY Prof. Bolley in
Russia Has Proved Re-
sistant
TESTS COMMENCED
FIVE YEARS AGO

in fact Of the thousands of dollars
damage. done to the crop by rust.
Judge Coffey of the Stutsman coun-
ty district court, Albert IMonek and
John Matchie, beside sothers, have
grown a rust resistant wheat this sea
son and will secure big yields from
their harvested fields. Before harvest
the grain stood bright free and clear
Of all rust, while the heads were full
and heavy. John Matchie has a field
of 16D acres. After It was too late to
seed other Wheats this field was seed
ed, but notwithstanding the late start
the grain came forward in good shape
and when threshed will he his best
crop. Last year the crop was better
the weather conditions being more
favorable, and yield of rs bushels
or better of splendid kernels was Sc
cured. ~ a, .
Seed For Next Year.
3 Other fields of rust proof wheat
have, been grown this season, the az
gregate acreage being considerable
and sufficient to provide a consider
able quantity Of seed for next sea-
son, which several weeks ago was an
alarming condition in this state. AS
Stutsman county annually has in
some, 100000 acres in wheat, the diff
ference between half crop and a
full crop is very important item. a.
variation in yield of only four bush
els, an acre from an average Yield
means a million dollars to the grain
growers Of the county. A loss of half
a crop, as this season, is a material
item and means millions. .......
Because of the success with which
rust resistant wheat was grown in
this vicinity this year, jamestown
newspaper took up. the matter with
Professor H. l.. .Bolley of the North
Dakota extension department of the
agricultural college, to learn little
Of the history of this grain, which is
such sensation and has aroused the
attention every armer in the state;
this year. Prof. Bolley stated that
the chief merit of rust resistant
wheat will be its power to resist
"scab" and other funsarial and fun.
gus root blight, that yields Of the
grain on the agricultural college
farm have been most encouraging,
and that the wheat, itself, has proved
worthy of increase on disease garden
plot. .....:.s.. .....
:.~.r H., Started in 1911.
In 1911 put into the hands of
several farmers a number Of wheat
collections which for some years had
given good results on our. trial
grounds" said Professor Bolley. "One
Of these given out under the name Of
p s has proved to be an exception.
ally good yielder in the presence Of
blight and rust. 1t proved. itself wor-
thy Of increase on our disease gar
den-plots in 1904-O5 and 1906, and has
since 1911 held it's own in the hands
OF. a number of farmers notably in
the WimbledonIF essenden district Of
the state, Of North Dakota. .....
"The elevator men bought it two
or three years without discrimination,
but lately have claimed it to be a
bad milling wheat and have discount
ed it much more heavily than any of
the small milling tests yet made war.
rant. It was first selected as indi-
tyidual plants by me from Russian
fields, southeast of Kanzan in 1903
and has since been given by me as
several straight selection-strains in
the plant disease gardens at the agri-
cultural college. There. are now vari-
GUS grades of more or less mixed
lots in use on many farms in North
Dakota, South Dakota and Minnesota.
Reports seem generally favorable to
il. as a heavy yielder, under rust con-
ditioins, in most regions, but more
especially in the dryer, lighter land
areas. -v... l..t
Resistance Of Seab
''While it Is clearly quite resistant
to rust, l believe that its chief merit
rests in it's apparent power to resist
scab and other funsarial and fungus
root blights against which | have
been holding it steadily to account.
The. method Of selection has been to
grow It continually On On wheat sick,
gungus infested soil, and each year
to- grade it BY mill and hand selec-
ton to the plympest, best seed before
planting. The result is very en-
couraging-even though 1t does not
prove to be OF the highest quality
for it points. out the way to follow
with it and other, stains. u.
Rust, resistant wheat is similar to-
the various. ,durum wheats in most most
charactertstics, am hoping tbs. sea- sea:
son to establish more clearly its real
merits as to milling value as many
farmers on different land areas have
promised. to send in sufficient for
larger tests. Furthermore, il native
region ii dryer, lighter land and when
II has been given larger trial under.
these conditions I hope to see 1t lose
many Of it's black points which are
due to disease only. When there are
lost by cultivation on the newer, more
disease-free lands OF the west much
Of the dark color of the -four may
naturally ;disappeaE"
MAN HAS ROOT cQI HI
DEF IN BINDER
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