The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-09-26
FARMERS TO sow
PEDIGREE WHEAT
FOR BETTER CROPS


winter wheat have been distributed
to growers in this vicinity by the Wis
consin National Bank, Farmers & Cit
liens Bank, Merchants National Bank,
and the Bank Of Watertown. This Is
part Of the statewide cooperative
plan for securing larger amounts Of
high yielding seed wheat with which
to increase the production of this
much-needed cereal Based on assess
or's figures, Jefferson county harvest
ed $500 acres of winter wheat this
year. The government asks for 1910
in 1918.
Local farmers who grew the new
wheat for seed this year signed an
agreement with the bank which binds
them to keep the seed separate from
all other grains on the farm and SOW
or sell it for seed next year. If re-
distributed to other farmers these
men must in turn agree to retain the
variety in it's pure state for future
seeding. This process will be repeated
until enough seed wheat is available
for general sale In this and other
states. Farmers in this vicinity who
are growing this high yielding strain
are:
Joseph Molzahn, route 6.
John Kreuziger, route l.
c. w. Schwefel, route 2.
Walter Hintzmann, route 6.
John w. FELTON,, route 2.
R. A. Cebell, Watertown.
Frank l.. Gronert, route 6.
Robert Schmidt, route 6.
H. Wiesemann, route A.
Ed. Brooks, route 8.
VIM. F. Messer, route g.
H. Hollitz, route g.
John Schumacher, route 3.
Albert Oestreich, route 8.
Albert Kohlhoff, route g.
H. A. Schumacher, rural route. .
Otto Strache, route g.
Gust PAIL, rural route.
Emil Schuett, rural route.
Carl Schwenkert, route 6.
Joseph and Theo. KOppiness, route 4.
William Wiedenhoeft, route 3.
w. G. Jaeger, IXonia, route l.
F. Plasil, route /, Redwood
Robert Schuenke, route 5.
Alex Kruger, route 2.
Herman Ross, rural route.
G. F. Teich, route g.
Frank ZastrOw, route 2.
Theo. Seefeldt, route 9.
William Platz, route 4.
Frank r. Johnston, route 8.
0. B. Jaeger, route 2.
This wheat, developed by years of
painstaking effort by the State Agri-
cultural Experiment station has aver
Jagged 35.5 bushels on four-year test,
and is also popular with millers on
account of it's bread making qualities.
About 1000 bushels of this variety
lof WiscOnsin-grown wheat were dis
tributed this fall by more than 100
banks in various parts Of the state IA
vorable to winter wheat production
Wisconsin, in which the average
wheat acreage is small, was asked by
the government to increase it's SOW
ings 20 per cent The principal in
creases were recommended in the
areas where the acreage devoted to
that crop were already large and
farmers are accustomed to growing
wheat and have the machinery for
handling it. A material increase was
also advocated in places where the
production of oats and corn was
heavy since much wheat can be sown
to advantage in standing corn, on oat
stubble, or on land from which the
corn crop has been removed for the
silo or cut for fodder.
Winter wheat does best on rather
heavy loans and clays. Good wheat
crops are grown upon the well-drained
heavy red clays Of which there are
thousands Of acres in the Lake Super
| ior region. The areas especially
adapted for wheat in Wisconsin are
counties adjoining Lake Winnebago,
the lower Fox river, Green Bay, Lake
Michigan, Polk, st. Croix, Barron and
| adjacent counties; and most of the
counties in the southern part of the
state.
The adaptability of these soils to
winter wheat, when good rotations are
| followed, have been demonstrated on
the Station farms at Madison, near
Ashland and Superior and by large
number of farmers throughout the
| wheat growing sections.
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