Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-09-13
PLENTY OF SEED
FOR MORE ACRES
DIRECTOR BLISS ANNOUNCES
suEEIc.ENcy TO INCREASE
WHEAT AND RYE CROPS.
AGRICULTURAL LEADERS
IN IMPORTANT CONFERENCE
State Must Plant $4,000 Acres Of Win.
tor Wheat to Assume Her Share Of
Increased Acreass--Must Double
Amount Of Rye Formerly Grown
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Good Substitute For Wheat.
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Des Moines, Sept. 13.-Uncle Sam
expects Iowa to increase her winter
wheat acreage is per cent over that
seeded year ago and her rye acreage
100 per cent This will mean that the
state must put in $4,000 acres of win
ter wheat this fall as compared to 4ol,-
900 last fall and 116. 900 acres of rye as
against $4,000 seeded year ago.
The United States as whole Is ex-
pected to increase its winter wheat
acreage Is per cent over a year ago
and rye 21.s per cent.
Agricultural leaders in Iowa met
Wednesday with r. K. Bliss, head OF
the extension department of the state
agricultural college at Ames to consider
this increased acreage. The extension
department. the county crop agents
and other organized workers in agri-
cultural pursuits have been working
for some time to increase the acreage
Of fall sown wheat and rye in Iowa.
Seed has been pledged so that there
viii bea suffieiency, Director r. X.
Bliss has reported.
n Efe government declares thru a
statement issued by the United States
department Of agriculture that this
question demands serious thought. 1t
gives some figures as follows:
ITO supply the estimated needs OF
the United States, of the allies and in
part ofneutral countries Of Europe next
year 1t would be necessary to plant in
the United States for 1918 about ,4s.7
million acres of winter wheat 10 mil
lion acres Of spripg wheat, SO million
acres of rye. 10 million acres Of barley,
1872 million acres of oats and Ills mil-
lion acres of corn. Compared with the
10-year average the proposed acres re-
present increases of 43 per cent for
winter wheat. 5 per cent, spring wheat,
20 per cent all wheat, 124 per cent rye,
7-per cent barley22 per cent oats and
Z percent corn ora d total increase Of
70 per cent over the 10 year average OF
these cereals combined.
compared with 1917 these acreages
represent increases OF az per cent for
winter wheat. rs per rent Tor all wheat.
81 per cent for rye, and 5 per cent for
oats and decreases Of 8 per cent for
barley, and OF 8 per Cent for corn. or a
net increase OF As per cent over the
total 1917 acreage OF these cereals COM
bined.
Rye, - Whsst Substitute.
The government declares that more
rye should be seeded for It is a good
substitute for wheat. and that 1t ID
harder and y not so apt to winter kill
sand succeeds in colder climates than
sssilf s.-:4 n
8 .In Apy consideration Of the expan-
sion Of the acreage OF bread grains n
certain parts Of the country, It Is nee
essary to consider wheat and rye to-
gether,- declares the government. This
Is because rye can be planted eafe1y> on
many fields with less risk than wheat
Further rye can be used as a substi-
tute for wheat ~ a; bread grain by
those VINO are accustomed to 1t. Rye
succeeds on poorer soils and with Less
fertilizer and In colder climates than
wheat and for these reasons should be
planted In preference to wheat where
1t has proved a safer crop.
THE farmer who. because OF an at
tractive price for wheat may be tempt
ed to plant wheat rather than rye in