Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-09-13
ROCKCASTLE COUNTY
WHEAT AND SHEEP CAM.
PAIGN.

Rockcastle County will conduct a
Wheat and Sheep Campaign, be.
ginning September II. The plan
is to hold two meet ngs in each
magisterial district at night
These meetings to be located by
the magistrates. The magis-
trate of each district will ride
two days and nights with County
Agent Spence and help HIM with
the meetings and daily visits to
farmers.
Government pledge books for
wheat and the Red, White, and
Blue cards will be at each meet.
ing for the farmers to sign.
Every section of Rockcastle
County will have a meeting held
for the purpose of discussing
Wheat. Sheep, and Kentucky
Dog Law in September.
All farmers are ask to read the
following article--Directlons For
Growing Wheat
Directions for Growing Wheat.
Seed and Varieties.
The varieties Of wheat general.
ly grown in Kentucky are the
best for this State. These are
Fultz, a smooth, white chaff vari-
ETY.: Currelfs Prolific, having a
smooth head with red chaff; Full.
caster, a bearded variety, Medi-
terranean, or Four-rowed .Fultz,
Poole and Harvest King.
If necessary to buy seed, one
of these varieties should be chos-
en-, and if possible the seed
should be bought in the immedi-
ate locality. Home grown seed
is just as good as Northern seed
if reasonably clean and pure. No
farmer can afford to buy enough
high priced seed from a distance
to plant his entire crop, and pay
freight charges in addition, just
to have absolutely pure seed.
A moderate admiXture of other
varieties will not decrease the
yield. The important thing is to
have seed free from rye, cheat,
and especially cookie and onions
Seed wheat should be cleaned
in order to remove light eshrunl,
en- grains, dirt and other lmpuri-
ties. There is no advantage in
screening out small grains if
they are plump.
SMUT TREATMENT.
Sinking smut has caused
widespread loss in Kentucky
this year. 1t is practically inn
possible to buy seed that is en-
tlrely free from it. Consequent.
ly, not a bushel of wheat SHOULD
be planted this fall without first
treating it for smut. The for
maldehyde treatment is easily
given, is very effective aud it
has largely supplanted the blue
stone treatment. 1t is applied
as follows; Spread the wheat
out on a floor or clean canvas
and sprinkle until thoroughly
| wet with a solution made by ad-
ding one pound of .formaldehyde
to barrel $50 gallons) of water.
Then shovel into a heap and
cover with canvas or sacks foi a
few hours. Spread and dry suf-
ticlently TO SOW.
FERTILIZlNG WHEAT.
No fertilizers should be used in
the Central Bluegrass sections
this fall. In the fei tilizer tests
conducted by the Experiment
Station, a profitable increase has
never been obtained on wheat,
in the Central Bluegrass section,
by the use OF any kind of com.
mercial fertilizer at sowing time.
Everywhere outside of the
Bluegrass section a fertilizer
which supplies phosphorus only
should be used. No farmer Can
afford to use commercial nitrogen
and potash at present prices,
even if they give some increase
which is entirely unlikely Acid
phosphate, steamed bone meal,
or basic Stag supply phosphorus.
Two hundred pounds per acre Of
one Of these should be used on
every acre Of wheat sown in the
State this fall outside of the
Bluegrass region.
The experiments of the Sta,
| ton on its soil fields in various
areas OF the State have shown
:. remarkable increases from a.