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New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-02-06
GOVERNMENT WHEAT
' GRADES. ..-
Army Regulations Net More Strict,
Every Farmer Will Be Paid
According to Quality. +.

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Whenever farmer meets another
farmer, he talks about the new Gov
::,ament grades on seed wheat. Some
oI them think tHey are not getting
square deal and that somebody some
where is running the price down on
them. 49, ...
It is very easy for every farmer
now to know whether or Tot he is
getting square deal by sending
sample of his grain to w. L. Oswald,
in charge of the U. S. bureau of Crop
Reports, $40 Flour Exchange, Min
neapolis, and he can rely, upon what
information is sent him about his
seed wheat; or he can send sample
of his wheat any time to the State
Grain Inspection Laboratory in the
Flour Exchange, Minneapolis, and he
will be told just what grade his sam-
pie is. 1t is not often necessary to
do this, however, because millers and
elevator men are compelled to buy by
grade according to the new Govern
ment regulations.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-02-06
How Seed Is Damaged.
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There are many factors which in
fuence and destroy vitality, the most
common being immaturity, heat or
weather damage.
It is almost impossible to get grain
absolutely free from some of its enc
mics; therefore few lots of seed when
tested for vitality will prove one hun
dred per cent strong. If a. certain
lot of wheat be sown under ordinary
conditions which tested only fifty per
cent, it means only fifty per cent of
a crop can possibly be produced, al
though it has been repeatedly proven
that by sowing twice as much, the
maximun output cannot be expected.
1t is therefore much better to test
all the seed and to fan it severely,
planting only the plumpest kernels.
Dispose Of your screenings in some
other way, the best being to feed it
to the chickens or to the hogs.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-02-06
Marquis a. Beardless Wheat.

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Marquis is beardless spring wheat
with hairless greenish white chaff and
hard red kernel. When pure it
closely resembles the old Fife wheat.
1t grows to medium height ranging
from % to 48 inches according to
season. Marquis is generally two to
four inches shorter than other
wheats in the same neighborhood.
The heads are short but generally
we'll filled, varying from III to 4
inches in length which is about one
half to one inch shorter than. other
varieties. -
The short straw is stiff and stands
up we'll. While it will not withstand
hail yet cases are mentioned where
other wheats went down badly in
driving rains mixed with sleet and
Marquis came through all right.
Marquis is an early variety ripen-
ing sometimes in ninety-eight days,
the average being about one hundred
and fifteen days. This makes it three
or four days earlier than most of the
other varieties. --......
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-02-06
SOIL FOR WHEAT.
Phosphate Must Be Supplied to Get
Maximum Results.
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Wheat is a shallow feeding plant
and therefore should have a firm
foundation. Every farmer will know
from his own experience how to
pillow his own land and there is hard
iy any one plan which could be sug-
gested for all Sometimes when
farmers have large areas they barely
Scratch the surface. They figure that
they cannot afford to hire much la
Dor and that whatever they get in
this manner is profitable. Others
will plow gradually d eper and many
of them get great results. Some of
them >plow in the fall aAd others in
the spring. The rotation has much
to do with it. 1t is generally ad-
mitted that the man who does his
blowing early in the fall gets better
results than the man who waits for
spring weather. .. -...
There is no doubt, however, that
one of the greatest reasons why
wheat is not more profitable to so
many farmers is that they have been
abusing their soil, robbing it of it's
fertility year after year and restoring
nothing. Wheat. removes a great
deal more phosphate. from The ground
than can be supplied in any natural
way.
The time has come when soil will
have to be rebuilt, restoring those
elements which have been removed.
1t would seem to be much better to
begin this building up process while
the land is still fertile than to wait
until it becomes a desert waste.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-02-06
PROFITABLE VARIETIES.
Velvet Chat, Lower in Protein Than
Marquis, Fife or Blue Stem by G.
r. Ball, Agronomist in Charge Of
Western Wheat Investigations
y. S. Department Of Agri-
cUIture.
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The wheat which has been so
generally grown under the name Vel
vet Chaf is the well known Preston
wheat introduced by the Minnesota
Experiment Station from Canada
where it was produced by. the Do
mlnion cerea1ist at Ottawa some
thirty years ago.
2. It is bearded wheat and meets
with some objection on that. account.
5. 1t has been recognized by mill
ers for several years that it is not of
as good quality for milling and
bread-making purposes as are the
other standard wheats of the SPRING
wheat BELT, namely, Marquis, Fife and
Blue Stem. The average. Of chemical
analyses shows it to be low in pro-
tein, which is the gluten-containing
substance of wheat and which deter
mines what millers and bakers call
the strength of the -four.
Z. 4. The results of many years of
varietal experiments at a large num-
Der of stations have shown that the
Preston Velvet Chaff) wheat is a
low yie1der compared with other
good varieties in all parts of the up.
per Mississippi Valley, except per-
haps limited area. The data on
which this statement is based you
find in our Marquis wheat bulletin
where Preston is one of the varie-
ties compared with Marquis at many
stations.
S. In my opinion there is no rea-
son for advocating the growing of
this variety anywhere in the hard
spring wheat belt.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-02-06
J Plant Food Needed.
National Crop Improvement Servic

lA>oeioHai Siop improvement SeiPVe.I
One thing is plain even with all
of our carelessness in farming. The
quality of Marquis Wheat is recog-
.nized as, superior to that of all other
spring wheats grown and it is up
to us as farmers to keep this high
standard Of excellence unsullied and
to breed it up as we would breed up
our livestock. ~-.s.
Marquis Wheat owes its fine mill
ing qualities to the characteristics of
our. soil and climate. When our soil
was new and fertile almost any care
less process of farm work produced
good wheat, provided it was reason
ably cured at harvest time. This fav-
orable state of the soil may, however,
not be expected to last except under
certain methods of crop rotation and
culture and replacement of the ele-
ments Of fertility removed by the
wheat %.>
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-02-06
Why Grow Marauis1

National Crop Improvement ssrvice.I
There are many reasons. why an
entire neighborhood should grow the
same kind of wheat There are too
many mixed varieties and the dan
ger is to get all varieties so badly
mixed through the elevator, or
through the thresher or through vol
unteer, that it would be difficult to
tell what. if any, variety, is predomi-
nant. The mixture of wheat is al
ways bad because when planted in
the field it grows to different heights.
natures at different times and thus
causes under-ripe or over-ripe waste
at harvest.
A badly mixed wheat is also infe-.
rior for milling on account Of the
different hardness or softness which
makes it impossible to have the same
machinery get the best results. It is
hard to do anything in the way of
separating wheat after it is once
mixed. &.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-02-06
Loss At Harvest.

National Crop Improvement service.l
Marquis wheat has great advan-
tage Of staying in the head until
threshed. Many other wheats lose a
large proportion by SCATTERING in.
and handling. Because of
its 5earliness it escapes to that extent
the. drought of dry years, the rust
and fall rains Of wet seasons, and
also early fall frost, all Of which oc.
Cured in the season of 1916.
"A Real Luxury.
Waiter" said the diner, ut says
here on thesmenu, green blueish.' ="
,ilYfs, sir. That means fresh ggEas5
from the water, SIR"
'Nonsense!' said the diner. "You
know we'll enough they do not taks
bIufesh at this season.
The waiter came up and looked a
the disputed item.
Oh. that, SIR he said with an air
Of enlig htenment, that am dollhouse
bluedsh, SIR Boston Transcript.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-02-06
Rotation for Spring Wheat,
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ti>alloudl crop Improvement service.
Disked corn ground has given con-
slstently high yields of spring wheat.
Many rotations have been advocated
for Marquis wheat. Each man has
his own idea of rotation although a
great many still do not practice rota-
ton as they should In four year
plan there should be one cultivated
crop, one legume like clover or al
falfa, and two grain crops. >~.-
The season has a great deal to do
with the crop. Some seasons moth
ing seems to make any difference and
inferior seed will produce. wonderful
results. Yet in nearly every year
there are some climatic conditions,
either lack of rain or too much Of it,
too hot or too cold, too much wind
or not enough, which may ruin the
best planned crop.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-02-06
BIN BURNT WHEAT.
An Enemy Turks in Damaged Seed
Don't Take Any Chances.

eAn Enemy LufkS IN damaged Seed
Don't Take Any Chances.
National Crop Improvement service.]
10 make success of wheat cul-
zture, we must year by year, staunchIy
persist in the use of good seed. If
you deviate from this rule, loss is
sure to follow. Sometimes the crop
is better than the seed, but that is
lucky fiuke. Repeated experiments
show that any variation in the seed
from number one hard" quality
will surely show up in the yield at
harvest
If the seed is of mixed type or
uneven in quality as to maturity, in
jury, weed seeds, etc, the quality at
harvest is sure to be of uneven grade.
Avoid any of the following. types
OF grain for seed purposes:
Immature seeds, no matter what
they cost, will weaken in seed value
because of the lack of a full food
supply IN the grain for the young
plants and perhaps of imnlaturity Of
the seed embryo itself.
Mixed varieties of the seed should
not be sown because the crop is sure
TO r1pen- unevenly, some of it being
green and some overripe when cut.
If seed has been frosted it will not
make normal plant. = E.
Wheat that has been wet and SUBJ
Ject to freezing and thawing during
the winter should be tested out in
plotting papers to see whether or not
1T has been injured otherwise, and if
it has, it should not be used. -,
Wheat which was threshed damp
and became hot" enough in the bin
to be noticed when the hand was
thrust into it, has been injured and
should be tested out before using for
seed.
If, after being threshed and stored
wet, it has become moldy or musty,
and caked together, do not use it, but
trade it in and get some approved
seed. Wheat which has been really
hot in the bin may be wholly dead.
1t is not safe to use it.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-02-06
Duty on Seed Wheat.

National Crop Improvement Service.l
The agitation for the entry of seed
wheat free Of duty from Canada,
sounds liberal on the face Of it, but
when it is considered that home
grown seeds are much better, it is not
a good idea to encourage farmers to
send so far away out Of their latitude
for seeds This has been proven con-
clusively in corn and because some
farmers in Southern Minnesota and
South Dakota have been disappointed
in their Marquis yields, it was discov-
cred that the seed came from much
further north and it may take year
or two to acclimate it.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-02-06
Inseparab1e Weed Seeds.
National Crop Improvement Service.

> INatl0naI7 Crop Improvement SerVice.I
In some sections Marquis Wheat
is infested with wild peas Cor vetch),
corn cocklep king head and wild
onions. All of these seeds are known
as inseparable because they are very
difficult to remove from the body Of
wheat. A very small percentage Of
any of these seeds will lower the
grade of wheat.
If your seed wheat is infested with
any of these seeds you should take
particular pains to burn out the stub
bic, fsaee rows and gullies because
they cannot we'll be removed with an
ordinary tanning mill. Don't plant
seed wheat infested with these pests.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-02-06
BLUNT OR sTINKING SMUT.
We Can Win the War by Fighting
Grain Diseases.
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National Crop Improvement servtce.l
There should Be no neglect in
treating seed wheat with formalde-
hyde. It pays. The crop is always
much improved in yield and quality
no matter whether the seed has smut
in il or not. Fornsaldehyde improves
the first growth from the seed
The small particles of dark dust or
powder which come from the. smut
balls, when busted upon the grains,
produce the disease in he crop the
following year.
The young plants are attacked just
as they are coming through the soil.
Sinking smut does not remain in
the soil in the form to do any dam
age to following crops, except in
very dry countries.
1t has been said by some that seed
wheat that is two or three years old
will not produce smut even though
6mutty. Ibis is not true Smutty
wheat kept two or three years pro-
duced as much smut as year old
wheat Of the same strain. The for
.maldehyde treatment of sprinkling or
by spraying has proven perfect
success. There are also a number of
smut treating machines on the mar
ket which do very satisfactory work.
Don't take any chances. Treat all of
the seed wheat
Obtain 20 per cent formaldehyde
and mix it in 80 or IS gallons of wa
ter in barrel. Apply this solution
to the grain in any manner which al
lows all the grains to become moist
over their entire surface.
Sprinkling and shoveling is as ef-
Iective as dipping and more rapid.
A small hand pump will be found
very good for spraying. Place the
grain upon tight floor space or on
canvas, spray or sprinkle on the
solution and Shovel or rake over the
! grain until it is moist enough to pack
in the hand Cover it and leave it
piled few hours before sowing.
A still better plan is to pour it over
your wheat in tubs, barrels or other
&C ntainers, which will allow the
trash, immature kernels, damaged
seeds and smut balls to rise to the
/ :op and be skinned off. The fluid
mixture can be. used over and over
again. Do not do this work in freez-
ing weather. Test out your grain
drill to see that it is properly set in
case the grain is swelled.
It takes about q Of a gallon OF the
solution to every bushel of wheat,
and l to Il gallons to every bushel
Of oats or barley.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-02-06
Drilling Seed Wheat.
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National Crop Improvement Service.l
Whether to sow our grain broad
cast or with a drill is hardly debat-
able question in recent years, the
advantages in favor Of the use of
good drill are now SO we'll recog-
nized. By means Of the drill the.
seed is put on evenly at uniform
depth, giving each kernel the proper
spacing for its best growth. There
are a great many farmers who use.
end gate seeder on large tracts where
they feel that the size of their acre
age will not warrant them putting
any more labor on the field than alb
solutely necessary
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-02-06
Don't Use Poor Seed.

National Crop Improvement Servicel
The question is often asked why
farmers who are more careful than
they used to be, cannot raise as fine
crops as they did some years ago,
either in quantity or in quality. In
most cases the reason is to be found
in the fact that a poor, uneven quail
ity of seed is placed in the ground
Many of our farmers seem to be-
lieve that wheat which cannot be
placed on the market on account of
its inferior grade may yet be used for
seed with safety. They pay dearly
for this notion, losing both in quality
and quantity.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-02-06
National Crop improvement serv,c. !

National Crop Improvement service.l
Marquis is first class wheat for
Hour making. Numerous milling
tests SHOW that Marquis is equal or
slightly superior to similar samples
of Fife and Blue Stem
Cruel Dad.
Her AdorerI cannot live without
your daughter.
Her Old Man Forget your pride
there are always the bread line and the:
soup kitchens.
We've large t,nDer Woiges ue.u
zsoitortea near Rsushsorsl by = .Ii ;s1sa-s
toraf, a farmer, who com planet he
rad lost four calves. Recent he
sid five crossed a field in which he
Vas working. Rushford hunters are
oreanising to start q drive on the
animals.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-02-06
Patriotic Schccl Children.

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Tie children of the United States
are eager to give public service and
DO all they can to help win the war.
The teachers have been asked to
make list of all the farmers in
the school district and assign every
farm to some pupil who will obtain
the farmers pledge to. grow an in
creased acreage of Marquis wheat
for 1918.
The Crop Improvement Committee
of Chicago has offered for every
pledge. thus returned to send a Blot
ter Paper Seed Tester SO that every
pupil can make at least one test for
the farmer reporting. Teachers are
invited to correspond with the COM
mittee.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-02-06
Effective Shells.

Controversy has long ragged regard
ing the actual lnan-killing power of the
big guns. It has been declared that
$4,000 worth of big shells. must be
fred to kill one of the enemy. Per-
haps it is true that an enormous
amount Of steel must be hurled by the
big guns to insure fatalities. Yet the
actual number Of men killed on all
sides By artillery fire probably runs in7
to the millions.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-02-06
Uses Of Potatoes in Sweden.

Uses made Of Swedish potato crop,
officially estimated this year at s 81, 22444-
1920 bushels, will be interesting to peo-
pie of the United States. OF the en-
tire crop, 37I per cent is used for di-
rect human consumptio 32.7 per cent
lis fed to animals, and 6,5 per cent is
used IN -four making. The loss in
storage Is 1l.9 per cent and lib per
SAINT Is retained for. seed
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-02-06
Goodbye! Velvet Chaffi

National Crop IMPROVEMENT Service. a
Velvet Chat, which is bearded
wheat, has been grown extensively.
but Marquis has become the general
favorite because it is beardless and
usually better yielder as we'll as
better milling wheat.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-02-06
MARQUIS WHEAT.
Seventy-Five Per: Cent of Our Local
Wheat Is Now of This Variety.

Marquis wheat is one of the de-
scendants of cross made about 1892.
The female was a wheat from India
called hard red Calcutta. The male
parent was the widely grown red
Fife. The breeding work was done
at the Canadian station at Ottawa.
The good milling qualities of this
variety became apparent by the end
of 1906 and It was sent out to Mani
toba for testing in 1907 in which year
wheat rust was very bad. 1t was
found that the earliness of this va
riety enabled it to partly escape the
rust and it soon became favorite.
It has been moving southwark until
it is being gradually established in all
the spring wheat sections.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-02-06
Pure Seed Wheat.
National Crop Improvement Ser,

National Crop Improvement Service.
Those of you who grow wheat
should make every effort to have that
which you grow pure; all Of it Of.
one variety or type. The man who
offers mixed wheat for sale hereafter
will have to take lower price than
if the wheat is all pure. hard wheat.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-10-04
LOAN ORGANIZATION
That For Annapolis Has Been COM
pleted And It's Personnel AS
sures Success

The Annapolis organization for the
fourth Liberty loan has been complet-
ed, and its personnel is sufficient TO in
sure our going "oyer the top" very
shortly after the sale begins, and very
much over in buying the $800,0 600
quota that the Government has as
signed to Anne Arundel County.
At the head of the organization as
the chairman is Col. Harry j. Hopkins,
with committee as the sales direc-
tors. These men will be assisted by a
small army of workers serving on sew
eral important committees covering
various campaign activities, and diff
ferent sections of the community. The
readers of the Capital will be especial
ly interested in knowing the names OF
those who are to assist in the work of
putting Anne Arundel "over the top
on the fourth Liberty loan. The COM
mittees that have been named are
composed of men and women whose
names have been previously published
in these columns.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-10-04
DOCTORS BUSY
ATTENDING FLU"
Additional Cases Reported Since Yes
terday. Some On The Mend.
Others Fall Victims

Next to the Draft Board who have
been busy day and night, with the
questionnaires, no body of men has
been kept on the jump day and night
as the doctors have.
One physician made 92 visits yester-
day to homes where there are pa
tients with "fiu," and in many homes
tients in one house
He easily ran his list up to two hum
dred patients suffering from influenza.
Other doctors are, quite as busy and,
next to the medicos are the druggists.
At several durg stores in town peo-
pie are Obliged to stand in line wait
ing their turn to have prescriptions
filled, just as people stand at box
Office to buy tickets at a theatre.
At Green's drug store the line ex-
tended into the street one night this
week, and some had to wait an hour
and a half, their turn to have their
prescription put up Such a thing was
never known in Annapolis before.
While some of the "fiu" patients
have recovered and are out again, a
number of new cases are found at
every turn, until the town is full of
sickness.
Chaplain Fl. H. Clark. U. S. ~, ire
tired,) the venerable clergyman, is
quite sick
Three of the daughters of Mr.. w. F.
Childs have the flu"
Joe Muhlmeister, an apprentice boy
at the Capital office, is down from
"fu''
Prof Horace ]. Fenton, of the De-
partment of Modern Languages at the
Naval Academy, is "fu" victim.
Mr.. Gidius, member of the Naval
Academy band. s'confined to his home
on West street with the ''fiu."
Mr.. Lewis Thomas, is confined to his
home on Murray Hill. suffering from
"fu.''
Prof H. A. Everett, Mrs. Everett
and their daughter Elizabeth, who
have been suffering from Spanish @fiu"
are on the road to recovery.
A report was current id the town
this morning that Mr. ]. Bernard
Lloyd had died of "fiu-" Mr. Lloyd,
who has been i'll for several days of
influenza, is much improved. and Is
making a good recovery.
Mr. Gateno Sasso, member of the
Naval Academy Band, who has been
confined at the Naval Hospital, suf-
fering from Spanish influenza, is re-
ported to be much improved and ex-
poets to return to his home on East
street in few days.
John Jacobs. carpenter at the Ma
val Academy, is seriously i'll at the
Emergency Hospital following case
of influenza The young man was re-
Gently the father of twins, one of
whom died at the hospital where he
is now a patient.
Mr.. J. w. Carter, who has been seri-
ously i'll with "fu." is IMPROVING
nicely.