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

County Agent, Spence. as
sisted by the Magistrates aud
officers of Farmers Clubs of
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.; Currell,s Prolific, having
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 sshrunl,-
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 i'm
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 and 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 lformaldehyde
to a barrel $50 gallons) of water.
Then shovel into a heap and
cover with canvas or sacks fol- 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 fertilizer 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 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.