The Redwood gazette., 1918-03-20
The Price of Wheat

Qark, nara ana VlCfeOuS kernels.
The Price of Wheat.
In order to still further stimulate
the production of wheat the Presi-
dent has placed a minimum price of
1920 on the 1918 crop the same as
for the crop of 1917.
The winter planting of wheat is
about 100000 acres. It is expected
that the spring acreage will be con-
siderably more than 20,00O,0O0 acres
Now that the price is assured,
much larger acreage will be sown in
the Northwest than was considered
possible. Many, who at the old price
of $500, were contemplating sowing
the coarser grains have now decided
to raise spring wheat.
A seed survey taken in many school
districts in the Marquis Wheat Sec
tion indicates that there will be suffi-
cient seed wheat to supply the de-
mand. Those who still lack seed or
have any surplus of good Marquis
Wheat for sale should Immediately
get in touch with their elevator or
I mill or through the local scotsman.
| If not able to find proper seed at an
acceptable price, Immediately apply
to Prof. C. P. Bull, University Farm,
St. Paul, Mimi, or to Prof. Manley
Champlin, Agricultural College at
Brookings, South Dakota.
Marquis a Favorite Wheat.
Every year the acreage of Marquis
is spreading. Farmers, millers, bank
ers and real estate dealers are all
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is being sown and is overlapping the
northern third of the winter wheat
territory and in many places where
winter wheat has failed Marquis
wheat will be replanted this spring.
Sinking Smut or Bunt.
You can insure your wheat crop
against smut very cheaply and very
efficiently. All wheat should be treat
ed in a solution of one pint of full
strength formaldehyde in 80 gallons
of water 1t is best to treat it in an
open tub or barrel which will allow
the thrash and many of the smut
balls and the broken or smutted ker-
nels to rise to the top and be skim
med off. The same solution can be
used over and over again.
Treat the wheat and pile it in a
wagon-box or canvas and cover it
over for several hours. You can get
formaldehyde from any druggist but
be careful that it is full strength.
You cannot afford with wheat at 1920
a bushel to take any chances on stink
ing smut to ruin your crop.
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Marquis wheat is first-class wheat
for flour making. The Fife and Blue
stem wheats are also good hard red
spring wheats for this purpose. Nu-
merous milling tests show that Mar
quis wheat is equal or slightly supe-
rior to similar samples of Fire and
Blustem wheat. The Preston wheat,
popularity knwon as Velvet Chaff, has
yielded a little greater in a few sec
tions, but it is a bearded wheat while |
Marquis is beardless.
Marquis now equals and is rapidly |
forging ahead of the yields of Velvet
Chaff. Velvet Chaff is not popular
because it has poor milling qualities.
Re-Cleaning of All Seed Wheat.
We can afford to take no chances
on planting a lot of weed seeds with |
our Marquis seed wheat. Now is the |
greatest opportunity we have ever
had to establish this variety in pref
erence to all others. The Government
price of 1920 will make it worth our
while to spend all the time necessary
in getting our wheat ready for the
ground. The tanning mill should be
used vigorously, blowing and screen
ing out all thrash and weed seeds, i'm
mature kernels, etc., so that the seed
wheat when it goes into the ground,
will be uniform in size, each kernel
having the same amount of plant food
so that it will all get an equal start
and mature at the same time.-Advt.
Under the new food regulations
neither dealer nor consumer can buy
to exceed sixty days needs. It stands
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