The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1919-08-26
Recommends. New Variety
For The Farmers OF Knox
County This Year
PORTAGE VARIETY
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
Gives The List Of Farmers In
This County Who Are.
Growing This Wheat


smut and other diseases in the wheat
this year, for which the scientists
have not yet thought out mode of
control, the farmers of this county as
well as all over the state are asking
for new varieties of wheat or asking
the advice of their agents as to
whether or not they shall plant the
crop next year. In the case of plant
ing the agent usually tells the man to
plant wheat on his farm. but fire.
quently advises him to change the
variety of his seed. New seed may
defeat the aims of the diseases that
are rampant on the fields in aues.
ton, and by the passing of two or
three seasons the disease may have
been eliminated.
The effect of the disease on the
wheat of Knox county this year was
to produce shrinkage, and a scabbi-
ness, which has been very detriment.
al to the sale Of the product. The
farmers do not desire to plant this
seed and hence the men of the
county who were lucky to have good
wheat this harvest have been besieg-
ed on all sides for seed wheat. They
are offered the market price plus the
cost of cleaning and the cost of
threshing the grain, which is entire
ly reasonable. And those who have
good wheat over the county have
been very good in cleaning it and
getting it ready for these who need it
for their fields.
) A check made on the wheat of this
county shows that the general run OF
the crop over the county is very mix
ed and has been encouraged by care
lessness in threshing. Farmers thresh
oats before the wheat without clean
ing the machine or the floors. They
do the same with rye, and the result
is dirty seed, and impure But there
are few farmers that take great
care in selecting and threshing their
wheat, and from whom others NAV
feel perfectly safe in bying.
County Agent Mr.. S. l.. Anderson
recommends varieties that have stood
the tests at the experimentation and
have produced the best in Ohio soils
under all conditions native to the
soil. These he calls the pure line
! seeds. and they have been started
from taking a perfect head and grow
| m on inn l..
til there has been raised enough pure
: seed for the seeding of entire port
. ions of the state
! One of these varieties is Portage
J wheat which is especially adapted to
the lOwlands. where the soil is rich
and fertile. This is proving to be one
of the best varieties for this state
and the farmers almost to a man
who have adopted it have retained it
as their preference over all that they
have raised heretofore. Farmers who
; are growing this wheat in this county
are, George Hays. George Purdy, John
Cunningham, of Gambler and Pratt
l Ward of Mt Vernon. These men can
| perhaps accommodate farmers who
: are seeking to get start in Portage
, wheat
; Trumble wheat grown from Fultz
has proven about the best hill variety
, and is highly praised by many farm
ers. Mr. Clark lies. Fredericktown is
one of the large growers of this var
, iety, and will have some wheat for
sale for seeding purposes. His crop
this year was 30 bushels per acre on
an area of AZ acres.
Ohio No. l27 is another variety
that is very popular in this county a.
mong the newer kinds that have been
tried and adopted. Mr.. Russell Sell
ers, Morgan township. is one of the
foremost growers of this variety of
wheat, and he has still some left for
seed purposes He has not yet
threshed this year but his crop last
r year was 80 bushels per acre. This
wheat is adaptable TO most any kind
of soil and is to be recommended to
the farmers of Knox county.