The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1920-12-18
PLANT BIG ACREAGE
OF KANRED WHEAT
MORE THAN 1000 ACRES OF
WHEAT PROPAGATED IN
KANSAS NEAR LEWISTON.
(LeWiston Tribune.) J

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Lewiston has been the distribu-
ting point this season for the intro
duction of the new Kanred wheat
Two carloads, about 1000 bushels
were received here. Most of this has
been distributed by the Idaho Pure
Seed company, considerable guam
tity also being sent out by the Vel
mer-Clearwater company, the amount
distributed being enough to seed 1000
acres or more. The seeding has al
ready been done, as the Kanred is a
hard winter wheat.
The early maturity of this wheat
recommends it in this locality, where
few days often make the difference
between good crop and a poor crop,
moisture being the limiting factor in
the raising of Turkey wheat. Tests
made here in this season show that
Kanred is high in gluten, the per cent
being 46, while other kinds showed
36 per cent
Kanred wheat originated from
single head, selected in 1900 from
field of Turkey, wheat grown at the
Kansas experiment station 1t was
first distributed in small amounts to
farmers in 1914. About 1000 acres
were grown in 1918, $4,000 acres IN
1919 and 100000 in 1920. This fall,
approximately 100000 bushels were
sown in Kansas
In Kansas this new variety prom
ises to add from 25,O00,000 to no.
100000 bushels to the annual crop
without extra expense to the grow
ers, and to replace 80 percent of the
wheat now grown in that state. 1t
is expected to prove superior to the
varieties commonly grown in those
portions of Texas, Oklahoma, Colo
RADIO, Nebraska, South Dakota. Mon
tana, Idaho, Iowa and illinois where
hard winter wheat now is grown.
Kanred is said to owe it's superior
ity, not to larger heads, larger grain,
or more grains per spiklet or mesh,
but to it's ability to cope with un-
favorable conditions that conspire to
reduce the prospective yield of wheat |
in many places. 1t is early, and
therefore escapes some of the dam
age from hot winds and drouth,
which are regular in the hard winter
wheat belt. 1t is resistant to rust |
to degree not possessed by any other |
winter wheat, and is less easily kill |
ed or injured by cold or winter-kill-
ing than other varieties. In a nine
year test at the Kansas experiment !
station, Kanred has produced, on the
the average, four bushels more than !
Turkey Red and Kharkof, the two I
varieties generally grown in the
state and the wheats previously |
recommended by the best authorities |
Turkey wheat was brought into
Kansas nearly so years ago, and
proved its superiority by gradually
replacing all other varieties About |
25 years later, Kharkof was intro
duced by the United States depart
nent of agriculture, after a careful |
search for superior varieties in all
The important wheat-growing coun-
5ries of the world
1t is not claimed that Kanred will |
give satisfactory yields outside of
The winter wheat belt. 1t will not
give good results in the eastern part
If the United States nor in much of
,he Pacific coast states, where club
vheats are generally grown
AS to the milling quality of Kan
ed, expert chemical analysis and
oaking tests have failed to reveal /
my marked differences between that
yariety and the Turkey. 1t appears
hat, as far as quality is concerned,
Aanred is identical with Turkey and |.
zharkof. Owing to the demand for
'eed, very little Kanred has yet
cached the central or milling mar
lets
The next crop of Kanred will prob
IDLY be large enough to give it gen.
'ral distribution and a more com
'lete test as to productiveness, mill
ng quality and adaptability to eli
natic conditions The next crop
will be the first test of Kanred in
daho and particularly in the Lewis
on country.
1t is notable fact that Idaho is
apidly coming to the front as a pure
eed producing state, the climate in
many parts being favorable to the
rowing of field and garden seed
rops
Manager Wade, of the Idaho Pure
iced company, states that in his re- |
ent visit to southern Idaho he noted f,
hat the rainy fall weather had pre-
ented the harvesting of clover and l
Italia seed and that much of it may /
ot be threshed until next spring.
he sugar beet crop he found to be
ne of the best in that part of the S
tate i