The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1920-07-15
MILLION ACRES
IN SUPER
Enormous Acreage in Central
Westto Be Planted in New /
and Better Grade 81
Golden Grain.

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Manhattan Kan. July 1s.-MiiIlons
of acres in the central west will be
planted this year with a super wheat
which Yields from three to five
bushels an acre more than varieties
e now grown. s@f
The super-wheat is kanred, devel-
oped through IA years of careful ex-
perimentation from single head
brought from Russia-8.!It promises
completely to replace varieties now
grown in the he sas-ss: c::s.: ss;1 ssas,s and
to increase materially the grain pro-
ductionr OF thescounlry. &. "a s,u
Use to Become General.
Approximately 100000 acres were
seeded with kanred last fall. IL ethe
pure seed from this harvest is plant
ed next fall, the acreage will be $780,
GOO or 100000. and after that it is
believed that use of the, new variety
will become general. The Kansas
Crop Improvement Association, com
posed of 500 farmers. is, endeaxoring
to have all the pure seed replanted
1t is expected a fourth of the hard
wheat acreage in Kansas, and large
acreages in Oklahoma. Texas, Ne
braska, Wyoming. Colorado and
South Dakota will be sown, with kan
red. Eventually kanred will be grown
universally in the hard wheat coun-
try. in the opinion of specialists at
the Kansas experiment. station here,
where the new variety was developed
Demonstrates Its Superiority.
Turkey or kharkof are the two va
rieties of hard wheat most commonly
grown, and kanred has demonstrated
its superiority TO these. 1t has been
successfully grown in every state of
the hard wheat belt, and is confident
ly believed by experiment station
workers to be better than any other
variety grown as far north as South
Dakota
The new wheat is somewhat more
resistant to winterkilling. cnarac-
tertistic that particularly recommends
it for the northern part of the hard
wheat belt. Winter wheat yields
higher than spring wheat when it
resists the long and cold seasons of
that region.
kanred Resists Rust.
Prior to the development of kanred
there was no variety Of common
one of the worst enemies of the grain.
Millions Of bushels have been lost in
a single season as a result of this dis
ease. The peculiar breeding OF kan
red has made it remarkably resistant
to red rust or leaf rust.
The early maturing qualities OF
kanred make it peculiarly adapted to
the dry farming region of which a
large part of the hard wheat belt is
composed. Shriveled grains often
result from ripening of hare wheat by
hot weather before the berry has
fully matured.
Milling qualities equal to other
varieties are claimed for kanred Only
an expert can tell the difference in
the appearance Of it and other va
rieties. Last season carload of
kanred grown in Colorado topped the
Minneapolis market. Samples of kan
red have been mfllsd in the Kansas
state agricultural college mill every
year since the wheat was developed,
but no difference has been observed
between it and either turkey or khar-
kof
Plan to Keep Seed Pure.
The single parent head of wheat,
selected from a variety brought to
America from Russia by the United
States department of agriculture, was
planted with several hundred others
at the Kansas agricultural experiment
station in 1906. Every year thereafter
large number of heads were selected
from the field. Grain from each head
was planted in single row. harvest
ed separately. and studied carefully.
By elimination from year to year
all but three Of the most promising
varieties had been discarded by 1914
These three were tried from 1914 to
1917. One of them was found to have
poor milling qualities. Another was
not resistant to rust. The third was
kanred.
In 1918, $4,000 acres were seeded to
the new species. Pure seed from this
crop was used in planting the 100000
acres Of kanred last fall. An especial
effort is being made by the crop i'm
provement associat ion to keep the
seed pure, and for that reason lists
Of farmers having pure seed for sale
this summer is kept at the expert
ment station.