The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1920-10-04
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Gather Your Seed Corn Early.

though the corn crop in Kentucky
promises to be the best in years vet
because Of the late spring and cool
summer and recent. wet weather an
early frost will mean fifty per cent.
or more of soft and sappy corn on the
farms of Kentucky this year. There
fore the prospects are good that the
farmer who does not gather and dry
his seed corn early this fall will have
in the spring of 1921 the same situa-
ton as he had in the spring of 1918
For care and selection of seed corn
write the Experiment Station for Cir
cular No. 10.
A New Wheat For Kentucky.
AS result of number of years
wor kin breeding wheat the Kentucky
Experiment Station announces the de-
velopment of new variety of wheat
which has been named ashland 1t
is a section from Fultz which variety
it closely resembles. 1t has all the
good qualities Of this old well known
sort, but has sitter straw and at the
station has proved to be a somewhat
better yielder. 1t has also been sin
gularly free from scab and other dis
eases of wheat. This year the station
has furnished a number of selected
farmers in Kentucky with seed of Ash
land and the crops grown frow this
will be sold for seed in 1921. Several
thousand bushels of seed ought there
fore, to be available for distribution in
the staate,
Apply Acid Phosphate on Wheat Crop.
On all the soils in Kentucky outside
of the Blue Grass region, wheat re-
spends to acid phosphate. treatment
very remarkably. Fortunately, the
wheat crop is the most convenient
place in rotation to apply acid phos-
phate as 1t can be applied through the
fertilizer distributing attachment on
the wheat drill with small amount Of
extra labor Apply the acid phosphate
at the rate of from 200 to 300 pounds
per acre and the succeeding clover
and corn or other crops will be bene-
fitted also
Hot Water Treatment For Loose Smut.
! In many instances loose smut, or
as tits generally known to farmers,
blasted heads of wheat, cause consid-
cradle loss. AS 1t does not affect the
quality of the grain the losses are not
appreciable, but sometimes they range
as high as ten per cent
Loose smut canno be controlled by
formalin or bluestone treatment as the
smut spore has terminate and grown
into tn seed and it exists there as a
tiny Smut plant. 1t can be destroyed
only by a treatment known as the mod
flied hot water treatment. This treat
ment is rather difficult to give, and 1t
is too expensive for the treatment of
seed for the entire crop 1t is prac-
teal, however. to use it in treating
enough seed for seed plot. The treat
ment is as follows:
Soak the wheat in cold water for
four to six hours, but not more than
six hours. Then dip for moment in
water at temperature Of 120 degrees
Then trasfer to water at 129 degrees
and leave for ten minutes. Dip imme-
diately in cold water; then spread and
dry. Use about half bushel of wheat
each time, and put in a basket or
coarse sack. Have thermometer and
arrange to that the water can be kept
at the exact temperature indicated
In no case should the temperature ex-
coed 1873 degrees and then the time oil
treatment should be reduced. Some
grain will be injured and 1t Is best to
SOW about 90 per cent more of the
treated seed Treat only enough for
a special seed patch. AS loose smut is
carried by the wind for considerable
distance, the seed patch should be o
separate field some distance from the
main wheat field.
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