The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1922-08-02
FARM EXTRACTS
INFORMATION ExPE RDfENT STATION - AGRICUI-
TURA1 PAPERS AND THE COUNTY AGENTS OFFICE
HE ExPE RIsfENT

siderable Fultz wheat Is grown, ac-
tual counts made this summer
showed that wheat seed purchased
under the name of Fultz contained
as much as 30 per cent bearded
wheat whereas Futlz is not bearded.
In the Purchase section of West
ern Kentucky, where carlots of
wheat seed are purchased from
Missouri, the inspection showed
that fields sown with seed supposed
to be pure Fultz contained 80 to 40 /
per cent bearded red chat and
about 20 per cent bearded white
chaff. OF the remaining 40 to so
per cent, at least half of it was
found to be smooth red chaff wheat.
"In Todd, Christian and Logan
counties, located in Southwestern
Kentucky where Gill wheat is popu-
lar, this variety, although perhaps
pure at one time, was found to con-
tain Sc per cent smooth red chaff
wheat of which one-half or more
was of an early May variety.
Harvesting Speeding Up Interest In
Cover Crops
Interest in the use of cover crops
to protect fields from erosion and
teaching during the winter con-
tinues to grow in many sections of
the State as the Kentucky harvest
season progresses and fields are
left bare, according to r. f.
Stephenson. extension specialist in
soils from the College of Agricul-
ture. Galloway county farmers are
the most recent ones to join the
movement, plans having been start
ed in that county to have every to-
bacco field covered with q growing
crop during the winter. Rye will
be used in practically all cases ex-
cept where wheat is grown as a
regular farm crop and seeded after
tobacco. Farmers in the county
who never before had used cover
crops last year seeded 1000 acres
of rye for this purpose and an at
tempt will be made this year to
have the acreage increased.
Every bare field should be seed
ed in the fall to some crop that will
protect the soil from erosion and
teaching during the winter" Mr..
Stephenson says. The more slop-
ing the land and the looser the soil
the greater will be the need for
protection of this kind.
Tobacco fields furnish good
example of the kind that are parti-
cularly in need of some growing
crop for protection during the win
ter. Tobacco is carefully cultivated,
not a weed is allowed to grow and
the soil is left fine and mellow. When
fall and winter rains come, the water
flows unretarded over the mellow
surface taking with it the rich sur
face soil that contains the manure
and fertilizers which were applied to
the growing TOBACCO crop,
much of this loss can be pre-
vented by seeding a fall crop such
as wheat, barley or winter oats
which are successfully grown in
certain sections of the State. Rye
and vetch, and sometimes crimson
clover, also are used successfully.
Rye is extremely dependable and
when seeded with vetch makes an
unsurpassed covering regardless OF
whether or not it is used for graz
, ing or later turned under as green
manure. One bushel of rye and 10
TO 20 pounds of vetch an acre is
good rate of seeding.
In order to do the best work i'll
saving plant food, the cover crop
must be seeded as early as possible.
This makes it possible to save the
plant food that would otherwise be
lost through the action of the warm
fall rains"