South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-12-16
HOT WATER METHOD
is NOT INJURIOUS TO
.SEEDLIN WHEAT
IL Properly Done, a Larger
Yield May Be Expected
When Treated.

The reason some farmers do not
treat their wheat with. hot water
Is because they fear that the treat
mCnt will kill the seed. Ray CAS-
Kill. a farmer near Frankfort, had
an experience this year with treated
" heat which seems 10 dispel this
l. "A. Here is how Mr.. Gaskill told
his own story to c. T. Gregory OF
the Purdue university agricultural
extension department.
Il set ND my treating apparatus
on one OF my farms. using a large
water trough for tank and thresh-
ing engine for the steam. had To
buy $50 worth OF pipes and valves
end used wood TO fire the boiler SC
the steam did not cost me anything
] treated IS bushels of wheat be
tween p. m. and p. m. Oct. 6.
Just as we were finishing tho
treating Il commenced TO rain and
drew the wheat 10 another farm
where could dry 1t in the barn. We
went through the heaviest rain
ever saw and when ! got home al
Z o'clock. 1 was a young Niagara
Fails myself Well, I thought that
the wheat was too wet 10 spread
out so / set the sacks In the barr
to drain till the next day" (By the
way, this was mistake number one
this wheat should have been spread
out at once.)
1.-The next morning spread the
seed out in a drive way, but the
space was not large enough and the
wheat was about six inches deep, buI
we stirred il over with a rake four
or five times a day. II was rainS
and cloudy all the time while tbs
wheat was trying 20 dry but or
Monday. oct. 3, I managed to ge'
five acres soWn, but was again rain
ed out till oct. "A.
The wheat had lain on TIE floor
eight DAYS before ] could get IL ir
tho ground. It had terminated Sc
that the sprouts were Is TO Ia O.
an inch long \ lot Of the seed has
whIskers OF mold and you could
pick up clumps held together will
this mold. I sowed this wheat will
a force feed drill and had no trou
| bic at all. 1 meant TO put the Al
bushels in % acres. but only got il
% bushels. The other 10 bushels
dried ont completely and sold 4
to the leva;or for 81 Is per bus hel
! To tell the truth was very mucl
afraid OF the wheat after this rougi
treatment, but I can't see that tn,
stand on my treated field is any dit
ferent than my other 35 acres OF un
treated wheat"
DR.. Gregory and County Agent V
! ]. Mann examined Mr.. Gasl;ilIi
wheat and found about as nearly {
perfect stand as is possible 10 have
Mr.. Mann took some OF this sprouteC
wheat TO his office. dried it on
completely over the radiator anC
sent il 20 purdue to be tested fol
! termination. The report was % l..
percent termination"
/ may be wrong. but II looks I,
me as IL there are lots easier ant
surer ways of killing wheat than b.
! the hot water treatment For IN
/ stance the method of killing cock
reaches might work: namely, lay tn
4 wheat between two bricks and the,
! hit tho top brick with a sledge
/ There is not a farmer in Indian,
who could not safely treat his whea
4 Every farmer who does not treat hi
wheat or buy seed from treate,
fields is causing trouble in tw,
ways. He is storing up a lot 10
/ himself and his field OF wheat vii
be a center OF trouble for his neigh
| bOrs