Show ENQUIRIES rt ang ng utah august 31 1907 conor deseret farmer I 1 have ave heard reports f he kofford or ancient mound V jhc ht t that is raised a great deal in southern utah has it been raised much in the northern part of the state slate and how does it compote with the gold coin wheat what mat has licen been the result of the ex pediment peri ment at the agricultural college it if they have experimented with it please answer in next assue and oblige CW RICHARDS ANSWER BY EDITOR yes it has been raised in the north end of our state but not to such an extent as in the juab county region there it is undoubtedly the leading try dry farm ariely ari ety the government experiments in depth time manner of seeding are being conducted at neph and are all being carried on with kofford in regard to its merits as compared with gold coin wheat I 1 think it is a superior variety for dry farm purposes it yields just as heavily and toes does not shell nearly so easily the utah experiment station recommend it is as one of the best varieties and the results at the experimental peri mental forms farms place it among the heaviest wielders yi elders the wheat that has yielded more heavily straight through is turkey As regards its origin I 1 think the mound tale belongs in the fairy class at the he michigan experiment station experiments were conducted to test the age of which seeds lost their germinating mina ting power most host ot of those tried dropped out it at under forty years now forty years is rather brief compared comi with ditl i the length ot of time since the mound builders occupied their little eastern suites of rooms in our southern country if kofford wheat has retained its germinating powers through the hundred or of years that have elapsed since the little mound builders played spats arid and spurs in their little bad back yards it ought to be classed among book agents one theory has been advanced which sounds good the theory is that the wheat was carried into the mounds by b y squirrels it if it came from the mo monads anas at all it undoubted undoubtedly lly got there i recently by some such agency deseret farmer |