Show GROWING AND MARKETING WHEAT the farmers of utah have permitted an inroad of wild oets oats land weeds of various kinds until our wheat Is coni ordered ofa very inferior quality when it gets to market it Is not the wheat itself 1 but its foulness that works the detriment to it the next difficulty we have io 10 getting seed of one kind and keeping ow our crops seniar abed one particular kind of wheat that has been grown very successfully here is the new zeal zealand and it has haa been a surprise that such a demand bam been made for it the odessa Is ie also considered a very valuable wheat but the mixture of it with other varieties works a detriment prices range from one to five cents a bushel more for straight grades gra des than for mixed so S 0 tt ft is an advantage to keep the different kinds ot of grain separate the odesm is a very good but it is not called first grade wheat in the western market local millers claim it is one of the highest grades of wheat the blue stem is in demand but we have never yet y e t raised enough of it to be ame able to find any number of straight cars of that th at kind the winter fife silver chaff and other grades ai are also inquired atter after but the one in particular demand the past season has been the new zealand it has been demonstrated in the past three years that the man who can sack his wheat in the field and int pu it on the cars immediately is the best off the success of the wheat growers lies ites largely in the grading of their wheat it has beci become 0 fekn known 0 wm the that t U utah tah wh wheat t is of very good quality when clean but some of our wheat is biot first clasi no doubt if it was graded the che highest market price could be obtained for it but as longas we mix all kinds of wheat together and fall fail to keep the wind oats out we will never get the best price the only way that I 1 see tor for the farmers to obviate this difficulty Is the cultivation of the land and the ra tation of crops ini in some way thal destroying ying the weeds that are so soe same our experience in cleaning grain taking the bibish ru from it goes to prove that some farmers have no idd ot of the amount of dirt contained therein the seeds olf of various kinds I 1 notice are carried by the winds two years ago ej a neighbor had a piece of ground from which he be took out all the weeds weede raised a little corn on it and ancl kept it cleall the next year he planted it iri in wheat but in the early season we had a very heavy wind from the east I 1 took no thought of it at the time but I 1 noticed that when his crop ame up he be next year he could not see the wheat for wild oata his land vms ata just as bad as around him this proved that winds carry the seeds and that th aft the dry favis are in hi the same danger dagg er as irrigated farms grain carl can not no t be marketed with any kind of weed seeds in it without the buyer to it and desiring de sizing to discount weights in order to lo market grain to the it besl advantage f farmers maist of necessity do all they can to preserve its cleanliness increased demand for our grain Is 18 our great need cleanliness djoni aone will insure this thia orton smith in denver plead and warm |