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Show .--pied. Utah farmers '. irrigate" too ej frequently. Experiments .cover-. .cover-. I ipg six , years show that' best re-r re-r suits have been obtained from one irrigation in spring. This', facti should be emphasized. More . thorough- cultivation and less ; irrigation will give best .results in wheat growing. , Late sowing in the fall has given better results,, on the J average, for three seasons, than early sowing. The difference in I yield of both straw and grain be- tween drilling and broadcasting, iis marked, "and decidedly favors i drilling for fall seeding-. . 1:ington and Granite were th heaviest croppers, averaging 20. 99, 2075 and.2o!64 bushels pei ij acre respectively. , 1 v : ,, Of the fall wheats Sonora, Ear-ley Ear-ley Red Clawson and Red Cross are promising varieties, their aver-ages.in aver-ages.in a two 'year test being 24. 36, 20.32 and 20.08 bushels per acre respectivfly.Xofthouse or Winter Win-ter La Salle, Odessa and Camp bell's White - Chaff, : were" the heaviest yielders of those varieties which had been tested fouror more years,, averaging 17.32,, 17 20and 1 Six pecks so wn broadcast gave j better results than eight pecks. 1 16.64 bushelsper acre respectively J in the four-year test;The two first t named stand. next; to' Sonora in the two-year test with averages 0( 22,67 and 21.62, I Of the wheats, the New Zealand, Zea-land, seems to be in greatest; demand .for export, but unfortunately unfortun-ately it is one of the poorest yielders, yield-ers, averaging only 10. 68 bushels in a two year test. I 3 .. . - . The station experimented with various amounts of seed from 2 to! M 10 pecks, .and the tests cover ! ) eight years of work and the results re-sults are believed to ba fairly con-1 con-1 1 elusive. The planting was done , with a drill, and to correct any difference in the fertility of the plats, the treatments were alternated alter-nated yenr by year. The largest yields of grain and straw were j obtained from two pecks of seed and 10 pecks of seed. Two pecks of seed yielded an average of 19 53 bushels of grain arid 1 ,701 pounds of straw Ten pecks yielded 18.91 ' bushels of grain and i.SSopounds j of straw. '" : , The Utah st itwn has also conducted con-ducted six year experimental test in irrigating the wheat crop. Irrigating wheat in ' the" : fall, . j exceptwhen necessary to start! growth, was rather detrimentalj and; at best did not pay for the ! THE BEST SEED WHEAT. The Utah experiment station has -33r a number of years, been contracting con-tracting a series of experiments in a-'" growi.g, and the. Jessohs learned therefiom, are of great vil-ae to the Utah, farmer. Too asuy of our farmers take - it for rztited that wheat is wheat,' and long as the seed is in good con-'sSitionand con-'sSitionand clean, too little. thought. as j;tven to varieties best suited 2or grain growing conditions in 5Jtelu But there is "scrub" wheat :asthere is "scrub" cattle. N01 trouble and expense, ,.and one irrigation in the spring, or during the growing season, was found to -produce the best average yield under Cache valley conditions. Three irrigations increased the ' amount of straw but only : to a' slight extent. Tests were also made as to the j value of rolling the seed bed both before and after seeding, and the conclusion was reached that on land similar to : that of the college farm, which is.-light and some what gravelly, rolling doe.- ,w iodern dairy man would think of "doing business with "scrub" cows, -so no wheat grower should under-taice under-taice to grow, the staff of life with asytlwng short of the best seed to ic obtained. ' Tiie yield of 16 varieties spring -wheat, produced ; at the station Skrai, all grown under like conditions con-ditions as to planting, soil culture, -and irrigation as given . in tke j Utah station bulletin, No. 56, -varied from 18.53 to 39 bushels pay. Ordinarily, rolling after seeding seed-ing hastens germination in dry weather, as it brings moisture .to the. surface, by compacting, the soil but in wet weather it is believed be-lieved that the . roller would be detrimental. . The conclusions arrived at in 8 years of experimenting in wheat growing at the Utah station may thus be summarized: ' The spring wheat recommended recommend-ed are Niagara, Whitington, Granite, Nr. 53 and Gilling mixture. mix-ture. The fall wheats recommended,' Sseracre in the best ye,ar, l896,and from 6.66 to ?6.66 bushels in a gpcr wheat year, 1892. In fall w&eats the yield ranged from 14.-11 14.-11 to 33-39 lu. per acre in 1896 J '5Sd from 8.33 to 22.99 in 1897. I le average yield in a six year 6tof spring wheat ranged from 4.72 bubhels per acre for Ontario ; T.eat to 25 5 for common wheat, r. Jiririg' ilxture being '1 he next highest yiclder,2S. 56 bushels. As 'Efiese two varieties have been test-but test-but two years it is uncertain! -h-Cdicr they will continue the' ?ies'c yielders. Of the varieties test-( are the Lofthouse (Winter La Salle), Sonoi-a, early Red Claw-son Claw-son and Red cross. Best results are obtained from seeding 2 pecks per acre (when sown by . a drill' at a uniform depth). . . fall irrigation isn't axemen- |