Show BEST SEED WILL INCREASE WHEAT Good Goad Variety Suited to Local I Conditions Will Add to 1919 Liberty Harvest AVOID NOXIOUS WEED SEED Best to Get That Kind Which Has Been Grown Continuously In the Locality for Some Time Time Early Early Seeding Is Favored Pr Prepared by the United States Department Depart Depart- Dep Department t- t ment of or Agriculture Many l bushels can cnn be added to the thel l 1919 1910 10 Liberty wheat harvest harest and farmers farmers farmers farm farm- ers can cau reap added profits from Increased increased In In- creased yields with no more than the usual labor or 01 expense If the variety of seed sown this fall Is pure and ana is well adapted to the locality The seed should be free from noxious weed seeds and not Infested by destructive plant diseases It should be clean plump and heavy If there Is doubt about what variety produces th the best yields In a given locality the tile grower should consult his county agent state agricultural college or write to the United States department of ture Washington Use Home Grown Seed Home-grown Home wheat should be bc used for seed wherever possible The best seed to get is that flint of an adapted variety van vari ety which has been grown continuous continuous- I i 1 yf A Seed Plat From Which Best Yielding Yielding Yield Yield- ing Varieties Can Be Obtained ly In the locality for some time provided provided pro pro- vided It Is pure The Idea that varieties varieties varieties varie varie- ties run out I if grown long in one section Is only an expression for the fact fad that they are allowed to become mixed and weed weedy and disease Changing the kind of at wheat grown should be done only for the purpose I of getting a proved better variety ItIs It Itis Itis is often desirable to do this provided it Is demonstrated beyond question that the new variety is better for that locality So-called So new varieties extravagantly extravagantly extravagantly gantly advertised ad at fancy prices should be disregarded completely The varieties recommended by the state experiment stations or other authorities authorities ties for the several districts within a state or region are the ones which should be grown In Kansas for example example example ex ex- ample the an improved strain of Crimean wheat Is grown in place of ot the Turkey and The introduction of at these hard red winter Into the Columbia basin of Oregon and Washington and elsewhere in the Pacific northwest has increased yield and quality of the wheat produced Poorer varieties are being displaced rapidly See Seed in Field The best way ay to be he sure that the seed wheat is free from mixture with other varieties and also from weeds and amI diseases is to inspect the growing field Each farmer should do this in iii his own fields and neighborhood When his own variety Is not well adapted or otherwise of good quality he ho should Inspect fields of adapted varieties grown b by sonie sonic of his neighbors and arrange e to obtain seed from them after threshing In many Instances he lie can arrange to have special care given to this field at threshing time In order to prevent mixture Such care cure is especially espe espe- dally desirable this year car when tho supply of oC seed wheat retained on the farms probably is smaller than even before S Seeding with a drill alwa always s is advis advis- able In general early seeding gives better results than late Inte seeding Where there is danger from the Hessian fi fly flythe flythe the time of seeding should b bo be in accordance nci act with the best advice e given gi on this subject for each section of th the the- countr country A chart showing the wheat sowing dates to thwart the Hessian fly fir may be obtained from the United States department of agriculture a at Washington I |