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Show WHEAT ON DRY FARM Elucstcm and Fife Varieties of Hard Spring Unsafe. Durum, Introduced From Southeatern Rurtla Where Rainfall I Light, Adapted to Climate of Western Wes-tern Plains Area. la a larpo part of tho dry funning territory I ho bluestetn and life varle lies of hard sprint; wheat are very imsafo crops Whore broad wheats can lie grown, tho Hod Fife, selected sttalrm known as Johnson's l-'lle. (ioldeil Fife, etc., lire Rood yleldeiH and Iho berry Is usually plump and hard. The millers, howeur, have placed thesn varlelh s In a market class doslcnated an velvet chaff, and tho price In a few cents lower per liushel than tho bhicii'etii varieties brlnK. These latter Include both boarded arid bald types, writes Man by Chrtinplln In tho Farmer and ltreodor. The variety known lis pedl creed Milt-stem lias jrlven rooi ro suits nt the 1 1 ifliniofe SuliHtatlon ns reported In F.ullelln II. of the South I I 1 kt it ; Fpel iliient ftntlnt! This sta j lltui Is fltu'iti d near the eastern bor-j bor-j dor of the dry farming belt, j Very little w Infer wheat Is grown , t present, but Its early iiii ii'ni4 and food iiiillly and yield of grain ate Interesting many of Iho progressive farmers who haw obtained some veiv good results. The Minnesota station advises lis use only spard g'y. Five Hen s Is ronsldt red enough to s'art With. If It proves to be Well suited to your conditions the aereag-i can bo Increased. Tlnfc Is danger of w inter HIMng, and loo mm h dein tub mo ihould not bo placed on Ihis crop Turkey 1 1 d mid Kharkov are tho com let rel.i! Varieties grown WV.vro bread wheat Is grown with dlC'ctill ', Nature roines to tho rescue res-cue wl'h the bard macaroni or durum wheats. 1 mil very roomily tin re was dl'Veulty la marketing this class of ! wheat ami evin today the price Is 10 j to "0 pi r ci tit loner than for hard jitrlcg wlnatu t.f tie bread vi'rlo'les This fact l:i prob'ildv due In the Ami r ban love of white bread. The durum l-ei-t four makes a palatable, nutritious nutri-tious bread, but the yt Tow rn'iir has been ln e''ied iigiim-t by faMtliflmis iiutoiii. I!i:!!e;ia No 3 of the bure-ui of plant Ialustry give nn Interesting hb-tory of the trial tho durum wheal glower has bad to overcome, as well as advlco ns to how lo plant, otr Theso wheals wero Introduced from (toiithonMern Hussln, whoro tho rainfall rain-fall Is light and tho changes of temperature tem-perature severo. They nro, thereforo. adapted to tho clltnato of thu western plain nra. In deserlhlriK tho rbnrnetorlsMon of mscnronl or durum whoit Mr. M. A. Carlton Bays In the iihovo mentioned luilletlh: "Tho wheats of this group grow rather tall and hnvo a'otns that nro cither pithy within or hollow. . . . The leaves aro usually broad and smooth, but hnvo a peculiar whitish green color and possess an otlremely harsh cuticle. Tho bends are comparatively com-paratively slender In most varieties, compactly formed, occasionally very short, and aro always bearded with tho longest beards known to wheat. " Tho peculiar ability of tho durum wheats lo resist drought Slid severe changes of tenifiernturo ns well as (heir early ripening qualities and high yielding capacity make thorn especially espe-cially fitted for the needs of tho dry farmer. Hero Is a money crop of which ho Is practically sure. Tho yields vary from 10 to HT. bushels per in'io. The Kiibank.i and Arnautka varieties va-rieties hnvo given tho best results In this section. I'mtuer Is wbbly grown ns a sub stltute feed grain where oats nro an uncertain crop. It bus not Iho feed lug value of outs, Juil when ground makes a f.ililv good feed for nny farm stock. Tho chaff ( lings to the grain v ben threshed, thus giving the crop gn at hulk. There Is not an es!abllh od market and farmers rarely grow i' nro than enough for their own feed. The yields varv from no to t0 bushels HO bilng c(in-lder d a fair yield. Km incr Is lommon'y called Hpcltx. |