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Show suit. Then where no grain grows opportunity op-portunity ki afforded for -weeds to spring up which a heavy growth of grain will keep down. Therefore aow heavily with clean and perfect grain. . Much Inferior grain has been raised In Millard County the past season, Much of It Is shrunken and chipped! The mills have rejected much of It, declaring It was fit only for hog" feed. It Is feared that some of this grain will be put on the market and offered at a cheap price for aeed grain. Th! newcomers at Delta, not being ac- qualnted with this condition of things and our peculiar aoll may be easily deceived de-ceived Into buying ar.d sowing it. It would pay the holders of such grain to use or sell It for hog feed and buy only the best for seed, even If they pay a little more for It As one farmer oWnred. "The best Is none too good." We recognize this In stock. Let us be Just as particular In our seeds. It takes aa much Urns to plow, plant, Irrigate and reap a crop that yields only 15 bushels to the acre as one that yields CO bushels, and the difference In cost may be only the few cents per bushel the seed for the bar-vest bar-vest cost. Again, It has been demonstrated tbst the best seed to sow on a farm Is that which has been grown In that locality. lo-cality. Environment stamps Its quality on seeds as on other product. prod-uct. Grain grown here has adapted itself to the environment of the soli, climate and even water of this section. Therefore, the best grain grown here Is the best seed to sow here. Conditions around Delta are different differ-ent than those elsewhere, and however how-ever experienced a farmer may be farming elsewhere Tie will find that he has much to learn here. It Is a common com-mon saying among old farmers here, "I had to learn It all over again." But when be has once learned the conditions condi-tions of successful farming here no country In the world will give the Intelligent, In-telligent, Industrious farmer a larger return for bis labor. Let the slogan of the .Delta, farmer ,t.hta spring 3 "Let us sow our own seed and sow the best" . OBSERVER. SOW THE BEST. A few daya ago the writer was shown a sample of wheat that waa offered of-fered on the market for seed wheat. Out of a handful of 100 grains I found only about 30 full, plump kernels. The balance were shrunken, split or unformed, un-formed, while cockle and tumble weed seed were found In abundance. The price asked was the same as for perfect per-fect seed wheat. . Realizing that "aa you sow o shall you reap," what kind of a crop would a farmer reap who sowed such seed, lis would get a poor harvest of wheat with plenty of weeds. Nothing put pure bred stock will satisfy the progressive pro-gressive farmer of today, and tig prlcea are willingly paid for them. The result Is seen In the splendid Per-cheron Per-cheron and Shire horses, tb Holstein and Jeraey cow and the pure bred hogs, and the results justify the heavy expenditures. What Is true of pure bred stock Is true of seed of all kinds. The writer has lesrned from sad experience that -like begets like.; The flrat year he planted on bis farm good clean seed carefully selected from'a farm where cockle weed and tumble weed were unknown. un-known. The result was tlast be harvested harv-ested a good crop of clean oats and wheat The next year be waa less careful and got bis seed from a neighbor neigh-bor where tumble weed and cockle grew galore. He did not have time to take It to the mill and have it cleaned. The result at harvest time waa a field covered with tumble weed, threatening the entire destruction of the crop. Then the grain ripened at different times; some of the stalks I were tall, aome medium and" some ao short the knife of the binder would barely cut It and leav It on the ground to waste. The crop harvested from IS to 20 bushels to the acre Instead In-stead of 30 or 40 bushels as It should bave done had t be seed been clean and perfect, and aa some of his neighbors neigh-bors barveated. Tbe condition of soil, water and climate wer the same in hla neighbors. neigh-bors. . Investigation showed that his neighbor bad planted plump, even kernels of grain carefully cleaned In a fanning mill. Hla average was 40 bushels to tb acre. Hla seed being clean and perfect had produced a clean field of perfect grain with a Urge yield. Let us take another view of It li out of th 100 kernels from the sample sam-ple referred to only about 30 perfect kernels are found It follow that not more than CO per cent of th grain would germinate at all. The farmer Is thus sowing only about half th grain a thinks he Is. He will therefore bsrvest only about half as much as be should, besides bsvlng It Infested with weeds. Perhaps that Is one reason rea-son why so many farmers harvested poor crop the past season. Instead of getting 40 or SO bushels to tbe acre as they should. Agsin. tbe soil around here Is strong. As one expert observed. "It Is everlasting. ever-lasting. Being strong It will stsnd and yield a Urge crop." It will Uke near ty twice the amount of seed th thin ner eoUs of other localities will Uke If ;srsely sown a thin crop will re- |
