Show WHEAT T GROWN ON TED FARM Yi Yield ld of Slightly Over 1 00 Bushels to Acre Obtained on an Small Idaho Patch J VARIETY WAS USED Experiments at Aberdeen Station Show That Federation an Australian Australian Austra Austra- lian Ilan Strain Is Better Suited for Irrigation Prepared d by the United States Department t J of or Agriculture A rl ld of bushels and 30 pounds of wheat from acres of ot laud land In n Jerome county Idaho in hi 1921 1021 probably probably probably proba proba- bly a record yield for spring wheat In the United States Is reported In affidavits re received by the bureau of ot markets and crop estimates of the United States Department of Agriculture I I ture from H. H S. S Green manager of tho the Aho Ul-Aho farms Jerome count county Idaho ThIs Tills yield of slightly over bushels of wheat to the acre was obtained obtained obtained ob ob- from the DIcklow variety This variety has been found to bo ho well suited for growing under Irrigation In southern Idaho and the acreage of It Itin II in III that section has Increased rapidly during recent years This Is due duet t I Ia t p pj j DIcklow Wheat largely to the efforts of ot the former superintendent ent of the tho Aberdeen Idaho sub-station sub L L. L O. O Alcher Ascher who has had charge of the operative co cereal experiments experiments experiments ex ex- conducted by the Idaho station and the United States Department Depart Depart- ment went of Agriculture For tho the past five years Mr Alcher Aicher has been distributing distributing distributing dis dis- dis- dis and recommending the DIcklow Dicklow Dicklow Dick- Dick low variety for tor growing under Irrigation Irrigation tion In southern Idaho Lar Largest ut Yield of Wheat The largest yield of wheat I per er acre e 5 ever mor recorded d by the bureau of cro crop p i estimates of the department Is 1172 bushels The yield was produced In 15 1505 1695 lu In Island county Wash on a an n acre 18 field The variety of wheat t sown was Red lied Russian a winter winte r wl wheat mt Known aa AS Australian i Club 1 The bushel yield of the D variety here reported t fa probably ft a. r record rd yield for spring wheat In th the United States In experiments cot con ducted by the tho United States Det Deport Depart rt- rt ment of Agriculture where varieties are grown In fiftieth acre plats yields at M the rate of more than SO 80 bushels bushels' per acre have havo sometimes been ob- ob tamed A yield of bushels per acre was obtained hi tp 1921 1021 from froma a n plat pInt of Federation wheat at the Aber Aberdeen teen Idaho sub station The Tho Federation Is to toan Isan an Important Australian variety of wheat Introduced Into the tho United States by the Department of ot Agriculture Agriculture ture In 1915 1015 Federation Variety Favored E Experimental results at the Aberdeen Aberdeen Aberdeen Aber Aber- deen station during the D past t three years rears Indicate that the Fe Federation will willbe willbe be even en better butter suited for growing under Irrigation than the DIcklow as asIt asit It has on the average a the DIcklow by 5 5 bushels per r acre Fed Federation has bas also proved to bo ho a r milling and making bread-making wheat than the DIcklow Last season the he Feder Fedei Federation atlon was WIlS grown under Irrigation with marked success In several se sections o of Oregon |