Show NOXIOUS WEED SEEDS IN III WHEAT One Bushel of Dockage to Every 22 Bushels of Grain Foreign Material Commonly Found In Government Investigations Consisted Consisted Con Con- of Wild Oats Buckwheat Buckwheat Buck Buck- wheat Mustard Etc Prepared by the United Stales Stale Department or of Agriculture Thrashed spring wheat usually contains con talus much foreign n material martHinI cun consisting consist lug ing almost entirely of noxious seed eed seeds reeds Investigations conducted by It H. H Block and u. u It Huller hailer of the bureau bureau bu bu- bu r reau au of agricultural economics United d States Department of Agriculture Agi culture show slow that In the w 21 1020 o- o on n ciup there was approximately one bushel of ot for fUl foreign eign elga material or 01 In every 2 22 bushels of ut spring wheat thrashed thrush t This represents o over r bushels bushel of ot dockage for tor the spring wheat crop crup More than thun kinds of we weed d seeds seed are found In spring wheat hent but loss less thuu thun 20 of these appear commonly The forel foreign n seeds must most commonly found In the departments department's Ime named in the older order of ot their frequency frequency fre fre- quency were wild outs out wild buck buck- buckwheat wheat heat cultivated outs oats mustard quarter lambs barle barley green fu foxtail ear Imre's mustard flux r rye e cow cockle pigweed yellow V ro foxtail tull sunflower sun sun- flower corn com cockle wild ros ruse rose e. e kin king king- head and wild pea pen vetch etch Wild oats opp appeared In ill over o DO per Ier cent of ot the lots of ot wheat examined Grain Crain In Inspection statistics slum show that the percentage percentage per per- of ot dockage found In spring wh wheat ut Is Increasing Several factors tend to increase the foreign material In spring wheat the tha themore more inure Important of which are ure the sowing sowIng sowIng sow- sow Ing of ot wheat on land hind that Is already foul with weed seeds t and the use of seed setd wheat heH contaminated with weed seed seeds Both oth of these practices Im are common In the male main spring wheat area urea Foreign material In wheat Is objectionable because It Is an un economic waste sn says s 's the department The growing af of weed seeds with the wheat reduces the yield of wheat lIt thud Inv In In creases rem the cost of ot harvesting and thrashing I Foreign material occupies space In wagons and freight cars In Country and terminal elevators and mills und told It often has a n had bad err effect t ton on the milling and baking qualities of the wheat t. t That clean seed combined with goot good cultural methods will pro 1110 produce duce clean wheat Is being demonstrated ed rc constantly on mun many farms and that the marketing of only clean wheat I Is profitable there can he no doubt The farm aria Is the logical place to clean clenn wheat put preferably as 8 part of the thrashing operation When the cle clean clean- In lag is doe OJe on the farm the cleaned wheat will bring a n better price on the market t the freight on the dockage e will twill he be saved savell and the screenings will he available for feed and when finally ground can cnn be substituted for the higher high high- er priced l feeds such as ns oats corn ant and commercial mill feeds Two methods of cleaning wheat are common One method uses sieves and air nil blasts for fo- separating the foreign material from the wheat heat and the other oth oth- other er method separates the grain accordIng accord Ing to the size and shape of the ker her nels The former method Is used Inthe in inthe inthe the purpose general cleaning machines such as fanning mills and receiving separators ru tors DOl and the latter method I Is If used d In to machines designed to make special separations such as cockle cylinders cyl cyl- inders enders ring graders and disk ma mo machines chines I Partners Bulletin 1287 1257 Foreign Ma In Spring Wheat Just published I by the United States Department of ol Agriculture describes methods of removing removing re reo re- re moving foreign material in spring I wheat on the farm form and at ot the country countr I elevator cle Copies may moy he be obtained tram from the department at Washington D. D C. C or from any office of ot federal grain supervision su suo In the field OeM |