Show selecting seed wheat A farmer barme r recently told tle writer that he be had been advised by a prominent miller of the state that he ought to secure turkey wheat from kansas and not from utah the reason advanced was that the tux turkey key wheat tends to grow softer under climatic conditions in hi utah the writer is convinced after a very careful examination into int this matter that the cond conclusion lusion is not a reasonable oue one the main factor in influencing 0 hardness and softness in wheat is the amount of precipitation there is no doubt that turkey wheat placed under irrigation tends to become softer and there tb ere is a decrease in the per of gluten on utah dry farms arms however turkey wheat grown for seven years is just as hard and contains jusic as high percentage of gluten as does the original seed the deseret farmer strongly advocates the use of f home grown seed in the case of dry farm cheats As a matter of baet this is a pretty safe rule to follow at any time it is true that potatoes imported f from rom colorado this year are ir making i alf in g much better showing than the utah grown seed but this is due very largely to the fact that uta utah farmers have not been careful enough in breeding and caring for the seed in the proper way it is certain however that turkey wheat grown on the dry jarms farms of this and carefully fanned through rv h a fannin fanning mill to elt eliminate the lighter seed will produce much better results than tho imported product biarmer ri farm armer or |