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Show I WHEAT TO RESIST RUST Farmers, millers, grain deab rs, and everybody else who eat bread have been concerned greatly in the recent weeks because of the red rust that threatens to diminish the wheal crop. No sooner does the gloom thicken, however, than, lo! hope is born in Kansas, and the days of the red rust scare are seen to be numbered. For at the Kansas Agricultural college at Manhattan, Kanred lifts its smiling face Kanred is a new kind of ANhcat, eohed from a single head imported from Russia 14 years ago. It is impervious to the rust, has tew diseases, and is one of the hardiest wheats known. Its yield averages five bushels to an acre more than other varieties. Half a million acres have been planted in Kanred wheat this year. Millions of bushels will go for seed for next year's crop It is expected a fourth of the hard wheat acreage in Kansas, and large tracts in Oklahoma Texas. Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado and South Dakota will be sown with Kanred this fall. No longer docs the farmer look with disapproval on the college fellei Kanred is one of the reasons. It is one good tiling that has come out of Russia though it came a long time ago. |