Show WHEAT ON DRY FARMS diagram am and illustrations given to help the farmer results obtained by the state agricultural experiment stations and the united states department of agriculture every spring wheat grower wants to know whether to grow common or durum wheat on his farm farmers bulletin no by means of diagrams and pictures endeavors to help the tha farmer in fit the great plains area to answer this question satisfactorily fig 1 Is a chart showing wheat yields nt at 17 different experiment stations in the grout plains area these re 1 A i y 17 1 h 11 11 1 7 1 J 4 A aj 1 7 I I 1 1 I 1 14 I 1 of 11 sou TH DAKOTA as J X R J I 1 1 1 W v 11 1 1 I 1 rm 1 I 1 X hi I 1 at COLORADO 91 J ikan GAS NEW TEXAS LANOMA I 1 LK I 1 J I 1 brict 1 fig I 1 DIa diagram grami showing average yields in certain kerods pcr of years of the tha leading Varl variety of the different groups of wheat at 17 stations in the great plains area 1 average of only three years bluestem at moccasin and akron 2 average of orly only four years preston at langdon winter and preston sit at dickinson 3 average of only six years preston Pr caton at edgeley Ed paley aulta were obtained partly by the state agricultural experiment stations ns part ly by the united states department ot of agriculture and partly by the two in operation cooperation co for each station the chart chaft shows a series ot of vertical columns shaded in different dlCe rent ways the number of columns tn in each case shows the number of different groups of wheat grown in those years each column stands for the best variety of its group and the height shows the yield in bushels per acre as explained at the side of the di ula grain akram tho the arnu baard red winter white durum black fife light slanting lines preston heavy alo lating lines and bluestem dotted the study of fig I 1 tells us some things very plainly here they are 1 where winter wheat the white column can be grown safety safely it Is a 7 i 1 I 1 1 1 p i 1 i 1 f p 1 1 g 1 i M 0 i 11 1 A I 1 1 4 I 1 j r i 11 I 1 I 1 11 1 t 1 lt 7 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 1 1 Z 4 i 1 1 I 1 i 1 1 7 t 1 1 I 1 1 1 I 1 I 1 46 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 v IJ 1 1 1 I 1 1 1 1 I 1 1 I 1 11 I 1 t k 1 1 1 1 8 4 N 11 i 7 I 1 I 1 fi I 1 I 1 I 1 t t vl I 1 t IJ I 1 AV 4 t I 1 I 1 I 1 J I 1 5 W I 1 I 1 I 1 11 I 1 1 7 4 11 A 4 I 1 V I 1 A V 7 I 1 fly fig 2 heads of durum and common wheat in two positions on top face view of SpIke lets on bottom edge view of SpIke lets 1 kubanka durum 2 bluestem 3 preston better and in many parts a much better elder than any spring wheat 2 durum wheat the black column has out yielded all other groups of spring wheat at all of the stations named I 1 3 fife wheat light slant lined column Is the highest yielding com mon man wheat in the northern and western parts of north dakota it also to Is well adapted to eastern north dakota and south dakota and to minnesota 4 the preston group heavy slant sla lined column as aa here shown con isains three different varieties the important one is the preston it gives good yields iolar in central and east ern south dakota where it all other groups 0 of common spring wheat ibi 6 wheat dotted column Is s hardly equal to fife except ji in mat ean rn north dakota 1 1 I 1 I 1 |