Show eleven utah counties Coun tle gow G ow certified wheat out of approximately applications made by the grain growers of utah to have bave wheat fields certified only about seventy fulfilled the necessary requirements and passed certification tests this 3 ear according to george stewart professor of agronomy at the utah agricultural college who is engaged in certification ironwork work in operation cooperation co with wilh the state department of agriculture besides the fact that the require ment have shave been made more rigid than they were last year professor stewart gives two outstanding reasons why such a large percentage of the applications were turned down fust filst fields were not free from other VaTtie ties vf wheat and weedy second many fields infected with loose smut tit wheat to be certified must be per cent pure and must not contain to exceed one tenth u if tune one per cent of loose smut the kernels must te le plump and of good quality in spite of the tact that the present entitles lules iules are agnost twice as strict as a they were last bear ear about bushels of wheat have been certified which indicates that the growing of eel tilled wheat is on oil the increase one outstanding feature of tle tie pie sent crop of certified wheat is the shift of the prod producing licin sections last season about 65 per cent of thi the certified wheat was tweed in utah cun county while this year the certified fields are fairly evenly distributed in eleven counties the counties listed this i e ear r as certified wheat producers are cache boxelder Box elder weber divis davis D ivis salt lake utah millard sevier san pete morgan tooele thoele swedish select oats and aiebi barley are also ako being certified certified this thin year the following steps are include included in tae certification process 1 applications filed through the county agent 2 field inspection just before the grain is harvested bar vested 3 harvesting and threshing under the Super supervision of the counti agent or agricultural inspector 4 taking of samples from froidl every tenth sack 5 hand abiah analysis sis of these samples by an expert at the utah agrical t anal iril college 6 placing of 0 colored tags on the sacks to designate certification certini certified ed grain roust must be kept in sacks not in grain bins |