| Show atac a college bred wheat by DR GEORGE STEWART agronomist utah state agricultural college atac is still a now new wheat during the season of 1928 conditions were extremely favorable and its per performance forin was of a high order in 1929 conditions were much less favorable and its performance was not so good in spite of the fact that it fell off during 1929 it still gave very satisfactory yields in cache valley at nephi and in the sevier river valley in the general vicinity tv of richfield the winter of 1928 29 was unusually severe crops of only moderate winter hardiness were severely injured it became clear that utah wheat is less winter hardy than is turkey or or even than sil verchin or goldcoin the stand was considerably reduced wherever a fall seeding was made in central and northern utah in spite of this in cache valley its yield was approximately equal to that of turkey and and considerably superior to that of goldcoin at nephi it also turkey kofod goldcoin and several other varieties when a dozen to fifteen varieties abc seeded for several years in a test the chances are high that no single variety will be in the lead for even a large part of the time the very best varieties are likely to rank near the top consistently but ut only occasionally sio nally will vill they be in in first place this is what has happened to atac wheat it is not a phenomenon iti is mcimely a reliable consistent per former that on the average out yields other varieties under those conditions favorable to it it is adapted to the most promising dry farm conditions in the state where yields are likely to range in the of 35 to 40 bushels or more A much stiffer straw than turkey or keeps it from lodging under any dry farm conditions it is also 9 grown awn as a spring wheat on irrigated i lands where the soil conditions are somewhat raw on the most fertile soils bhele sugar beets potatoes and other cultivated crops have been well mathied matui ed federation or dicklow is tile the proper wheat to grow on lands that are somewhat less fertile than these atac has a great deal of promise exact acie yields have not yet been received aloni sevier county but S R boswell the county agent makes the statement that it out yielded other varieties from five to ton ten bushels it stood up well and offered no harvesting difficulties as compared with sevier wheat which is the standard variety in that neighborhood atac the happy suggestion of ident E G peterson is is a con ti action of utah A C it is the first of a series of new strains that have resulted aiom plant breeding at the college atac is a pure breeding hybrid bioni a cross of I 1 se sevier ier by dicklow made in 1919 I 1 duling the next five year it went I 1 through the seg segregating legating segie gating process of bleak bi caking bleaking ing up into about diffrient trains strains after sonic some years ui oi competitive p peti tive yield and standing tests about twenty chosen by call who as a gladu ate student was doing the field on this part of the experiment later the writer and D C found fou nd F GS as to be the best when F 68 was distributed to the faini fai meis eis it was under the name atac no variety will perform satisfactorily under all the various set sets s of adverse conditions in legions bhele winter killing is very bad and where drouth conditions are so c that the normal yields are only twelve to fifteen basli bushels els it is rather doubtful that atac wheat is the proper variety A smut resistant wheat he at adapted to utah conditions is relatively i close ios at hantl hani and another strain strain adapted to the most fertile irrigated land i is about ready to be introduced to four or five farmers in small quantities |
