New Ulm Review

EVERY ACRE MUST DO ITS FULL DUTY

There has been seeded a larger acreage of winter wheat than ever before. There will undoubtedly be a larger acreage of spring wheat because the price of the wheat crop to be harvested in 1919 has been guaranteed by the United States Government on a basis of $2.21s Minneapolis. It is the only crop so guaranteed.

Even more important than increasing the acreage, is the need of growing all the wheat possible upon each acre.

Select the variety which is best adapted to our soil and climate. Quit growing the mongrels and breed up this wheat to its highest milling and yielding properties.

SELECT SEED WITH DARK FLINTY KERNELS FREE FROM "YELLOW BELLY."

It contains plenty of gluten of the best quality for bread making. It matures from five to ten days earlier than other wheats, avoiding danger from hot winds and drouth. Being earlier it is not so liable to rust. It does not shell out and waste so badly as bluestem, red fife and velvet chaff during harvest even when over-ripe. The straw is shorter and stiffer, it suffers less from lodging. Put your seed through a fanning mill, cleaning out all trash, immature kernels, weed seeds, etc., planting only the plumpest seed with an equal amount of plant food in each kernel so that it may get a good start and mature at the same time, making less waste at harvest. Your seed bed must be shallow and your root bed must be firm.

TREAT EVERY BUSHEL OF SEED WHEAT FOR SMUT WITH FORMALDEHYDE.

Treat seed wheat for bunt or stinking smut with formaldehyde. Obtain formaldehyde from your druggist and be sure it is full strength. Mix one pound bottle in thirty gallons of water in open tubs or barrels, which will allow the smut balls, trash and many weed seeds and damaged kernels to rise to the top and be skimmed off. You can treat seed wheat for smut by sprinkling the solution over the seed in a tight wagon box, shoveling the wet seed into the seeder box while at work in the field.

Don't take any chances. Smutty wheat is docked from 5 cents to 10 cents a bushel. The loss in yield is often 25 to 50 per cent. Make a few germinating tests in wet blotting papers. Be sure that your seed will grow vigorously. Don't plant weak seed.

SECURE SEED WHEAT NOW

If you need seed or have any for sale advise your mill or elevator, or write to Prof. Manley Champlin, So. Dak. Experiment Assn., Brookings, So. Dak., or Prof. C. P. Bull, Secy, Minnesota Crop Improvement Assn, University Farm, St. Paul or Agricultural College Postoffice, North Dakota.