Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 210, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1916 — A WHEAT SEED PLOT [ARTICLE]

A WHEAT SEED PLOT

The live stock man uses his strongest and best animals for breeding purposes and sends the weak, inferior and off-type individuals to the block. First-class, prize-winners of approved type are secured only by breeding to the very best animals the farmer can secure. This same principle applies to seed wheat. You cannot harvest No. 1 or 2 wheat by sowing No. 6 or No. 7 seed. Ude only plump, sound berries of one variety and discard all off-type seed just as you do with the poor, weak, delicate and offtype live stock. A pure variety of wheat can be secured and kept most easily by maintaining a seed wheat plot, since it offers an ideal way of testing and keeping the seed pure. The seed plot should be just large enough to furnish seed for tbe main crop. It is best on account of diseases to have the plot removed some distance from tbe main field, and treat the wheat on the seed plot for smut, have it free from disease, and thus save treating the seed for the main crop. Rye, cockle, aqd other weeds are more easily kept out of the sedd plot than out of the main field. Just a little extra care in handling the seed ‘ plot will give you pure wheat that yields more bushels per acre, grades high on the market, and sells at a premium when marketed for seed.