Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1916 — DOUBLE PROFITS FROM WHEAT [ARTICLE]

DOUBLE PROFITS FROM WHEAT

Millers pay more per bushel for high quality wheat than they do for that which only grades number four or five, according to a Chicago Board of Trade Member. Ohio Experiment Station Bulletin 243 shows high quality wheat and large yields go together, thus giving the farmer double profits. The experiments reported in Bulletin 243 show a yield of 8.45 bushels of wheat per acre with 51 per cent plump and 49 per cent shriveled kernels, where no fertilizers were used, against a yield of as high as 34.15 bushels per acre of which 94 per cent of the kernels were plump and but 6 per cent shriveled when the wheat was fertilized. From 300 to 500 pounds to the acre of a suitable wheat fertilizer produces wheat that has nearly 100 per cent plump, heavy kernels and at the same time increases the yield. This means double profits on the money invested in fertilizers as there are more bushels of wheat grading No. 1 or 2 instead of No. 4 or 5 or lower.