Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1919 — TOO MUCH RYE IN THE WHEAT [ARTICLE]

TOO MUCH RYE IN THE WHEAT

Presents a Problem In Properly Grading the Latter This Year. The fact that about ninety per per cent of the wheat fields in Jasper county—and the same is true, it is said, in most parts of this and Neighboring states—have considerable rye mixed with the wheat, is going to prove quite a task for the/grain dealers to determine the per cent of each in the grain as it is brought td the elevators, in order that it may be properly graded.

There is no known method, it is said, to thoroughly separate by machinery wheat from rye, nor vice versa, and this can only be done, to determine the per cent of each in a sample submitted, by separating them by band and then weighing. The presence bf so much rye in the wheat this year is supposed to have been caused from thrashing separators carrying a little rye from each place wnere they had been thrashing the latter grain to other places where they started on wheat, and the farmers saving for seed the wheat thrashed first rather than that thrashed toward the last, as they should have done. While this trouble is usually present eachr—Reason to some extent, it was never before known to be so bad as it is this year. Of course there is an occasional field that is entirely free from rye, while others contain perhaps as high as ten to fifteen per cent or more of the latter grain. No definite plan or agreement has been reached by the grain buyers at this writing as to just how they will handle or grade the wheat this year, blit it was expected that the question would come up at the state meeting of the Indiana grain dealers held at Indianapolis this week, at which government experts would he present and would take this problem up in connection with other matters that wonld come before the meeting.