Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1869 — How in it Done? [ARTICLE]

How in it Done?

In November, 1867, Dr. S. Ritchey I planted seven rows of bearded spring wheat across one end of his garden. The rows about fifteen inches apart. It did not come up until the spring of 1808. It grew ‘thrifty and filled well, but the curious part of it is, that more than throe-fourths of it grew smooth headed or beardless. \\ ho can account for this change in the appearance of the variety? The new crop Tiad become winter wheat. Com