Cultural Notes On Wheat

lleve are gome important points concerning wheat, set forth in a bulletin sent ont by Director Plumb, of the Purdue university station, at Lafayette, Ind. He says: Volvet Chaff, Michigan Amber and Fultz varieties of wheat have been grown for nine years on the university farm and rank in order as named, though Michigan Amber surpasses Velvet Chaff as a rust resisting variety. Red Clawson and Jones' Winter Fife are the two most promising recently introduced varieties. For eight years six pecks of seed sown per acre have given the most satisfactory results. In the región of Lafayette a higher average yield has been secured from wheat sown Sept. 20 over other dates of sowing. Judicious rotations, including grass. have given better returns than constant grain cropping. Heavy applications of inanure and fertilizers to a worn soil, growing coni and wheat alternately, have given paying returns. The average results of all experirnents at this station with fertilizers and inanures upon wheat during the past three years, in f uil or two-third doses, have not been profitable. The use of hot water or copper sulphate failed to destroy the spores of loose smut. Bunt, or stinking smut, in wheat was successfully destroyed by using hot water or copter sulphate. Barly and late harvesting of wheat had practically no effect on yield or weight of grain. Yield of grain and straw was considerably reduced by mowing wheat on certain plats in spring to check rankness of growth. In comparing fonns of nitrogen for f ertilizing the wheat. plant, sulphate of ammonia gave rather better yield than nitrate of soda or dried blood. As the plants fertilized with nitrate were slower to mature than tho others, these aleo suffered more froni rust than did the others. Photographers are authority for the statement that the facial resemblance of husband and wife is often clearer than that of brother and sister.