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VOL. XXII. INDIANAPOLIS, IND., SATURDAY, AUG. 6,1887. NO. 32 Written for tbe Indiana Farmer. WHEAT YIELDS AT PURDUE UNIVERSITY. A Comparative Test of Forty-six Varieties. BY W. C. I.ATTA. The wheats were grown on a dark heavy lnaiii well drained. The previous crops were clover ami timothy two years, corn one year, oats one year, in the order named. The wheats were sown at the rate of rive pecks to the acre. Commercial fertilizers,—chiefly phosphates—were applied after seeding at the rate of 200 pounds per ture. The year has been very favorable, as only one wheat, (Genoese, imported by the National Department of Agriculture) was winter killed to an appreciable extent. The yields are given for four years in the accompanying table: TABLE OrVINO YIELDS OK Kflllt YEARN. 9! Name. I Velvet Chaff '- Kxtra Karly Oakley " Fllltz ■I Velvet <'ha"*(smooth). * Hold Dust ii Iieriuun Kmperor 7 Fnleaster H Smooth Seotl a Hedge's Proline 10 Velvet Chair Ill Russian smooth IS Yazoo.. 1* Emporium Scott H Pata#onIan Trigc lri Armstrong Lancaster Ill .ViKger 17 Velvet Chaff _ 18i Lancaster ID Ked May '--0 C'law-on -I *IHehl-Medlterranean 22 Martin Amber it Fultz-Clawson 2* Velvet Cbaf} 2-j Poole a> High Oratle. -7 Wyandotte 28 Perkins 29 Velvet Chaff... 30 *Diehl-Meilllerranean 31 Earlv Rice : 32 Raub's Black Proline 3" Genoese 34 Everitt'B High Grade 35 New Monarch 36 Diet?. Longberry :t7 Velvet Chaff 38 Hich I- Lancaster.. 39 Tasmantan.:. -Hi Iliehl-Egyptian 41 German Amber 42 Landreth 43 'Michigan Amber I Purdue).. 44 Velvet Chaff. 45 Rodgers. ■Hi Ked Russian 47 /.i in merman 48 Kuropean 49 Egyptian 50 Velvet Chaff 51 Wyandotte 52 Michigan Amber - Riley) 53 McOh.ee White 54 Badger 55 McCracken 5* Finley 57 Velvet Chaff Bush, per acre. 1884.1885 1-s, 34 •Hybrid Mediterranean. tCalled also. Red Amber anil Red Knit/. Comparing the two standard varieties grown on the college farm—Velvet I 'haff and Michigan Amber (No. 34)—with the other kinds we find that, in 1887, 22 kinds yield more than the former and 23 yield less; while the latter excels 37 kinds, equals four, and is surpassed by only five. TABLE SHOWING AVERAGE YIELDS FOR FOITR YEARS. Bash, per acre. 11 Velvet Chart i bearded i 32.' - S1.2 29.11 27.5 27.2 27.0 -J*.2 25.5 25.2 24.2 24.2 24.2 24.0 "M B." 23.5 illl 21.7 2L2 -... 21.11 20.0 Name Velvet I -liatl - bearded > Michigan Amlier (Pnrilue'.. Clawson Red Russian European Kgvptian Hedges I'roliHc l.aiica-sli-r Finley Emporium Scull Armstrong-1 jtncasler "ulu.. /.i miner ni an I tie hi Mediterranean Martin Amber Landreth Uiehl-Kgyptian FulU-Clawson Hie hi Lancaster As the average yield for a numlier of years indicates closely the relative hardiness of wheats I give in the above table the average yields of all wheats that have been grown continuously on the college farm during the last four years. The wheats are averaged in the order of their yields, the highest being first. Of the above 21 kinds only the first two named have proven quite hardy here in severe winters. The Velvet Chaff is a plump, light red wheat, rather better for dark colored soils. It has straw of medium strength. The Michigan Amber has a dark red, rather angular grain, a smooth head, strong straw, and bronze chart. This wheat seems well suited to both dark and light colored soils. Toavoid unnecessary correspondence I will add that the college can furnish seed wheat of Michigan Amber and Velvet Chaff only. Parties interested should see our advertisement in this issue as it will appear but once. A bulletin, giving full account of yvheat experiments at the college, will probably be issued soon, and sent free to all who apply. I.afayette, July 23, 1887. Rodgers RedM ay.. Postal Card Correspondence. INDIAN'. Rush Co., July 30.—Weather continues hot and dry; water scarce. K. K. Fran k li n Co., July 3(1.—-Oats very short; corn crop not estimated at more than half a crop. A. W. H. Hancock Co., July 30.—Corn is sutl'er- ing; there has not been one inch of rain in two months; pastures are drying up. S. S. K. GIBSON Co., July 31.- Remarkably dry ind hot; we have hail but one and one tenth inch rainfall for (13 days; corn badly damaged by the drouth. E. J. Crawford Co., July 30.—The weather is extremely hot and the ground very dry; corn and pastures are very much needing rain ; too dry to sow turnips. J. M. .1. Randolph Co., July 30.-Very dry; grass and corn drying up; gardens almost a failure; potato crop short; hot and dry and no prospect yet for rain. \V. J. 1). Jefferson Co., July 30.—Corn cannot Im- a half crop; the showers seem to benefit but little on account of the intense heat following; no abatement of heat. I". I.. M. Clinton Co., July 30.—All clay ground corn ruined ; black soil ground will yield half a crop; oats crop just threshed and excellent; late clover doing no good ; )io- tati>es will be none; no rain scarcely for six weeks. R. U.S. Henry Co., July 90.—Wheat pretty nearly all thrashed but the yield is not so much as was expected; grapes and sweet potatoes doing well; corn and pasture need rain; Irish potatoes short; apples scarce; pears middling plenty. W. I). (ii-.EKNK. Co., July 30.—The rain last week relieved the drouth only for the time being; it is bad as ever now; the upland corn is gone, and that in the lowlands badly damaged; weather excessively hot; heat very oppressive; winter apples falling from the trees. W. II. S. Switzerland Co., July 29.— Crop conditions remain unchanged and unless co pious rains bring speedy relief the prospect is very discouraging; the tobacco crop in the county will lie two-thirds below the average and will command high prices. thus in a measure compensate for the deficiency iu yield; wheat is arriving in moderate quantities and selling at 65 cents. c. <i. B. Boone Co., July 2it.—We are in the midst of the most terrible drouth ever known thisearly in the season; wheat ami oats good ; hay half crop; vegetables and eorn almost a failure; eorn will make nothing but fodder in many fields; pastures completely burned out, making feeding necessary, and the watercourses are drying nji making stock water scarce. I. N. B. Bartholomew Co., August 1.—In this section we are having a very severe drouth; no rain since Oth day of June except a few slight rains not sufficient to wet the ground; corn is curled up very badly and some dead; the few a|i|>les, peaches and pears are drying up on the trees; we had a fair crop of wheat and oats; grass light pasture dried up; wells and cisterns are failing. W. W. ■ i.i.i ><»■*. i »oi.i: Co., July 20.—Badly scorched up again this week; hot winds and no rain; very hard on the corn; oats are being: stacked and threshed; yield about 28 j bushels and no trick to thresh 60 acres per day of ten hours. C. U. S. UWTUCKT. Mt Hi.KNiiKHii Co., July 29. -This part of Kentucky is exceedingly dry: corn is drying up yery badly and water in many places very scarce; if it does not rain soon corn will be cut B0 per cent. T. P. B. (general 31eurs. California's raisin crop this year will be 1,000,000 boxes, and the quality will lie tlie best. A shark recently- captured in San Kran- cisco bay contained a peck of young lobsters. In U~M-7 the collections of internal revenue amounted to $118,83.r>,7-'i7, at a cost of 14,075,0*0. There are over 300,000 children inthe I'nited Stales, lietween one and twelve years old, whose lives are insured. The price of leaf tobacco inthe New- York market has gone up 50 to 100 per cent this month, and is still climbing. John Taylor, president of the Mormon church, died at Salt Lake City, I'tah, July 27. The funeral was held in the tabernacle. Thunderstorms and floods did much damage in New York and Pennsylvania hist week. Around Heading the loss is estimated at(180,000. California boasts of her timber, and it is stated that pine boards 80 feet long and three feet wide, without knot or blemish, can readily be obtained there. The largest steamboat in American waters is to be built for the Kail river line. It will lie called the Puritan, and will be lui feci long ai the water line. She will have 335 state-rooms and all modern improvements. She will cost $1,500,000, and will be finished in May, 1889. In New York, Philadelphia and some other cities the roof in the tenement ho i«e district is a general resort in hot nights Sometimes whole familes camp out. R. P. Clement, president of the Citizens' Savings bank of l.i-aveiisworth Kansas, is a defaulter for about $50,000 and a fugitive, lie speculated in wheat with the bank' funds and lost. Mrs. Mancel Talcott, of Chicago, has established and maintains two day nurseries for the children of workingwomen. In these nurseries 1,000 children are eared for on an average every month. Townsend Cox, chairman of the New Y'ork State Forest Commission, proposes to establish one or more parks for the propagation of deer and other game upon lands belonging to the State situated in the Catskill region. In Spring Valley, 111., Mr. Bloom lost his life going into a well filled with black- damp, to fix a pump. A second man volunteered to go down and bring him up. He, too, was overcome and fell dead on the corpse of the first man. Captain Win. A. Owen, a well-known market butcher and local politician of Detroit, was instantly killed by a crazy freak. He whipped his horses into a dead run, the tongue of the buggy broke, and lie was dashed to the earth and brained. .lames McConlay, of Hastings, Neb., received the body of his only son, Hugh, Who was reported to have been killed in the St. Thomas (Ont.)accident three weeks ago. The body was followed to the grave by sorrowing relatives. One day last week the old man was astonished to see his son walk into the house. A well-to-do negro living on Orange I^ake, Kla., sayv a large alligator make his appearance among a lot of hogs in the lake, seize one of the best in the herd and attempt to make off to deep water with it. The other hogs attacked the alligator on all sides—some by the legs, others by any convenient part. After killing him they fell to work making a hearty meal of him. THE WONDER RASPBERRY. We visited Mr. Bobbins, the propagator of the Wonder raspberry, at his home near Arcadia, one day last week, and examined his little raspberry plantation with much interest. Notwithstanding the long and excessive drouth the vines are growing thriftily and setting a tine second crop of lierries, which Mr. R. assures us will be even larger and finer than those of the first crop. The Wonder is enormously productive, many ofthe stalks bearing an aggregate of more than 3,000 berries, or a gallon or more. The new plants, of this year's growth, begin to ripen fruit in July and continue bearing until after frost. The same plants bear another crop in the spring, the berries ripening two to three weeks in advance of most other black oap varieties. Thk records at the Signal Service station attest the fact that all will readily believe that the July just past was the hottest for seventeen years. The average temperature of the month yvas 80.0°. 79.00 was the highest average in any preceding, that of 1879. The average of the month in 1884 was only 73.7 degrees.
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Title | Indiana farmer, 1887, v. 22, no. 32 (Aug. 6) |
Purdue Identification Number | INFA2232 |
Date of Original | 1887 |
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Agriculture Farm management Horticulture Agricultural machinery |
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agriculture farm management horticulture agricultural machinery and equipment |
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agriculture farm management horticulture agricultural machinery and equipment |
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VOL. XXII.
INDIANAPOLIS, IND., SATURDAY, AUG. 6,1887.
NO. 32
Written for tbe Indiana Farmer.
WHEAT YIELDS AT PURDUE UNIVERSITY.
A Comparative Test of Forty-six Varieties.
BY W. C. I.ATTA.
The wheats were grown on a dark heavy
lnaiii well drained. The previous crops
were clover ami timothy two years, corn
one year, oats one year, in the order
named. The wheats were sown at the rate
of rive pecks to the acre. Commercial fertilizers,—chiefly phosphates—were applied
after seeding at the rate of 200 pounds per
ture. The year has been very favorable,
as only one wheat, (Genoese, imported by
the National Department of Agriculture)
was winter killed to an appreciable extent. The yields are given for four years
in the accompanying table:
TABLE OrVINO YIELDS OK Kflllt YEARN.
9!
Name.
I Velvet Chaff
'- Kxtra Karly Oakley
" Fllltz
■I Velvet <'ha"*(smooth).
* Hold Dust
ii Iieriuun Kmperor
7 Fnleaster
H Smooth Seotl
a Hedge's Proline
10 Velvet Chair
Ill Russian smooth
IS Yazoo..
1* Emporium Scott
H Pata#onIan Trigc
lri Armstrong Lancaster
Ill .ViKger
17 Velvet Chaff _
18i Lancaster
ID Ked May
'--0 C'law-on
-I *IHehl-Medlterranean
22 Martin Amber
it Fultz-Clawson
2* Velvet Cbaf}
2-j Poole
a> High Oratle.
-7 Wyandotte
28 Perkins
29 Velvet Chaff...
30 *Diehl-Meilllerranean
31 Earlv Rice :
32 Raub's Black Proline
3" Genoese
34 Everitt'B High Grade
35 New Monarch
36 Diet?. Longberry
:t7 Velvet Chaff
38 Hich I- Lancaster..
39 Tasmantan.:.
-Hi Iliehl-Egyptian
41 German Amber
42 Landreth
43 'Michigan Amber I Purdue)..
44 Velvet Chaff.
45 Rodgers.
■Hi Ked Russian
47 /.i in merman
48 Kuropean
49 Egyptian
50 Velvet Chaff
51 Wyandotte
52 Michigan Amber - Riley)
53 McOh.ee White
54 Badger
55 McCracken
5* Finley
57 Velvet Chaff
Bush, per acre.
1884.1885 1-s,
34
•Hybrid Mediterranean.
tCalled also. Red Amber anil Red Knit/.
Comparing the two standard varieties
grown on the college farm—Velvet I 'haff
and Michigan Amber (No. 34)—with the
other kinds we find that, in 1887, 22 kinds
yield more than the former and 23 yield
less; while the latter excels 37 kinds,
equals four, and is surpassed by only five.
TABLE SHOWING AVERAGE YIELDS FOR
FOITR YEARS.
Bash,
per
acre.
11 Velvet Chart i bearded i 32.'
- S1.2
29.11
27.5
27.2
27.0
-J*.2
25.5
25.2
24.2
24.2
24.2
24.0
"M
B."
23.5
illl
21.7
2L2
-... 21.11
20.0
Name
Velvet I -liatl - bearded >
Michigan Amlier (Pnrilue'..
Clawson
Red Russian
European
Kgvptian
Hedges I'roliHc
l.aiica-sli-r
Finley
Emporium Scull
Armstrong-1 jtncasler
"ulu..
/.i miner ni an
I tie hi Mediterranean
Martin Amber
Landreth
Uiehl-Kgyptian
FulU-Clawson
Hie hi Lancaster
As the average yield for a numlier of
years indicates closely the relative hardiness of wheats I give in the above
table the average yields of all wheats that
have been grown continuously on the college farm during the last four years. The
wheats are averaged in the order of their
yields, the highest being first.
Of the above 21 kinds only the first two
named have proven quite hardy here in
severe winters. The Velvet Chaff is a
plump, light red wheat, rather better for
dark colored soils. It has straw of medium strength. The Michigan Amber has
a dark red, rather angular grain, a smooth
head, strong straw, and bronze chart.
This wheat seems well suited to both dark
and light colored soils. Toavoid unnecessary correspondence I will add that the
college can furnish seed wheat of Michigan Amber and Velvet Chaff only. Parties
interested should see our advertisement
in this issue as it will appear but once. A
bulletin, giving full account of yvheat experiments at the college, will probably be
issued soon, and sent free to all who apply.
I.afayette, July 23, 1887.
Rodgers
RedM
ay..
Postal Card Correspondence.
INDIAN'.
Rush Co., July 30.—Weather continues
hot and dry; water scarce. K. K.
Fran k li n Co., July 3(1.—-Oats very short;
corn crop not estimated at more than half
a crop. A. W. H.
Hancock Co., July 30.—Corn is sutl'er-
ing; there has not been one inch of rain
in two months; pastures are drying up.
S. S. K.
GIBSON Co., July 31.- Remarkably dry
ind hot; we have hail but one and one
tenth inch rainfall for (13 days; corn badly
damaged by the drouth. E. J.
Crawford Co., July 30.—The weather is
extremely hot and the ground very dry;
corn and pastures are very much needing
rain ; too dry to sow turnips. J. M. .1.
Randolph Co., July 30.-Very dry;
grass and corn drying up; gardens almost
a failure; potato crop short; hot and dry
and no prospect yet for rain. \V. J. 1).
Jefferson Co., July 30.—Corn cannot
Im- a half crop; the showers seem to benefit
but little on account of the intense heat
following; no abatement of heat.
I". I.. M.
Clinton Co., July 30.—All clay ground
corn ruined ; black soil ground will yield
half a crop; oats crop just threshed and
excellent; late clover doing no good ; )io-
tati>es will be none; no rain scarcely for
six weeks. R. U.S.
Henry Co., July 90.—Wheat pretty
nearly all thrashed but the yield is not so
much as was expected; grapes and sweet
potatoes doing well; corn and pasture
need rain; Irish potatoes short; apples
scarce; pears middling plenty. W. I).
(ii-.EKNK. Co., July 30.—The rain last
week relieved the drouth only for the
time being; it is bad as ever now; the upland corn is gone, and that in the lowlands badly damaged; weather excessively hot; heat very oppressive; winter apples falling from the trees. W. II. S.
Switzerland Co., July 29.— Crop conditions remain unchanged and unless co
pious rains bring speedy relief the prospect is very discouraging; the tobacco crop
in the county will lie two-thirds below the
average and will command high prices.
thus in a measure compensate for the deficiency iu yield; wheat is arriving in
moderate quantities and selling at 65 cents.
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