GENERAL FARM PROGRAM 723 



Mr. Pace. But there are years when the yield would not be as high? 



Mr. Kaseberg. Yes, that is possible, but some of the things I do 

 reduce the yield, because the method worked one year might be the 

 wrong thing. 



]\lr. Pace. For example? 



Mr. Kaseberg. One year, for instance, we had a variety of wheat 

 that headed out a little later than the other. And I thought now the 

 thing to do with that would be to seed that wheat about a week 

 earher. Normally my seeding date is September 20, and I started 

 seeding on the 13th of September, and we got a very mild winter, 

 and the wheat grew practically all winter long, and in the spring it 

 came up with a big lush growth, so we got a rather small head. And 

 the consequence of that I had a reduction in yield, and some of my 

 neighbors who had seeded at the usual date got a greater yield. 



Likewise this last winter was a very severe winter, so I went back 

 to my normal seeding date, of September 20, because of the lesson I had 

 learned the year before and seeded again, and there was no growth 

 at all from about the middle of November until early in March, and 

 now this year my wheat is very yellow and a spindling thing. And I 

 am anticipating a considerably smaller crop than the average. 



I am just trying to point out that what might be good practice in 

 one year might not be good practice the next. 



Mr. Pace. I think that is true of all crops. 



Mr. Kaseberg. I assume that it is. 



Mr. Pace. Thank you very much, Mr. Kaseberg. 



Mr. Kaseberg. Thank you. 



Mr. Pace. The other gentlemen whose names appear on the list of 

 witnesses have not responded, and they will be advised that we would 

 like to have them file statements with the committee. 



Gentlemen, so far as I know that concludes the hearing on wheat. 



(Whereupon at 1:40 p. m. the hearing was adjourned.) 



