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COLORADO EXPERIMENT STATION 
This clearly shows how not to do. Farmer No. i now has a most 
promising'field of wheat and will undoubtedly be rewarded with a 
satisfactory harvest. 
One of the writer’s correspondents, living ten miles south-of 
Akron, Colo., has practiced summer culture for several years . Fie 
leports that in the fall, when he seeds his summer cuituied land, he 
often finds from three to five feet of moisture. 
The writer knows that this method of summer culture has been 
practiced in some parts of California for upwards of fort} years with 
satisfactory results. 
Use every practical method you can to conserve the moisture. 
Summer culture keeps the ground in good tilth, keeps down w'ceds, 
renders the plant food easily available for the next year’s crop, ^vhile 
it stores up the moisture so necessary to the plant in assimilating; its 
food. 
ACCLIMATED SEEDS. 
HINTS FOR NEW SETTLERS IN EASTERN COLORADO 
BY W. H. OLIN. 
So many settlers, coming from the humid regions of the central 
states into Eastern Colorado this spring, are bringing with them the 
seeds of the crops grown “back home,” with which they hope to grow 
crops in ajnuch drier region, that a word of caution is neccessary. 
Difiference in altitude, amount of rainfall and general climatic 
conditions urges the writer to warn the new settler that past expe¬ 
rience has shown that it wull be hazardous to use any but acclimated 
seeds of such types of grain, forage and ro-ot crops as successful 
farmers of that locality have demonstrated show fairly good drouth 
resistant power. 
Even with the most vital seed of established worth, in some sea¬ 
sons, lack of timely rains jeopardizes a profitable harvest. Last season 
one Eastern Colorado farmer seeded a drouth resistant strain of 
wheat, getting twenty-five bushels of good, sound wdieat, and in an 
adjoining field, with the same seed bed preparation and after treat¬ 
ment, he seeded a wheat from another state of unknowui drouth resist¬ 
ant power and got seven bushels per acre of inferior quality. 
This is further illustrated in every crop grown on the eastern 
plains of Colorado. Seed, if you wull, your choice imported grain 
in a seed block of an acre or less, but be sure to secure for the general 
field, grain that is acclmated to semi-arid conditions. The following 
crons have proven to be reasonably certain in average years for this 
