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COLORADO EXPERIMe!nT STATION 
price than the best quality of corn fed bacon. The Danisii bacon is 
made from barley-fed hogs. 
TYPES OF MILLING WHEAT FOR THE PLAINS. 
BY W. H. OLIN. 
Winter Wheat .—The Plains farmer has found in the past that 
wheat is to him a desirable cash crop and when acclimated seed of 
wheat types having known drouth resistant power, is used, the prob¬ 
abilities for harvest are increased. 
The type of winter wheat which for the past five years has been 
giving best results is Turkey Red. It has a medium straw, a medium 
to short spike, a small kernel, but is recognized as one of the best of 
milling wheats. Nearly every mill in the state is ready to pay from 
5 cents to lo cents premium for this wheat, so it has a strong local 
trade, insuring farmers a good market for the threshed grain. This 
grain should be seeded on good summer cultured ground at such a 
time after the middle of September and before the middle of October, 
as local conditions render advisable. When moisture conditions are 
such that his wheat gets a good start before it goes into the winter, it 
has a stem and root growth which enables it to more readily withstand 
winter conditions and the desirable strength in the spring for sturdy 
growth. An appreciable amount of winter moisture is very desirable 
for this crop. 
Early fall and late spring rains are essential for a fully developed 
crop and a satisfactory harvest. Use acclimated seed if possible. 
Some careful farmers in the vicinity of Holyoke, Vernon, Bennett, 
Byers and other localities of the Plains, have raised creditable winter 
wheat this past season, and the writer will be glad to assist, as far as 
possible, the new settler to get good quality acclimated seed grown 
under his local conditions. 
When the seed bed is well prepared under summer culture con¬ 
ditions, good vital, acclimated seed is properly drilled in the seed bed, 
(do not broadcast) at leact three weeks before the close of the grow¬ 
ing season, the farmer has done his part well. This should be fol¬ 
lowed by cross-harrowing in the spring. This gives cultivation to 
the growing wheat and thereby invigorates it. 
Get and keep pure quality seed. 
Spring Wheat .—Kubanka Durum for the past four years has 
shown itself to be our most drouth-resistant spring wheat for the 
Plains. While Colorado millers have not used it very extensively 
for milling, several export dealers are lending encouragment to the 
growing of this grain, and an increasing export trade east and south 
seems assured. Besides, this grain is being utilized by many farmers, 
mixing it with other grains for feeding purposes. 
