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I 2 THE DESERET FARMER SATURDAY, OCTOBER a, xqqs. I m Just received a Gar of Dry 1 Ltnd Turkey Red Wheat for M Seed. H VOGLER SEED GO. H Salt lake Gity If there is anything the matter with your horses or stock use W. B. Chapman's LINIMENT For Man or Beast. If it does not Cure when all fails, don't pay for it. Get your money back. AT ALL DRUGGISTS Wholesale by V. A. NELDEN DRUG CO. Salt Lake City. I WHITE LEGHORORNS H ' LAYING STRAIN OF COCKERELS f H Thcsfc birds will probably lay as many eggs, right now, as some V H i of your hens Whatl Hens don't lay any eggs now? Well, ncith- H H cr do these cockerels, but their mothers, grand-mothers and great M H grand-mothers for thirty-fnc generations were selected layers M H from great egg producers and the egg laying habit is transmitted M ' Hj directly through the male line. If you arc not getting all the m H V c8gs you wish, try a cross from this laying strain. m (C. S. GORLINE I 1224 Bait 2 Sooth Street SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH I THREE CAR LOADS OF RE AUTOMOBILES H SHIPPED OUR COUNTRY TERRITORY IN MAY H WHO WILL BE THE NEXT BSS!l Jt 1 TO SHOW WISDOM ALONG KJHBJjj&rf H THESE LINES, TO SHOW TKJ I REMEMBER A REO AUTOMOBILE H CAN BE U5ED FOR A GREAT MANY PURPOSES TO YOUK H ADVANTAGE. H WRITE AND ASK US ABOUT THIS. SHARMAN AUTOMOBILE CO. H xog-iii W. So. Temple Street. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH I . The FAMOUS DANIELSEN DISC PLOW H It plows any width or any depth. H It it simple, strong, and easy to operate. B It is the only disc plow under complete control. OUR MACHINERY IS FULLY GUARANTEED Danielsen Plow Co. Bel! Phen 3101 H 210 5. 6th West. St. SALT LAKE CITY WRITE FOR. CATALOGUE AGRONOMY I This Department is Edited by Prof. J. C. Hogenson, of the Ag ricultural College. A number of interesting and com plimentary letters have been received with regard to my article on "A Weed and Pure Seed Law." I -am very glad that the farmers' arc inter ested in this work for it is certainly of vast importance. Now is the time to agitate the matter so that our next legislature will be able to act. A bill should be drafted cither by some interested person, a member of the legislature or not, and the far mers instruct the members of the legislature from their particular dis trict to vote for the bill, or else a circular letter gotten out and sent to each member of the legislature stat ing the nature, object and importance of the bill! becoming law. Now is the time to act Do it now. PASTURE GRASSES AGAIN. Layton, Utah, Oct. is, 1908. Editor Dcscrct Farmer: I have been much interested in the mixture of grasses for cow pasture that you have published at different times. Now pleasc state a mixture that would be' well to plant on low, wet ground! that is inclined to alkali. A SUBSCRIBER. Answer by Prof. J. C. Hogcnson. With regard to a mixture of grasses suitable to sow on low, wet ground that is inclined to alkali, will say that the first thing to do is to drain the Jand, if possible, to take away the excess of water and mincnail salts. As good a mixture as has been tried for this kind of land is as follows: 12 pounds red top, 12 pounds meadow foxtail, 12 poundfe of meadow fescue per acre. n - HOW SIZE OF SEEDS AFFECT YIELDS. There has been an enormous' in croase in he number of grain drills and fanning milla sold to farmers of the great central West during the last few years as compared with simi lar periods in the past. While we do not have any statistics at hand, we give it our opinion that there were ft more grain drills sold to farmers in 1 this area last year than have ever 1 been sold in any two years previous- ly. This being true, we may con- sider ourselves fairly well established in the grain drill era, and the mis take will surely not be made of us ing our drills to sow light seed. In order to give our readers a clear idea concerning the effect of size of seeds on production, we would like to give the substance of an address delivered last summer at a meeting of agronomists by the director of the ' Ontario Experiment Station, Prof, C. A. Zavitz. There is no man on the continent today as well qualified as Professor Zavitz to speak on this subject, for the simple reason that he has been carrying on extensive ex- I periments on this very line for a de- I cade and a half. What he says, therefore, is not the result of a single experiment or the experiments in a single year. His figures, to our way of thinking, arc absolutely conclu sive. In his experiments Professor Za vitz divided seed into three iclasscs, namely, the large, the medium and the small. The selections were made with great care by the use of sieves and by hand picking. He found that oats grown from the large seed for an average of seven years yielded sixty-two bushels per acre, while medium scel selected from the same supply of oats during the seven years averaged fifty-four bushels per acre, and side by side with this the small seed, taken from the same supply re member, yielded forty-six and one half bushels per acre. The average result of sawing large, plump barley seed for six years in succession was a yield of fifty-three , and one-half bushels per acre, while in the case of small, plump seed the yield was fifty bushels per acre. The difference in the -ciase of spring wheat was a little more than three and one-half bushels per acre in favor of the large seed, while in the case of winter wheat the large seed yielded six and one-half bushels per acre more than the small, plump seed. These figures indicate that in every ' instance the largest seed produced the greatest yield of grain. In his re port on root crops the results given