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Newspaper
Hershey Press
Location
Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1915
Page
7
The Department of Agriculture released its July crop report outlining estimated areas, yields, and total production for major crops. It shows winter and spring wheat, corn, oats, potatoes, tobacco, hay, and apples with percentages of normal condition and per acre yields, indicating a large crop year ahead.
Pioneer farmer Seager Wheeler, born on the Isle of Wight, emigrated to Saskatchewan in the eighties. He developed hand selection to breed high quality seed wheat, winning $1000 at the 1911 New York Land Show and multiple prizes through 1914, while improving yields from forty five to eighty bushels per acre on small plots and thirty to thirty five on large fields. He first cultivated Preston wheat, then refined it by removing red chaff and selecting for white grain, spikelet-rich heads, and vigorous plants to produce uniform, superior seed for reproduction and higher farm prosperity.
The article reports that about 250000 horses valued at at least 50000000 dollars were sent to Europe since the war began, with nine months ending in March showing large export totals and rising prices. It notes buyers are experienced veterinaries, front line use, and estimates 100000 horses killed every fortnight. It cites 21,000,000 US horses and 4,500,000 mules remaining domestically.
The article notes that stony loam soils aid heavy or clayey soils by improving water perviousness, but a stony soil does not guarantee productivity. For profitable apples amid keen competition the soil must be productive or capable of becoming productive and staying so, despite claims of advantages from stony hills.
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