The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, January 12, 1920, Page 10

ADVERTISEMENTS Raise No. 1 Grain— Cut Out the Dockage Thousands of acres of good land are sown every year with poor seed grain, and the result shows not only in low grades and dockage when the crop is sold, but the soil is infested with weeds. volunteer crops the next year. THE STRESE GRADER Mustard, wild oats, etc., come up in Will take the weed seed and the shriveled and im- perfect grain out of your seed. It turns easily by hand crank, but. is equipped with belt pulley and succotash attachment. - It is strongly built and has no screens or riddles to get out of oxder. The new Strese Blast method is the most thorough and rapid way of cleaning grain yet discovered. It Will Clean Any Kind of Grain It works as well on alfalfa or clover seed as on corn, There are no screens to change and few wear- ing parts to get out of order. The grading is done by an air blast which takes out everything that is under weight or over weight as carefully as though every grain of seed was weighed separately and selected by hand. This machine will make money for you in improved seed and consequent improved crop yield. Send for full information and suggest a dealer through whom you would ilke to buy if satisfied. The machine is guaranteed by the manufacturer. "Seed Selection by Weight and Size Official Tests Show Necessity of Taking Both Factors Into Consideration [} =] IZE of kernels is not ‘a | safe test by itself in the selection of grain for seed. In the case of oats, especially, large kernels may be mostly “double oats.” Selection of grain by weight is a much more accurate test. How important it is to select seed carefully is indicated by experiments with winter wheat at the Nebraska experiment station. Over two years heavy wheat seed gave an average production of 29.4 bushels per acre, as compared with 24.8 bushels per acre from light seed planted under the same conditions. A similar ex- periment at the Minnesota experiment station with heavy and light-weight oats gave an increase of nine and one- half bushels per acre in favor of the principle of weight, rather than one that will merely separate large ker- nels from small ones. The diagram - illustrates one type of fanning mill that has proved practical in farm op- erations. Screen 1 should be coarse enough to let the grain through. It is used heavy seed. A fanning mill should, then, be se- lected that will separate grain on the E. F. Strese Co, 13}, Central Ave, N. E. Diagram of side-shake fanning mill for separating seed grain. simply to run off sticks and straw. Board 2 carries the grain backward in the mill, so as to let it drop through the blast at once. The light kernels - are blown past the end of screen 3, the heavier kernels fall on screen 3. Board 2 may be moved forward or backward to throw a large or small per cent of grain on screen 8, as desired. Screen 3 should be coarse enough to let the small*kernels through onto screen 4. Screen 3 is adjustable as to slant and may be moved forward or back- ward to regulate the amount of grain it will catch. Screen 4 is fine enough to carry nearly all of the grain over into market grain. Any side-shake mill may be fixed up in this way. Sep- aration by weight can not easily be made with the end-shake mills, but the large kernels can be separated from the small ones in any proportion desired, simply by using coarse or fine screens in the lower part of the mill. It must be remembered in sowing selected grain that a larger quantity must be sown by weight than with un- selected seed, as there will be a small- er number of kernels per bushel. 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