Caption: War Publications - WWI Compilation 1923 - Article 37
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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS Agricultural Experiment Station URBANA, ILLINOIS, MARCH, 1918 I CIRCULAR No. 214 ^ SHALL WE PLANT MORE SPRING WHEAT? * * BY W. L. BURLTSON 1 1 A Real Need for Spring Wheat.—Last summer when the United [ Department of Agriculture launched a campaign for more wheat, J Illinois was asked to increase the acreage planted to this crop by & percent. The campaign was begun after many farmers had planned their cropping systems for 1918. It was not possible, thcreJ tore to increase the acreage of winter wheat sufficiently to meet this demand. The only way in w'hich the state can now attempt to do what is expected of it is to increase the acreage of spring wheat. It may not be possible to increase the Illinois wheat crop 24 * percent, but it will be possible to add considerable in this direction. | There is a great shortage of wheat in the country and every acre which can be put into spring wheat with a possibility of success 8hould be seeded to this crop. Where to Grow Spring Wheat.—Spring wheat does best in cool climates. Northern Illinois can afford to seed a larger acreage of spring wheat than it has put in heretofore. Counties north of a line connecting the southern boundaries of Kankakee and Mercer counties are within the spring wheat /.one. Counties south of this line and north of a line drawn between the southern boundaries of Cham* paign and Adams counties are generally considered as out of the zone of spring wheat product ion, but even in these counties there is likely to be a large acreage of s p r i n g wheat planted this year. ('Phis statement is m a d r ou the basis of numerous incjuiries which are coming from patriotic people of these counties.) hi localities iu the southern p a r t of cenlral Illinois some Spring wheal may also be planted. In \j*oi',itr chief in Crop Prod tvet. Ion, I
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