Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1902-08-14

soils by the way of the seed. To avoid
doing this it will be necessary to take
about all of the following precautionary
steps in the saving Of seed for future
crops:
Study your fax as it is growing in the
fields.
Select patch which is Of even growth,
free from weeds and sure to ripen.
Learn to know the plants which are
sick with the wilt disease and look care
fully for such dry wilted plants in the
drills throughout the area.
If you can find patch which is free
from disease plants, save this fax for
seed. At this time, new land fax is apt
to he most free from disease.
Thresh it when dry.
Store it dry in clean bin.
Grade this seed in tanning mill until
only plump bright colored seeds remain.
Then treat the seed by the formalde.
hyde spray and shovel method.
Every one of these steps are necessary
ones in the process Of preventing the
occurrence of aax.sick soil. Full reasons
cannot be given in 80 short an article
but they are about as follows: One must
raise and select his own seed from the
field because general crop will nearly
always have some disease in it, and Gle.
yatoTs are full of diseased samples. Damp
fax seeds collect and hold the spores of
the disease. Unless fax is all ripe the
immature fax will make the rest damp.
As one cannot be sure that there are no
diseased plants in the crop, it is neces-
sary that all Of the bits Of straw and chat
should be removed by thorough clean.
ing; for the treatment Is not strong
enough to kill the parasite in such straws
and chat. If such particles are sowed
with the seed, the disease will be started
in the soil.
It is also very evident that no scaly
ehriveled fax seed should be put in the
ground; for it is found that the wilt fun.
81 live inside such seeds and thus treat
ment of such will be Intellectual. One
should treat the sound, plump seeds in
order to kill any free lying spores which
may be amongst or upon them.
Further Precautions-After this care
has been taken with the seed, I recon-.
mend these further precautions:
Sow all fax on a compact, even seed
bed.
Sow fax seed as shallow as possible and
yet have it we'll covered.
Sow smaller areas to fax, and meyer
follow fax by fax until a number oil
years have interviewed.
recommend the following series OF
crops until we have learned reasons TO,
q better one:
Flax.
Wheat, oats or barley.
Corn or other cultivated crop or fallow.
Wheat.
Grass.
Grass.
Pasture one or more years, then fax
If desired.
Finally do not allow any fax straw o,
waste to get into the manure. Burn it.
It will be- impossible to feed fax straw
and not have flax.sick land wherever
such manure is applied. Find some way
if possible, by which practically all the
fax stubble may be raked or scraped out
of the land and burn before fax stubble
land is plowed.
sincerely hope that the farmers Of
this state may quickly appreciate the
serious nature of this soil disease and
begin at once to take all necessary pre-
cautions to keep their farms free from
the trouble. At the experiment station
We hold ourselves ready to answer all
questions, which we can answer. prompt
ly. and desire to learn from any farmer
such experience as he may have had
with the disease, success with methods
OF seed treatment, success or failure with
methods of cultivating, etc.
In regard TO any such matters Of plant
disease, write to the Botanical Depart.
ment of the agricultural college.
Government Experiment Station fol
North Dakota.
July 18th. 1902.