The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-25
CAN TELL WHEAT
WHEN THEY SEE IT
'.CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FARM.
ERs'' ARE LEARNING.
Black-Rust Scare Has Prompted Trad
ers to Study the Practical Side Of
Farming They Are Busy with
Books and Are Looking In on Work
at State Farm.

One effect Of the black-rust scare in
the northwest has been to stimulate
interest in agriculture on the part Of
the men who deal in grain in the mil
lions OF bushels every year, but, with
a few exceptions, know little Of the
practical work of grain production.
OF the "Chamber Of Commerce
often unjustly, been said that he yelis
his lungs out in the wheat pit, and
buys and sells great lots, but would
not know wheat if he saw it. Grossly
exaggerated as this statement is, It
is, nevertheless, true that many man
who cuts a figure at the chamber is
about as much at home with a treatise
or governmental report dealing with
the scientific side of a grain-produc-
be with a book of Greek drama in the
original. These tboys'' in the pit
have begun to find that this will
not do.
Last year, and again this year, rust
appeared in the spring wheat fields.
Everybody talks about rust. At their
homes, boarding houses, clubs or social
gatherings, someone is always sure to
bring up the embarrassing subject, and
to be dragged out as man who leads
in the wheat trade, and, therefore, is
supposedly an authority, and not to be
able to explain the difference between
rust, smut, blight or other plant affec-
tions, is to fall down suddenly in pres
tige.
The result has been general reach
ing out for reference books and works
of authority covering these subjects,
and the, wheat pit, ordinarily wholly
grabbing the big, round dollar, has
turned literary in great degree.
See the Varsity Farm.
! This week the Chamber Of Com
MERGE farmers have made another
great discovery. Right at their doors,
within easy reach by carriage, automo-
bile or street car, lies an institution
ranking with the best in America, and
leading the entire world in investigation
and original work in number of i'm.
thought about it the experiment station
or University farm at st. Anthony
park has been there all the time. Re.
Gently the grain men who have taken
to reading up on scientific agriculture
have looked about for a view of it in
the practical, and number have gone
warm in enthusiasm over the work be
ing done.
TO explain in any detail even the par
ticular lines Of work in which the sta
ton leads all others, would take much
space. 1t is sufficient to say that whe1
a man has taken up the study of 9
particular subject. and reached the
point where practical demonstration il
necessary, he can find it at the sta
ton, and can find a number of highly
informed, courteous men in charge
| always willing to impart the latest in
formation they may possess. A news
paper man went over the farm yester
day and a party Of grain men will e
out this afternoon. %r2 SIT
One Of the most striking illustra
tions apparent to the non-professiona
observer, who goes over the farm, are
the results obtained from crop rotation
as against continued planting Of the
same crop. Stands Of wheat and corr
may be seen side by side, the one show
ing twelve successive years without ro
tation the other broken into with other
crops at fve-year, or other time periods
and the difference in stand is so marked
that one need not be a farmer to see it
!