Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-03-29
ABSORBED GOOD
SEED SENTIMENT

UeSU kluuS WnlCn we nave gathered
from North Dakota and the adjoin-
ing belt of country in Minnesota.
| do not advocate sowing badly
shrunken, weak seed grain, and very
few of you will have to do that if
you will grade it up with tanning
mill. 1t will pay you to screen out
the poorest half of the wheat you use
for seed, even when you use wheat
grown in. a good season. If you do
not think it will amount to any
thing try it with a fine sample of
wheat and measure a thimble fu II of
the grain from each side of your
tanning mill and see which pile has
the most berries in it You will find
that you have increased the size
of your seed and that it
will pay you we'll for your trouble.
The principle which you are using
is the same as you have been accus-
toned to all your life in breeding
live stock. It is the same process as
saving your best heifers and cows,
and of securing the best bull that
you can find. If you have a poor
strain of wheat, get good one and
then grade your seed each year by
screening out the smaller half of the
kernels and you will improve it.
Have piece of ground that is free
from weeds, and SOW the very best
of your wheat upon it to grow seed
grain from the next year. That is
the way to make a pedigreed wheat,
and the way to keep up good strain
of seed. Seed grain will not ''run
out" if you handle it in that way.
Your seed should be grown upon
fallow, corn or potato ground Of the
year before to avoid volunteer grain
from the previous crop springing up
among it and forming a mixed sam
pie of seed. Durum or macaroni
wheat readily becomes mechanically
mixed with bread wheat and heavy
loss results as the miller can not man
ufacture the mixed grain into flour
to good advantage, and, in c0nse-
tquence, the price of it is reduced ON
. the market.
! Smut, wilt, blight, rot and other
diseases attack the crops by way of
seed. The purpose of seed treatment
is to kill the spores of disease which
are on the seeds, without injuring
the termination power OF the seed.
The treatments which we recon-
mend prevent disease, hasten matur--
ity and increase the yield.
If less than the strength recon-
mended is used, the disease produc-
ing spores will not be destroyed. Ii
a stronger solution is used the seed
will be injured or killed. TO make
the solution, add sixteen avoirdu-
pois ounces of $40 per cent for
maldehyde to forty or forty-fye gall
Ions of water. ~
Dip, sprinkle and shovel, spray, or
run through dipping machine, in
deed, in anyway, so that all of the
grains become damp over the entire
surface. Avoid using too much solu-
tion. Too much only softens and
swells the seed and Injuries it. All
one wishes is to kill the smut spores
1t takes about three-fourths gallon
of solution per. bushel of wheat.
In other grains the smut spores are
lodged inside the chatf scales The
) treatment must be thorough enough
) SO that the solution can soak be-
tween the scales. Dipping is all
J, right for these grains, but it pays to
! shovel the grain over several times
to insure the even distribution of
the liquid. II the sprinkling 3and
shoveling method is used, the grain
should be shoveled thoroughly, and
! be WEI up once or twice. These
), grains take about one and one-half
; to two gallons of solution per bushel.
Clean tie fax SO thoroughly that
) there is nothing left in it but plump
) yellow seeds. The treatment cannot
kill the fungus in the old straws,
), bits of chaff and in the black, shrivel
& ed seeds.
Flax. Apply the solution slowly
and evenly, with constant shoveling tc
: PREVENT mating. A small force pump
with finely perforated nozzle, set tc
! throw a misty spray, does the best
J work. One-half gallon of the soIu.
!, tion should be used per bushel Of
) flax. More care must be taken with
) flax than with other grains, but the
!, work is fast and easy. This treat.
!, ment has now been tried by many
! farmers and all report success. Dc
d not sow on old diseased fax ground
: rotate.
/ Soak the potatoes one and one-hal1
j hours in a solution made at the rate
t Iof one pound Of formaldehyde te
!. thirty gallons Of water. Then cut
and plant as usual. Do not plan,