Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1906-05-04

plant and 1t the present time our
hnoYl1oCs 10 vesy complete.
20 ~ experiment stations OF the
AGriovlture colleges at Minneapolis
ADD Fargo We are indebted for the
sseateF part Of this knowledge. and
especially to the Fargo school, where
Professor Henry L. Bolley has been
xntiriaS in his efforts to improve the
yield and quality OF faxssed. The re-
suits Of hts study are summarized in
the following recommendations:
Use only plump. bright solored FAX
for seed. Treat all seed FAX every
year; the treatment was found by
many farmers TO be . great success in
1909. Before treating clean all seed
thoroughly In . flaming mill until all
bite Of straw and chat az well as light
weight seeds have been removed or
blown out. The treatment recon.
mended will not kill the fungus which
IL always to be found inside diseased
straw aud ehan because It cannot
penetrate to 1t. Ia a diseased crop
most of the light weight, dark solored
and soaly seeds bsar the fungus on the
inside Of the aSsd coats. Such seeds
must bo removed, for the treatment
cannot prevent these from injecting
the soil.
use formaldehyde at tho rate Of
oae pound Of the standard strength to
forty gallons Of water. Spread the
seed upon q tight floor, or upon can
vas, and sprinkle or spray on small
amount et the liquid "a fine spray
thrown by 4 small force pump IL bsst).
Shovel. hoe or rake the grain over rap.
idly. Repeat the spraying, shoveling,
hoeing or rakinS until the surfaces of
III the seeds are evenly moist. not
wet enough to mat or gum. but thor.
ovshly damp. This can b accom-
plishsd without mating. II we'll hoed
or shoveled over. Leave the grain
piled for several hours. The dry grains
will absorb the excess OF moisture
without injury or mating and the
spores Of the disease will bs killed by
the fumes. H takes about one-haR
gallon OF water solution to properly
wet one bushsl OF faxseed.
after this care has been taken with
the seed l recommend these further
precautions:
Sow all fax on compact, even seed
bed, as shallow as possible and yet
have it we'll covered. Sow smaller
areas to flax and never follow fax by
fax until number of years have in
tervened. l recommend the following
series of crops until we have learned
reasons for better one:
FLAX.
Wheat. oats or barley.
"Corn. or other cultivated crop, or
fallow.
Wheat.
"Grass.
pasture ono or more years, then
aax if desired
About rotation Professor Bolley
says:
1T will be great source of wealth
to Northwestern farmers if. unlike all
others heretofore, they can so nearly
eradicate the diseases Of FAX from
their seed fax and from the soil that
they may continue to produce good
crops OF fax. Think what a boon to
this region it would Be If the farmers
may continue to produce a. heavy
crops OF tax on thelf lands In the fu.
turs ~ they do now upon new land.
This 10 new doctripe. ut I Do not
hesitate to say that such en- h the
case and even much better oops than
are now grown. Rememhls that II
was once quite generally 61sa that "a
one could toll how to avoid the occur.
renee Of smut IN wheat and oats"
However, the writer's idea that fax
seed should have q place % 4 regular
rotation crop 10 based on the thsory
that . diversity Of crops will bring the
largest financial returns and this the
cry has been put into execution. With
satisfactory results, by one Of thu
largest and possibly most successful
OF North Dakota's bonanza farmers
And II such was the result of his ex
psrienee on the last crop. the 100.
crop. whom his fax sold at only IL Il
II cents over wheat, there is all the
more reason for expecting still better
returns this year, as wheat has de
clined 6 to s cents from the prices paiG
last fall, while fax has advanced q
| 70 q cents.