Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-01-22
Prof. BolIey |P|reprrilng Bill
Along Lines Suggested by
National SeedSmen i
Effort Will Be Made to Pro-
teCt Farmers Ffom
Foul Seeds


fessor Bolley went to Washington as
delegate to represent the North Dakota
Agricultural College Experiment station
at the meeting of the National and
State Seed commissioners and the vari-
Gus experiment station workers who
are engaged in Investigations upon agri
cultural seeds. The meeting was called
by the department of agriculture for
the purpose of bringing the different
workers together that they might CO.
ordinate their work to certain extent
and gain such ideas from each other
that it might be possible to bring about
more uniform methods of sampling,
testing, and Analysing seeds. There
were some thirty representatives pres
ent, including representatives from
Canada. An organization was formed
known as the American Association of
Official Seed Analysts. Officers were
elected and committees appointed to
take up the different types of work that
were discussed.
Professor Bolley reports that it is his
belief that this meeting will result in
much good to the future of agricul-
ture 1t was the opinion of most of
the men present that there is no field
of agricultural investigation which Of
fers larger possibilities of benefting the
farmers of the country. Suggestions
regarding features which are most de-
sirable to be incorporated in state and
national laws, looking toward seed
control were taken into consideration
and discussed so that the various men,
bers had an opportunity to have a good
understanding of the matter as under
stood by the workers in the different
states. A number of states have laws
which are wholly cumbersome and in
effective. The last legislature of North
Dakota had up for consideration a bill
which in the opinion of most of the men
present at the Washington meeting
would prove beneficial if enacted as a
law.
T Professor Bolley is now engaged upin
making such notifications in this bill as
the experience of the past two years
indicate would tend to make it of great
est service to the people of the state.
1t is to be hoped that when this bill
comes before the legislature that it will
give it very careful attention
One of the points learned at the
Washington meeting was that many of
the representatives expected great
things from North Dakota in the way
of the production of clover seed for ex-
port from the state. The showing made
by those farmers who are interested in
the growing clover seed has been
so fine and the demand for the seed is
so large that it is believed that North
Dakota will eventually prove to be one
of the greatest producers of this crop.
1t is of the utmost Importance that dod-
der and other clover pests should be
kept out of the clover lands of the state,
as the value of the seed product is great
ly reduced as soon as these seeds are
present. 1t is we'll known fact that a
number of wholesale hosues are engag-
ed in the purchase of dead clover and
alfalfa seed and weed seeds such as
that of yellow trefoil, for no other pur-
pose than to adulterate the good seed
which is produced in the lover-growing
sections of the United States.
North Dakota should have seed con-
troll station which has facilities for con-
Quoting seed testing, seed analysis, etc,
IN the most approved manner, and |
which through its publications will al
low the farmers and the merchants of
the state to know where the worthy
are and who are disreputable
in this business