The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-01-20
Who Can Help Save the
Flax Crop Of the Northwest

In contact with every farmer in his
neighborhood sometime during the
year. He can help save the flax crop
by producing small, compact, strong,
condensed air sprayers suitable for
spraying flax seed with the formalde-
hyde solution; by distributing litera-
ture and by helping the farmers of his
neighborhood to understand how to
use the sprayer
The Real Estate Man.
co. The real estate man can HELM
save the fax crop because, while they
are enjoying themselves riding about
the country, they have every sort of
opportunity to come in contact with the
farmer and disseminate the informa-
ton necessary to get each and every
individual farmer to CO. operate in this
sort of work. They, through their OPP
portunity to sell land, can easily con-
vince the farmer that it will not pay
him to allow his land to become con-
taminated by weeds and plant diseases.
1t is worth more to a real estate man
to sell land worth $50 an acre than it
is to struggle hard to sell weedy un-
sanitary lands that must be sold at less
than $25 per acre.
Commercial Clubs.
ID Commercial and business clubs
OF each and every city and town can
help save the flax crop. Let the bust
ness organizations of the various
neighborhoods wake up and look about
them and see whether it is not adj
visable for them to take an interest in
educating the farmers in their immed-
Tn,
of the northwest would it not be ex-
tremely profitable for the organized
business men of the various villages
and towns to take such steps as would
be necessary to organize the farmers
into active growers of clean, bright,
high-yielding crops, rather than foul,
improbable ones? The farmer can
not help the banker, the hardware man,
the druggist, etc., get rich if he,
through his methods and the methods
| of the neighborhood, is brought to the
point where his average crop scarcely
pays for the work Of production.
Newspapers
CD The newspapers of the state
can help save the flax crop Indeed,
as far as l know, no newspaper has
refused to print any information which
the Agricultural college has thought
desirable to place before the farmers
of the state. The newspapers are
helping to- save the fax crop.
The Farmers.
CD The farmers themselves can, and
probably will save the flax crop as
a permanent rotation in the north
west. The reason why they failed to
maintain it in Illinois, Indiana. Iowa
and other of the older states rested
wholly in the fact that they did not
know that certain diseases destroy the
crop as soon as they once gain con-
troll of the land They simply ceased
to grow the crops, not because they
wanted to but simply because they
had to. The farmers Of the northwest
have an opportunity to know different
ly from this. 1t is now possible for
them to know, if they are willing to
try that flax seed can be selected
gathered and treated in such man.
ner as to make it perfectly safe ia
SOW on new land, and If they carry out
a reasonable rotation there is no reas
on why the fax crop should not con-
tinue to be a permanent element in the
general agriculture of the northwest
To bring this about, however, the
farmers must organize themselves in
every community and cooperate, be-
cause it is necessary that all farmers
understand this matter and act upor
it to get the best results One can not
very well keep disease out of his owr
house If his neighbors Violate ali laws
of health.