Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-05-15

kinds of farmers make success of diff
ferent kinds OF rotation, but it is Ger
tain that a good crop rotation should
be practised. Our experiments show
that it makes considerable difference
what this rotation is. No ordinary
rotation will prevent the introduction
of disease, If flax crop follows flax
crop much oftener than once in five
years. Flax does particularly we'll on
properly cultivated corn ground and
has great partially for sod lands
and should either follow grass and
pasture lands or corn or other cult.
waited crop. In the case of corn OF
cultivated crop, the good results come
from the thorough packing which the
ground receives the previous year, due
to the tramping of the horses and the
persistent shallow cultivation. The
ground should not be plowed or
worked deeper than it was worked
during the corn cultivation period. On
the sod lands the blowing should be
as deep as possible and yet have the
fore the sod is plowed, it should be
thoroughly disced on the surface
ahead of the pillow to loosen up some
fine dirt to make the connection be.
tween the sod and subsoil. After
blowing, the sod should be disced ana
narrowed and sub.surface packed un-
til it is certain that there Is a good
connection established between the
sub.soil and the furrow slices.
Preparation Of the Seed Bed.>
In preparing the seed bed for flax,
every effort should be made to make
it as firm as possible and as shallow
as possible, leaving only enough
mulch to cover the seed so that the
drill working at about one-half to
three-fourths Of an inch deep will
strike moist, firm earth. This means
that the previous cultivation should
be such as to conserve the moisture.
Flax can stand lots of punishment and
can produce crop Of seed with per-
haps less rainfall than any other of
the small grains, provided it can first
get well rooted in moist firm seed
bed.
When to Sow.
Sow as early in the spring as pos
sible, yet avoid having the young
plants frosted as in that way the crop
may ripen before the hottest days OF
summer, or else, in the warmer re.
gions, SOW sufficiently late that the
maturing processes may take place in
the cooler autumn months and yet
avoid frost in the fall. Excellent
crops are raised under both condi-
tions but the crop is never success
fully grown when the crop must do its
main development during the hottest
weather.
Rate of Seeding.
For seed production, SOW not to ex-
coed fourteen quarts of good flax seed
on any soil. If all the seeds grow,
sixteen to eighteen pounds will give
plenty of plants on properly pre-.
pared seed bed. They will be sturdier
ana give better seed production.
Seed Treatment.
No matter how hard one works on
the seed bed or how carefully he Sc
1ects the seed, if he does not disin-
lect the seed before planting, the work
will be largely lost, for in few years
the ground will become infected SO
that, regardless of good methods, q
crop cannot grow.
Treatment.
Treat the seed with formadehyde,
using standard furmaldehyde at the
rate of sixteen ounces avoirdupois to
forty gallons of water. Use q spray
pump which will throw a forceful,
misty spray. After the seed is all
cleaned in the tanning mill, throw it
down on a tight floor or canvas and
rake or shovel it over while 1t is being
sprayed with the solution. Rake,
spray and shovel slowly until you
have put on at least one.half gallon
Of solution for each dry bushel of |
seed. Pile the seed up in a pile,
cover with canvas and it will be right !
% SOW in approximately two hours.
Treat in the morning that which you
wish to sow in the afternoon. Treat
n the afternoon what you expect to
lse in the morning. caution.-While
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