The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1912-12-13

manner that the plants which come
from such seeds are Immediately at
tackled and the disease introduced to
the new land areas.
These facts, in part, help to explain
the very good crop of the present sea-
son. During the two dry seasons of
1910 and 1911 the conditions were not
at all favorable for the development of
such parasitic fungi in the straw and
upon the seed. In 1911 in particular
the seed harvested was plump, bright
and hard and dry and there was a COM
paratively small amount of disease in
troduced this year with the seed. As
a consequence, in properly worked
lands and in the new lands of the state
the crop from the start was able to
make vigorous growth very slightly
interfered with by seed and rootdiseas-
es. The high quality of seed associated
with the thoroughly well aerated con-
dition of the subsoil due to the drying
out in the previous two seasons COM
bined to give excellent conditions for
crop growth and seed production dur
ing this growing season, the dry SUBJ
soil acting essentially as we'll tile
drained land.
The moral is evident: This year we
have had developed very large crop
of seed in all the cereals, especially
in the eastern part of the state rain
has followed rain in such close success
sion that it has been difficult for farm
ers to succeed in saving very large
percentage of the grain without having
it subjected to moisture and mould
growths in the manner indicated. There
is, therefore, all the greater reason for
exercising great caution with regard to
selecting the BEST. dryesr, hardest grain
that each farmer has succeeded in pro-
ducing. Each farmer should at least
have some of the best of this grain
that he has been able to save under dry
conditions for his seed for the coming
year. Furthermore, if any have been
fortunate in saving considerable
amount of high quality grain under dry
conditions they will prove benefactors
to their neighbors and to the state at
large if they still save as much of this
as possible for sale to others, letting
the fact be known regarding the
quantity which they have for sale.
Caution with regard to threshing,
storing and marketing fax seed: A
word of caution in regard to the hand
ling Of fax seed for marketing is per-
haps not out of place at this time. The
experience of last year teaches us that
very many farmers lost great sums of
money by threshing their flax while it
was wet or while the atmosphere was
damp. Nature provides the flax plant
with cover for its seed, but after it is
threshed and threshed damp, it is al
most impossible to get that seed to
market in any large volume before it is
spoiled. Hundreds of farmers shipped
in carloads of flax which was brought
by commission men at very low price
for the reason that it was damp, mouldy
and spelling in the cars. / believe it is
safer to leave the fax well punched or
reasonably well stacked out doors
throughout the entire winter than it is
to thresh it while it is wet, The loss
due to the. seed being left I'M the damp
straw and to the heating of the damp
flax seed after it is threshed has, by the
experience of the past, been, found to
greatly exceed that of the possible loss
in reasonably we'll punched unthreshed
straw which remains out over winter
and which was threshed when dry in
the spring. +
We will be pleased to receive at the
pure seed laboratory samples of seed
held for sowing purposes and as speedily
as possible we will inform you as to its
purity and vigor of growth. All our
farmers should particularly remember
that such seed as corn, flax and barley
in particular cannot stand being frosted
in the presence of moisture. III. Bolley
Court Adjourned Saturday
Judge adjourned district court Satur-
day morning in time for all witnesses