The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-06-28
MOTT GAVE
TRAIN BIG
RECEPTION
Towns Visited Today.
s. a. m.--Mott.
1: 80 p. m.-Elgin.
p. m.--Flasher.
Towns Scheduled Tuesday.
5 a. m.-Bismarck.
3 p. m.-Medina.

Mott, "the SPOT" down in the south
west corner of the state, gave the
farmers institute special train a rous-
ing welcome today, according to tele-
phone reports. This hustling new city
was prepared for big crowds and they
cameron fifty miles away-eager to
see and hear. None was disappointed.
This afternoon there was a double
celebration at Elgin and it was a red
letter day for the city. Besides the
farm institute special there was a big
county division mass meeting arranged
and one of the greatest crowds ever
assembled in Morton county was on
hand.
Ever since starting on the trip the
farmers institute special has had the
right of way, showing the great impor-
lance which the railroad attaches to
this work.
Rotation of crops can be approached
from a good many standpints. The
soil man urges rotation in order to
bring in crops that make different
drafts on the soil, that add organic
matter, that bring about different
methods of cultivation, so hat weeds
are killed out. The farm manager will
bring out these reasons, but he will
also emphasize the fact hat rotation
of crops brings in live stock, distrib-
utes the work, distributes income
while the plant disease expert urges
rotation because 1t brings in condi-
tons that are not favorable to the
development OF plant disease. In other
words, when the same crop is grown
several years in succession it enables
the plant diseases to accumulate from
year to year, while If a crop is intro
duced occasionally on which the dis
ease cannot live. they get starved out
In the seed car on the Northern
Pacific farmers institute train is a bis
exhibit Of the effects of plant diseases
on the different farm crops. For in.
stance there is the root rot, which
affects the roots Of the plant in sucf
a way that they + made incapable OF
taking up plant food, and so the plant
willis. Then there is the flax wilt
which attacks the flax plant and choke!
1t, so to speak, and 1t willis.
The fortunate thing about it all il
that the remedy is SO simple and il
is one that should by all means bt
applied in order to secure the hes
results from the soil.
In this a are also exhibits of weeds
n weed seeds. The nature of tn,
weeds are explained and direction!
given for graduating them. Demon.
STATIONS are also made in how to treat
a SEED n wheat so as to kill any
of the plant diseases that may be oil
the seeds themselves, as considerabl,
disease is introduced in the land ii
this way.
An interesting machine in this ex
hibit is a grain cleaner which will tax,
wild oats u of any grain, includin,
common oats. The feature of this il
a cloth with a nap on it, in which TIN
hairs of the wild oats get caught an,
carries IL out of the other grain, which
canont hang on In this way.
Another interesting exhibit is on
showing that when heavyweight see,
Is sown plump, bright seed is produced
] The plump seed has two advantages
first 1T contains a larger amount o
reserve food; second, 1t is usually FIRE
from disease, and again it indicate
that 1t has come from a strong, vigor
Gus mother plant.
The lessons learned from the see,
al are these: That the grain shouIt
be thoroughly cleaned to remove al
weed seeds and to also remove al
small kernels, saving only the plumr
bright ones for seed. Then this shout
be treated to kill any disease germ
that may be on the outside of tn
kernels, and the crop should be 70
tated.
The lecturers in charge Of this ca
are d. G.. Milbraith, plant disease ex
pert; William Mercer, flax expert, an
o. A. Stevens, seed expert.