The Dickinson press., 1912-10-05

consequence, IN properly worked lands
and in the new lands of the state the
crop from the start was able to make q
vigorous growth very slightly interferred
with by seed and root diseases. The
high quality of seed associated with the
thoroughly we'll aerated condition of
the subsoil due t the drying out in the
previous two seasons combined to give
excellent conditions for crop growth and
seed production during this growth sea-
son the dry subsoil acting essentially as
well tile drained land.
The moral is evident: This year we
have had developed a very large + o of
seed in all the cereals. especially
wheat and fax. There have been, how
ever. unfortunate harvest conditions
almost uniformly throughout the state.
Especially in the eastern part of the
state rain has followed ram in such
close succession that it has been diff
cult for farmers to succeed in saving a
very large percentage of the grain with
out having it subjected to moisture and
mould growths in the manner indicated.
There is therefore all the greater reason
Tor exercising greatest caution with re-
gard to selecting the best, driest, hard
est grain that each farmer has succeed
ed in producing. Each farmer should
at least save some of the best of his
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 a consid-
cradle amount of high quality grain un-
der dry conditions they will prove ben
efactors to their neighbors and to the
state at large if they will save as much
OF this as possible for sale to others.
letting the fact be known regarding the
quality which they may have for sale.
Caution With Regard to Threshine,
Storing and Marketing Flax Seed: A
word of caution in regard to the hand
ling of flax 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 fax
while it was wet or while the atmos-
phere was damp. Nature provides the
flax plant with a cover for it's seed
which protects the seed, but after it is
threshed and threshed damp it is al
most impossible to get that seed to mar
ket n .any large volume before it is:.spoil-
ed. Hundreds of farmers shipped in car
loads Of flax which vas bought by CON-
mission men at a very low price for the
reason that it was damp, mouldy and
spelling in the cars. l believe it is
safer to leave the fax we'll punched or
reasonably we'll 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 in 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, u%nthreshed
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 speed
lily as possible we will inform you 90
to its purity and vigor of growth. All
our farmers should remember that such
seeds as corn, flax and barley in par
ticular cannot stand being frosted in
the presence of moisture.
Agricultural College. North Dakota.
September 26, 1912.