The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1912-04-13
STARK GO.
Fortunate
So Says Prof. Bolley. Bowman
Gets Bad Dose. 1t Is Illegal
to Sell Foul Seed in
North Dakota.

Prof. H. L. Bolley Of the Agricultural
college was in Dickinson last Saturday
on his way home to Fargo after long
hard trip in Billings and Bowman
counties, where he had been called to
inspect seed grain and help if possible
to straighten out some knotty problems
in which the commissioners of those
counties seemed inyeiyed. J. r.
Campbell. field inspector, also from the
A. c.. had been out In the aforesaid
territory even longer than Prof, Bailey.
procuring seed grain samples.
Prof. Bol]ey gets an average of 100
inquiries per day regarding seed grain
and he did not want to make this trip,
as it naturally kept hundreds of people
all over the state waiting for answers
and tests. Further than this. he knew
that it was of very little use for hin
to come out here to pass on grain that
the farmers were waiting to SOW. 1t
was so late that it was impossible for
them to get other grain. However.
the commissioners of Billings county
and farmers of both counties raised
such a storm that he finally dropped
his important work at the busiest sea-
son of all the year at the state labora-
tory and came.
Prof. Bolley found the conditions very
unsatisfactory. especially at Bowman,
and had it not been for the lateness of
the season he would have started pros
ecution at once against the companies
Offering such seed to farmers. Our
state law is very strict in this particu-
lar. However, MIR. Bolley considered it
question of the farmers having the
grain offered or none for their land this
season and instead of starting prose-
cutions. as he would have done if his
attention had been called to the wrong
in season, he told the farmers to clean
the grain. In fact, one of the grain
companies at Bowman offered to get
in four of the new model cleaning
mills which are supposed to clean oats
by taking out the wild grain.
Prof. Bolley considers it criminal
offense to spread wild oats and other
foul seed over large portions of Western
North Dakota. He said the oats offered
were exceptionally good with this ex-
ception. He also said that most of
the wheat was fairly good if it had
only been cleaned
In Stark county Mr.. Bolley found the
samples OF wheat. with two or three
exceptions, very good. Our commits
sioners. it will be remembered. rejected
the first shipment of several carloads
offered by the elevator company and
compelled the company to clean the
grain. Further than this. the COM
pany was not allowed to fill any of the
contracted orders with the farmers of
Stark until the Drain had first been in
late themselves that they got fairly
good seed.
| According to the Bowman Citizen
the farmers of Bowman came near
mobbina the commissioners down there.
They were so indignant that they rose
up in arms against the court house
officials and demanded that the $10.-
600 bond OF the Western Lumber 8.
Grain Co. be forfeited. However. the
100 protesting farmers found that the
bond had never been filed and they
then jeered the board and demanded
their resignation which they did not
get. 1t is also sal that the Drain
company had taken the precaution to
make every farmer aetting seed grain
sign receipt that he accepted the