Eastern Utah advocate. [volume] (Price, Utah) 1895-1915, 1914-04-09

-" - rtfN FAENNu VI AUE year.
fellow farmers. that our profks a
the year largely depend on. wlnh
to repeat the statement that l have
made previous % the that We
should prepare our seed bod with
great care. being SIRE 20 keen a
good mulch on the ground. Con
unue cultivafing the ground un.si
u is time 20 plant IN order 70 con
serve the moisture and aoriate the
coil. Planting OF seed should not
be done until the soil and weather
becomes warm. This would riye
the weeds a chance 20 become
sproutcd and be destroyed before
planting the grain.
DO not cultivate alfalfa with
culuvator or spring toothed harrow
until you make sure the growing
scason = on and that the growth
Of the plants viii not Be retarded
through the plants being torn open
and exposed. However. harrow Inn
ms-iiaieiy. AZ you have not already
done -. with spike toothod har-
row IN order 90 make mulch on
the snrfacc Of the rround that will
conserve the moisture. Juat ~
soon a. the alfalfa Il about two
inches high and the growing season
IL here Rsi On 90 the alfalfa 'wish
a spring toothcd harrow and Guilt
waite vigorously each way.
DO not pruno your apple and
pear trees until the middle OF sum
mer unles you want wood growth.
Summer A. the time OF year 60
prune for fruit.
De sure 90 grade and treat your
grain before planting Il h sur
prising TO note the great amount Of
filth and small korncls OF grain
that win not gcrrninate that In IA
ken out OF the grain with a tanning
mill that you might Otherwise nee
for seeding purposes. n a tanning
min n not used. Also under all
odds do not plant wheat. oats or
barley without first treating Il With
formalln OF copper euiphate lblue
vitrioD. In using the formalin mix
ono pint OF formalin With forty gal
Ions OF water. The sinking smut
cf wheat. oat smut and covered
smut Of barley vail be killed by the
formalin treatment. Dip the seed
IN burlap aacks info a barrel or
tank containing the formaiin solu-
ton. and leave a there for ten min
uics. LII the sack np and down
time or two 90 drive out the air.
Then pile tho grain up for two
hours and then spread Il out 10
dry.
some farmers may say they do
not have any smut. but they do not
know. even though Their grain was
clean the year before. when a sack
Of smutty grain Il fhrcshed. The
thrcshing maohinc becomes covered
with smut In every crack and crew
leo. There are billions 81 these
spores in the machine after one
smutty stack OF grain has been
throahed. Tho machine carries the
spores 10 che next farmer and oven
though this farmer has oioan grain
HE grain Il covered with smut from
the previous farmer.
Alao lot Ne be careful about what
kind OF potatoes We plant. We have
three more or lcss SERIOUS potato
diseases In Utah---eariy blight. dry
rot (somofimen called the black rot
OF the brown rot or potato viii
and potato scab.
Dry rot Is Utahs most eerioua
potato pest. The disease lives over
winter IN the soil and In disoased
potatoes. n u the cause OF the
blackcned ring or area about one
fourth OF an Inch under the potato
skin. Only disease free seed poia-
toes should be used. Use none that
give evidence Of any kind OF dis
ease. Potatoes should not be plant
cd on the same ground two years
In succession or heavy iosses are
likely 70 occur.
Three things which are necessary
In the control OF potato diseases
are:
First-Piant only disease fires
tubens.
second--Kin spores adharing &c
these potatoes by soaking tho whole
potatoes in a formaiin soiuaaon ol
one pint An thirty gahcns OF watei
for two hours.
Third DO not plant potatoes on
the same land two years In success
sion. particularly II the potato ha1
been diseased,
ROBERT II. STEWART.