Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-06-16
morning. 36 for 25c at all drug.
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Ofice-over First National Bank
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ready to take four kernels from differ
ent parts of each ear, care being taken
not to take kernels from the butt or
the tip. If ore has a discarded table
oil cloth it may be cut into pieces as
large as the flannel. This is attached
on one end and placed over
the corn. THIS prevents the
sprouts from growing through the
cloth and keeps the kernels in place.
This tester is called the rag doll. 1t
is now rolled up, tied, moistened and
placed in a covered tin vessel. Air
must be allowed to circulate freely
during the termination. Every seed
should terminate, thus showing a via
ti!ity Of 100 per cent. If any Of the
kernels eff an ear fail to terminate,
that ear should be discarded. The test
should be completed at the end of
five days. The temperature should be
3 TX a. oDOuC on W OO oSSlSSS L l ii
heit.
Testing Wheat, Oats, and Barley.
The rae doll has always given me
better results than any other method
I have tried. |. count out 100 seeds
at random and place them on the rag
doll. A small piece of paper with the
name and date can be placed on each
sample. 1t is we'll to test samples in
Duplicate, and be certain. that the sam
pie is a representative of your bin. The
rag doll is rolled up and treated in the
same way as in the test for corn. At
the end OF five days, the termination
should be complete for the wheat and
cats. about six days is required, how.
ever, for barley. The viability should
be from 80 to 100 per cent.
Testing Alfalfa and Glover.
Take a piece of blotting paper and
cut it into four ;pch squares. Moisten
them, but do not allow the seed to lie
in water. Count out 10O-seeds at ran.
dom and place on the blotters, place
blotters between two tin plates, the
upper n upside down. At the end
of five days the test is complete, and
80 per cent is considered a good ger.
mination.
Weed Seed.
The most common weed seeds found
in alfalfa, clover, and cereals are: Rus
sian thistle, green and yellow ~foxtail,
lambs quarters, pigweed, ragweed,
barnyard grass, tickle grass, bull this
tie, marsh elder and field mustard.
These are generally classified as harm.
less weed seed. All weed seeds are
harmful if they are allowed to grow
in Great numbers in any field, since
they are robbing the plants of plant
food and moisture.
The noxious weeds either act as par.
asites or have perennial creeping root.
stocks which infect the cultivated field
SO that farming becomes very unproft.
able. Quack grass, field dodder, clover
dcdder, wild oats and Canada thistle
are known as very noxious weeds, and
any farm seed containing any of these
weed seeds should not be sown. Bronze
grass seed very frequently contains
ouack grass, although no quack grass
is known to have been found west Of
the Missouri river at present. How
ever, If seed containing this noxious
weed is scwn it may be but a short
time until 1t spreads over the entire
state.
Buy from Samples.
II you r buying seed from a small
seed house or from a reliable CONNER.
cial firm 1t is we'll to send for a sample.
Test the sample for termination, and
II you find any weed seed in 1t send
it to the state college at Brookings
for Identification. It takes but a short
time to make such a purity test, but a
termination test requires from Ave to
t~wenty-eight days. Time is saved in
this way and a purchase can be made
before the stock is exhausted.