The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1917-10-05
STATE EXPERT URGES EARLY
SELECTION FOR SPRING
PLANTING.
GOSSIP OF THE STATE HOUSE
a Review OF the Work Of the state
Government At the Capitol and
at the Various State
institutions.

Now is the time for farmers to store
their own seed corn for the coming
corn crop of South Dakota. urges Or
A. n. Hume, agronomist at South Ia
kota State college. He states that
the most important phase in onncc-
ton with seed corn is to make sure
that a sufficient amountof homegrown
ears are picked and stored in a suita
BILE place SO that they will be thor
oughly dry before freezing weather.
"A very good plan, and a safe one
suggests DR. Hume, sis to go out into
the corn field and rescue a lot Of COED
seed corn ears from the general crop
These selected ears may thus be
taken from the hardest, vigpr-
Gus stalks in the field and tied togeth-
er by the husks and hung against the
sunny side Of a building. They also
may be put on a regular seed corn
drier and hung in a dry attic, or under
a shed roof where there is good circu.
lation Of air. or perhaps stored on 4
commercial scale in a regular seed
corn house. There are many good
places TO store seed corn The main
danger is that the pressure of work
on the farm will cause US to neglect TO
make use of any OF them.
This year of all years we shouid
not FORGET the relation OF coming corn
crops to the food supply of the nation
and the prosperity of South Dakota.
Especially remember that next years
crop depends in considerable part up
on the mount and quality of corr
picked for seed.
1T is an open fact in South Dakota
that the quality of our corr crop com
pares favorably in the great markets
with that of states farther south No
question South Dakota is. and is to
be. one of the great corn states In
general, we produce more bushels Of
corn than we do wheat. This state Of
affairs is likely to continue because as
an average more human food can be
produced per acre with corn as a crop
than any other great cereal"
Preventing Animal Disease.
The animal health laboratory at
State college is now busy helping
farmers in the prevention of animal
diseases by distributing special bulle-
tin information and by making exam.
nations Of bloOds and other tissues
for the presence of germs. when sam.
pies arc sent in by farmers and vet
erinarians. This service is free to all
the live stock interests of the state.
DR.. G.. G. Lipp. college veterinarian.
has already issued two special bulle-
tins from the laboratory: Germs and
Their Part in Disease Production" and
"Hemorrhagic Septicemia and Corn.
stalk Disease" Any person who de-
sires these free bulletins may have
his name placed on the mailing list.
This laboratory Is not prepared to ex-
anime stomach contents for evidence
Of poison Such work is entirely
chemical. therefore specimens OF this
nature should be sent directly to the
State college department of chemistry.
Neither can the laboratory send vet
erfnRrians out into the field to inyes-
ttgate disease outbreaks or to enforce
quarantine OF other sanitary meas.
ures. This is a part of the work OF the
regularly organized Live Stock SAM.
tary board at Pierre. to whom all an
plicatiOns for field Investigations
should be directed.
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