Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-11-15
Cannot CURE SMUT
AGRoNoMlsT SAYS NO SUCCESS
Full TREATMENT Ia
KNOWN.
GOSSIP OF THE STATE HOUSE

A Review Of the Work Of the state
Government at the Capitol and
ct the Various State
institutions.
Pierre
mo seed treatment is known which
10 of practical avail against smut in
corn" writes DR.. A. N. Hume, State
college agronomist. in reply to re-
cent inquiries. He states: Corn
smut is not disease that comes into
the corn plant strictly through the
seed. My recollection is that tinves-
LEGATIONS carried on by Burl and Bar
rett indicate that smut spores were
likely to be blown in the direction of
the prevailing winds. and that accord
ingly corn fields might we'll be rotated
In such way as not only to be not re-
planted on the same ground, but also
planted far enough away from the
field of the previous year that smut
spores would not be blown from one
piece of ground to another.
~ 40 POoSlU10 WuOu very larE0
amounts Of smut are present, to gath.
er and burn stalks which have mass
es of the black smut spores, but such
process again is too laborious for
the amount Of practical benefit.
I'm short, there is no very direct
practical remedy for corn smut, either
through seed treatment or otherwise,
except the use of the best farming
systems which enable the corn to sue
coed in spite of the smut. There is
always an amount of corn smut. This
is largely affected by season-some
seasons being worse than others.
Even though smut is very prevalent
this year, it is likely not to be preva-
lent next year.
my recommendations is that you
choose the best ears from your crop
as usual, taking those from stalks
that have no smut. Such seed will
linely be better, as you suggest, than
seed which you may be able to i'm.
port"
Reorganize STAFF.
Reorganization of 1.-THE Coyote"
stan was necessary at the University
Of South Dakota because the editor
OF the annual Elmer G. Trotzig of
Howard, s. D.. Joined the navy and
did not return to the campus this
fall. 1.-THE Coyote" is the annual H.
Illustrated book issued by the junior
class each year at the university: The
staff elected to issue the book this
year is: Frank Patton, Lead; editor
in chief; Gertrude MCGEE, Lead, asso-
ciate editor: Carl Hoy, Huron, bust
ness manager; Lyman Beardsley,
Sioux City, Ia, assistant business
manager; Howard Peterson, Vermill-
ion, organizations; Irene Ward, Sioux
Falls, editor of department of Foren.
sizes and Drama; George Henderson,
Trip. sporting editor; Josephine
Maxam, Lane Preston, editor of fea-
ture section; Frances Cassidy, Sioux
City. Ia, assistant editor of feature
section; Hazel Haynes, Mount Vernon,
editor of the class section.
.
Never Defeated at Home.
Vermillion.-Never defeated on the
home field in the history Of the Uni
versity Of South Dakota is tn eun.
usual record of the Coyotes. Among
the teams the South Dakotans have
played on Dakota Field are: Nebras-
ka, Kansas, Montana, and. Michigan
Aggies. A few years ago Dakota
Wesleyan tied the Coyotes on Dakota
Field and last year the Michigan Az
rtcultural college managed to hold
South Dakota to 3-3 tie. November
IL, South Dakota plays Sioux Fails
college on the Coyote grounds and
the South Dakotans are resolved to
add one more victory to their record.
They opened the 1917 season with q
1910 victory over the University of
North Dakota on the home grounds
here.
A Cold October.
The government weather bureau
record here for October shows that
month to have been 81 below normal.
with the lowest temperature for the
month at II above zero. The month
was extreme in wind movement, and
far below average for precipitation,
and with only eleven clear days for
the month. which is exceptional for
October in this section. On account
Of the cold weather Of October there
was heavy loss of potatoes and on.
Ions not yet out of the ground, t<~
Students Elect.
Horace Clon!nger Of Hamburg. ILL.,,
was elected president Of the student
council Of the Northern Normal and
Industrial school. This office CORE.
spends to that of president Of the stu.
dent association in other schools.
Vera ellis of Clark is vice president
and Gideon Seymour Of Aberdeen, sec.