The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1918-08-15
Home Canning


cultural College will be in Sedgwick
County three days this week. giving
demonstrations in canning and pre-
serving. This work will be demon
strated through the several branches
of the Red Cross, and the ladies
should keep in touch as far as possi-
BILE with the officers of the various
branches in regard to the time. The
dates for the various meetings can
not be given at this tima
Why Seed Should Be Tested
Many poor stands of crops are the
result of using seed low in terminating
power The outward appearance Of
the seed will give one little idea of the
vitality of the germ inside. Conse-
luently termination test before
planting is necessity. Play safe
game. Do not trust in luck that the
seed is of high termination. Test it
out and be sure. The time and trouble
required to make test yourself, OF
to wrap the seed up and mail it to the
Colorado Agricultural College Seed
Laboratory, Fort Collins, Colorado, for
free test, are so trivial as to be
scarcely worth mentioning.
1t is just as necessary to know the
purity of seed as its terminating pow
er One will not knowingly sow his
farm to dodder, poverty weed, wild
mustard, sun flower, or any other nox-
ious weed. Yet, this is often done be.
cause the seed "looks clean" There
are so many weed seeds which may be
easily mistaken for many field seeds
that nothing less than very careful
analysis will give one an idea of the
impurities in the crop seeds. Furth,
ermore. the weed seed content of 9
certain lot of crop seeds will be a
guide as to the proper screens to use
in cleaning. Have all seed tested as
to termination and analyzed as to pur
ity before planting.
The common cereal smuts in Colo
RADIO are wheat. barley, oats and mil
let Formalin is undoubtedly the bes'
disinfectant adopted for seed treating
purposes. Although copper sulphatt
was one of the earliest it is not now
considered the best disinfectant, chief
ly on account of the obvious injury il
causes to the grain and it's relatively
higher expense Therefore, use form
alin. 1t is sold by all druggists. Il
| must be of 40 per cent strength.
Use One of Four Methods
There are in use at the present time
four methods of carrying out the form
alin seed treatment. They are as fol
lows: % soaking, (2) sprinkling, g
open tank and (4) dry method. Eacl
method will be described, in order tina
the farmer may choose the one bes
suited to the convenience at hand
Each method is easily performed ant
quite inexpensive the total cost no
exceeding 2 cents per bushel.
How To Use the Soaking Method
I. Estimate the amount of seed t.
be treated and purchase formalin (4t
per cent strength) one pint for 40 bu
of grain.
2. Dilute the formalin to the re
qulred strength. See Table j.
3. Put sufficient amount of tn
solution in barrel or tank to i'm
merse one or more sacks of seed. D.
not fill the sacks to full, allow room
for agitation of the grain so that eacl
grain will become thoroughly wetted
4. Leave the seed in this solution
according to the specified time. Sc
Table l.
S. Remove the sacks and drain, al
lowing the excess solution to run bacl
into the barrel or tank. Replenish tn
solution when it gets too low.
g. Pile the treated grain and GOV
er with wet sacks or canvas for no
less than six hours nor more tha
twelve hours.