The Wahpeton times., 1918-10-10
Did Nou Treat Easr SccG Potatoes
Last Srr;nw?

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. on of Corrosive Subluate q OF. 70
80 gallons of water) for period fro.u
li5 to hours. This solution may bo
:tsed for four times. This process
| is inexpensive and very simple. Tie
experiment was carried out on si;
farms located in various parts of Rich
land County. In each case the farm
er's potatoes was used for seed In
each case some Of the potatoes were
treated and some were not treated.
The treated potatoes were planted in
separate rows along side of the un-
treated potatoes. This fall when the
potatoes were dug the following re-
suits were obtained:
Treated Untreated
Knute Helling's farm
at Walcott... -. Ill 101-10
John Thiels farm
at Barney :. 90. ...164 1853
S. p. stucky's farm
at Wyndmere =. %. 1873 90-43
w. Manikowski's farm
at Mooreton :. =. 162 131-31
A. Bakken's farm
at Abercrombie -. 15i 1920
W. Mitchell's farm
at Sonora ... .... 1S4 1922
This is an average increase in the
yield of over "a bushels per acre
When potatoes are selling at s1.0O
a bushel that means profit of s24.O0
per acre. When potatoes are selling
at 80 cents a bushel that means u
profit of $7.2O per acre. With proper
arrangements an acre of seed pota-
toes can be treated in an hour. $24
is a very good wage for one hours
work. Even $7.20 is good wage for
one hours work. Working 10 hours
per day and 26 days per month this
amounts to the modest sum of $22,-
454.O0 per year. Computed at the
rate of $10O per bushel the figures
approximate our Presidents salary.
!
ers to get salary the same as our
President gets during the time they
are treating potatoes. And yet many
of them believe it doesn't pa y.
In connection with this seed treat
nyent work two other experiments
were conducted. In one case the
question at issue was the following:
Which puts the most fertility into the
soil, clover or timothy? On Andrew
Bakken's farm. Abercrombie. an ad
! joining piece of clover and timothy
the following yields are obtained:
On clover seed 80. ..... :. .154
On timothy seed -. 80. -. 122
This shows an increase of 20 bushels
per acre on clover seed. That ought
to leave very little question as to the
value of bringing back the soil by
means of such crops as clover.
The last experiment was variety
trial conducted on Wolf Bros. farm at
Colfax. Four varieties Of potatoes
we're planted side by side and the fol
lowing yields secured:
Rural New Workers -. 80. 22l
Green Mountains :. 1856
Early Ohios -. -. -. 40
Burbanks -. ..lao
This of course. does not mean that
Rural New Workers are always th:,
iargnst yiclders, but under this year,
circumstances they yielded better
than the others.
In all these experiments the yields
were low. This was no doubt due to
the small amount OF rain fall. In
each experiment. however.we secured
valuable results which no one can
question So we feel that consider
able has been accomplished. One ot-
her thing remains to be said: Pota-
toes are a splendid crop for Richland
County to raise. We ought to have
as good reputation for potatoes as
we have for wheat. When prices are
low we can feed our potatoes, and
when prices are high we can sell them
However, before we can be success.
full potato growers we need potato
warehouses. Potatoes are a perisha-
BILE CROP We must have facilities to
store them. We need potato ware
houses in Walcott. Colfax, Galchutt.
Dwight, Mooreton, Barney, Wyndmere
Sonora, Hankinson. Mantador and
Lidgerwood. After we have these
warehouses we can sell when we like,
and need not worry about frosts. How
long will it take us to get these ware
| houses?
Signed Geo. p. Wolf,
County Agricultural Agent.
Preparing the Poultry House For
Winter
The poultry house should be clean