Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1918-03-13

Such pastures furnish a lot of fee,
when properly handled and will hell
in saving high priced corn. Seeding
made two weeks or more apart viii
furnish new pastures that will las
until time to hog down the corn crop
HOGGING DOWN
Farm journals and other publ
lions have heralded the system Hog
ging Down Corn" as one of the new
inventions of the age. However, Sol
ONION was right when he said Their
Is nothing new-just look for it il
Delaware county.
w. H. Clute, of Earlville has this tt
say about hogging down: II have
not picked an ear of corn on m!
farm for twenty years. Let the live
stock do it, is my slogan. They do
the job right and leave the field clean
Then too, the fertility is kept where
it belongs. Hogging down is one Of
the greatest labor saving devices or
the farm"
Now is the time to make plans fol
few acres of early corn for hoggine
down. Any variety of flint or flour
corn Called squaw CORN makes g
good CROP Most seed companies car
furnish this corn. Order your seed
now. County Agent can furnish
names of seed companies.
DAT SMUT
1t is estimated that the annual loss
from oat smut in Iowa is $7,000,0 900
Delaware county has been contribut-
ing its share.
Dat smut is caused by fungus dis
ease which lives on the oat plant. 1t
is recognized in the field at harvest
time as a black mass which replaced
the oat panicle. At this time and
later during threshing the disease is
spread and by means of minute spores
which are so plentiful in badly in
fected grain that the air and thresh-
ing crew become black The disease
is spread largely at threshing time
and the infected oats must be treat
ed before seeding.
This disease can be eliminated by
the formalin treatment The solution
used is made up of one pint formalin
to ten gallons of water, stir we'll and
it is ready to use. One quart of this
solution should treat one bushel of
cleaned oats.
Place the oats in a large pile, a
barn floor or wagon box may be
used to treat the oats. Apply the
solution with a sprinkler or can with
holes punched in the bottom. Then
shovel the oats over and over as in
mixing concrete, until every oat is
wet. After all the oats are treated
shovel into a pile and cover with
blankets and leave from four to six
hours. This covering holds in the
gas which kills the disease. When
through the oats will be dry enough
to seed-if not, shovel them over a
few times. Treated oats which have
been we'll aired can be fed any time.
Precautions:-Q Do not treat when
there is danger of freezing. (2) Be
sure directions are followed out as
indicated above. 60 Treat all sacks,
machinery and tools used in handling
the oats as they carry the disease.
(4) Buy fresh formalin.
TO THE FARMERS
81 dare not say that you are aware
as efficient as any other farmers in
the world. They do not produce more
per acre than the farmers in Europe.
1t is not necessary to do so. But they
produce by two to three or four times
more per man, per unit Of labor and
capital than the farmers Of any Eu-
ropean country. They are more alert
and use more labOr1saving devices
than any other farmers in the world.
And their response to the demands of
the present emergency has been in
every way remarkable"
But ought to say to you that it is
not only necessary that these achieve
ments should be repeated, but that
they should be exceeded. I know
what this advice involves. 1t involves
not only labor but sacrifice, the pains
taking application Of every bit of
scientific knowledge and every tested
practice that is available. 1t means
the utmost economy, even to the point
where the pinch comes. 1t means
the kind of concentration and self
sacrifice which is involved in the field
of battle itself, where the object always
looms greater than the individual. -
President Wilson.
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