The Ward County independent., 1922-11-16
UNIVERSITY NOTES

worry over the colossal failure.
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UNIVERSITY NOTES
}. Warren Bacon of Minot has re-
rcivcd the appointment of regular re-
porter on the staff of the Student,
tn, university paper, which is issued
each week.
A political rally, the first Of it's
kind ever held at the university, took
place in the Armory last Thursday
evening. At this meeting all the can
didatcs for the various class presi-
derccs spoke so that better knowl-
edge of the candidates and their quail
itications were gained by the student
body. The meeting was preceded by
"a pep rally led by Rooter King, Jack
Jacob, and was presided over by Gus
Lindel, graduate student of the uni
versity.
At the election held Friday Ken
meth Hawl4y of Minot, senior in the
school Of commerce, was elected treas
urer of the senior class. Paul Bertel-
son, formerly of Mnot, was elected
vice president Of the junior class.
SophuS Bolme, who was graduate
assistant in the chemistry department
last year and who received his Mastesr
degree in science last June, has left
for Chicago to enter the employment
Of .Shcrwin- Williams Paint company.
}Ir. Bolinc is to take up his work in
the dye testing laboratories where a
knowledge Of light rays is essential
t. the proper mixing Of c0!ors.
Miss Gail Carr Of Minot, who grad
uatcd with the class Of u, M.H.S.,
i1+ M i,>t l,f,, l,
Of the Alpha Phi Sorority Miss Ag-
Miss Maude Woods of the teaching
staff Of the Mnot high scheo! are
members Of this sorority.
The Dakotah. the annual junior pro-
ciGction staged beauty contest the
past week to dctermine the eight most
beautiful girls on the campus. The
Dakotah this year
James Fuller, son Of Mr. and Mrs.
Fay n. Fuller, formerly Of Minot,
but now residing in Grand Forks, has
been pledged to the Alpha Lambda
Rho fraternity.
Miss Sibyl Malm Of Minot was mi
Delta Gamma Sorority
added to the history department Of
opened. This shows the growth that
the history department has attained
in the last few years. Mr.. Fletcher
Brown, graduate Of Simpson college
and graduate student at the Univer-
sity Of Chicago last year is to devote
his entire time to the department of
l. NV, irt, 4
will devote his time between the Eu-
ropean and American history depart
ments. Dr. Hyma received his Ph.D.
at the University Of Michigan in
1922, and has five years Of teaching
experience at Knox college.
BELIEVE
Black Rot Menace Can Be Checked
Black rot or blacklcg of potatoes,
the cause Of losses to growers in
some parts of North Dakota of as high
as Is to 80 per cent, can be controlled
largely by seed treatment and proper
treatment of the tubers in the bins,
according to d statement made this
week by DR.. Wanda Weniger, plant
pathologist at the North Dakota Agri-
cultural college.
"Growers who practiced seed plot
selection, and careful seed treatment
escaped almost entirely the large loss
es through disease to which their less
careful neighbors were subject" says
DR.. Weniger. "The black leg tuber
rot will undoubtedly be menace in
the bins this winter, unless the prop
er precautions are taken. The black
rot organism prefers moisture, and
cannot resist drying. 1t grows best
at warm temperatures, grows scarce
ly at all at about 40 degrees Fahren-
helt, and cannot live at cold tempera-
lures. 1t does not winter in the soil
which is subject to our cold winters.
Black leg enters through the skin of
potatoes, but it will enter more readily
in a cut or bruised spot in the tuber.
Control measures that have been
successfully used against black rot
include the storing Of only sound, un-
bruised tubers in clean disinfected,
well-ventilated bins at a tempera ture
as near 35 to 40 degrees as possible.
Careful treatment of the seed pota-
toes with corrosive sublimate is also
effective, if measures are taken to
prevent infection from rotted tubers
or from infected knives. Fields in
fected with black leg show wilted, yell
low, rotten, off plants, with tubers
frequently rotted while still very
small. Partially rotted tubers often
cause trouble in the storage bins in
winter"
- sEttEyE IN M'Nor
Election returns show that the ini-
tiated law pertaining to grain grades
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