The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1925-05-21
ROOSEVELT COUNTY HAS
BALANCED AC. PROGRAM

Roosevelt county this year is con.
Quoting one of the largest and best
balanced agronomy programs that il
has yet undertaken. In crop stand.
a~rdization a campaign to get every
farmer raising hard red spring wheat
to secure seed from registered and
approved sources is meeting with
much favor and success due to the
fact that previous work has estab-
lished a large amount of seed from
this source and it was made easy
for farmers to secure seed of this
high quality.
In addition to the Marquis wheat
Standardization the number of reg-
istered and approved growers in other
commercial varieties of crop has
been Increased in order to make
available a larger quantity Of home
grown seed of these crops in the
county and it is believed that it will
only be a short time until all crops
in the county will be standardized
on seed of the highest quality in ev-
cry commercial crop. The variety
tests in agronomy include three corn
varieties in representative parts of
the county of seed of the best and
highest recommended sources that
could be obtained in the state. An
drew Harbo, of the Enterprise COM
munity, is conducting the northeast
ern tests; Dave Neson, of the Lanark
community, is conducting the south
of the Missouri river bottom tests,
and John Dorgan, of the Pershing
community, is conducting the north
western tests. From the experience
with corn variety tests and the results
obtained from them it is found that
farmers who have made practical use
of these tests have saved their entire
corn crop by adopting strains of
seed that have proven to be earlier
in maturity and higher in yield. An
other striking feature proven by
are as many as fifteen days differ
ence in maturity in strains of the
same variety. Each year more farm
ers are depending upon these tests
for practical information on corr
growing that has never been worked
out in this section of the corn belt.
Chas. Hawkins of .Lanark is con-
Quoting a wheat variety test using the
strains of a selection of Marquis that
have proven very promising in some
of the Canadian demonstrations.
Two varieties that are being tested
out with with our Marquis are the
Renfrew and University 222, both
from the Saskatchewan experiment
station.
Charles Pryor of the Ander-
son community conducted what will
prove to be a very welcome and
demonstrative variety test of flax in
Guiding Montana 155. a standard
variety, and the N. D. Resistant ia,
known to be a very excellent strain
from a wilt resistant standpoint, and
the common strain will also be in
cluded which is the N. D. R. 50, i'm
ported by the Montana Farming cor
poratlon several years ago.
In addition to these variety tests
a number of tillage method tests will
be conducted to further ascertain
practices which will bear the best re-
suits in the raising of field crops
a long period of years.
Farmers are beginning to take
more advantage Of results proven by
demonstrations over a series of years
of varied conditions and are looking
upon these demonstrations with a
great deal of reliance and favor as
a reliable method of giving them the
type of information that is the most
dependable under average conditions
and each year finds more farmers
are taking advantage of their results
thereby improving the farming prac-
tees, cutting down their cost Of pro-
duction and saving a great amount
of misdirected energy as a result of
having or using these proven sue
cessful practices.