The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1926-02-04
VARIOUS AGENCIES SEEK
TO PROMOTE PREVEN-
TON METHODS

lion METHODS
e Sinking Smut is more than ar
; odor, declare competent agricul
tural authorities. It is a menace
e to the prosperity Of the North
s west this year. Smut losses of
$4,000, 600 were sustained by the
Northwest in 1925. Unless the
menace is checked this will seem
{ trivial beside the losses which
will be incurred in 1926.
There is only one sure preven-
tive all authorities agree-the
treating of grain seed. If prop
er measures are adopted before
spring planting, the threatened
disaster to the 1926 crop will be
averted.
To- Impress Northwest
Grain Smut Prevention methods
+ being advocated by %represen-
tatives of the colleges of agricul-
ture, and the U. S. department of
agriculture. The Northwest
Grain Smut Prevention Commit
tee, with headquarters in the Of
fees of the Minneapolis Civic and
Commerce association, has been
formed to back up the work of
these agricultural leaders and to
do everything possible to impress
upon the Northwest the necessity
of treating grain seed this year.
One To One Thousand
every dollar a farmer invests
in the treatment of seed to kill
smut will return him a profit of 5
1,000," says Professor A. N. t
Hume of the South Dakota Agri- :
cultural college. "South Dakota !
lost at least $1,OO0,0O0 last 3
year through the ravages caused 9
~ smut" c
"Seventy-five per cent of the
wheat brought to one country ele- y
vator was badly smutted," says +
Dr.. E. G. Stakman, plant patholo- h
College of Agriculture, Uni +
Of Minnesota. "The per- +
.entage of heads destroyed by o
nut ranges from one to fifty per "
ent. This means, of course, a cor Il
esponding reduction in yield. The c
0ss on account of smut on small
rains in Minnesota ranges from r
4, 100000 to $7,000,000 annual
27 Per Cent
"The Northwest is in need of
relative to damages
lstained by grain smut last year
| order to decrease the ravages 81
f this menace" said Professor II. tie
+. Bolley of the North Dakota Ag- III
cultural college. us
"Seven thousand, n hundred re
ghty cars of durum wheat, or op
7 per cent of the amount receiv- IN
/ at the terminals in Minneapo- IL
and Duluth during a period of
vo and one-ahlf months in 1925 w
lowed smut notations. Two nc!
.ousand eighteen cars of bread an
heat arrived at the terminal Tn.
it'll smut notations put on by the mi
ate inspectors" says R. P. Wood gal
orth, chairman of the Northwest pr
rain Smut Protective Commit pe'
e.
100000 Loss IN
at is safe to assume that the ne
IS sustained on wheat and du- tte
m shipped to terminal markets no
ring the current marketing sea- an
n will approximate 100000. ~
my districts escaped serious Oh
mage this year, but grain smut INC
so easily carried from n dis 1--WE
ct to another, that immunity or Pa!
ght damage in 1925 gives no enc
ico+ion If what NAV happen doy
5 year. No chances should be at
en- on this years crop"
The educational work of the ma
ut Prevention campaign will be Oh
Quoted by the colleges OF ag- hfei
llture of the states concerned, MAJ
Northwest Grain Smut Pre- off
ton Committee, under whose rea,
.ction the campaign originated, +ho,
ing been organized merely for
purpose of aiding the colleges d s.
his campaign. That
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