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handled, may ruin several bushels of
wheat.
Copper Carbonate Dust Kills Smut
/ Spores
| a. coating of Copper Carbonate
dust over the wheat kernel kills the
Smut-spores and leaves the wheat
ready to grow unframed.
! Grain Smut Robs Everyone
The 1925 Smut epidemic with its
threat of heavy crop damage for
1926 concerns everyone in the NortlY
lWest-farmers, business men, ma7fd-
facturers, housewives and even chill
dren.
! Labor Saving Devices Revolution
ize Farming-''The outstanding fea-
ture of American agriculture the
last, rs years has been the adoption
of labor saving machinery" said
H. B. Walker. professor of agricul.
tural engineering in Kansas Staff
College, to an audience of farm and
university people attending Farm
CID anu IlOIltIldhcIS OllOTC SOuISc
exercises at University Farm, St.
Paul.
"Seventy-fve years ago the aver
age for the United States is 81 acres,
of crops" he said; "today the aver
age for the United States is "a acdes,
or nearly three times that of rs,
years ago. Although we have only
twice the number of agricultural
workers we had rs years ago, these
workers are caring for nearly six
times the acreage of crops"
1t was pointed out by Professor
Walker that the direct effect of these
new efficiencies and economies,
brought about by labor saving de-
vices, has been greater individual re-
turns for the farm worker, the re-
lease of millions of workers for other
pursuits, the greater production of
luxuries, lower costs of the necessi-
ties of life, shorter working days, and
higher standards of living.
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Seed Corn Campaign Gaining
lMomentum-The campaign for good
seed corn is making Roadway in most
of the corn growing counties of Min
nesota. County agents are locating
old stocks of corn and holding meet
lings to create sentiment for individ-
ual ear testing of corn in order to in
sure good seed for next spring. A
now bulletin, "Rag Doll Test for
Seed Corn" has been issued by the
University's agricultural extension
service and will be sent free to farm
ers and other persons interested.
Write the Office of Publications, Uni
versity Farm, st. Paul, for copies.
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DR.. Woods to Return to u. S. De-
partment-Word from Washington
says that DIR. Albert F. Woods, presi-
dent of the Maryland State Univer-
sity, is to be appointed director of
scientific work in the United States
Department of Agriculture with which
he was connected many years ago :.
DIR. Woods is at native of Nebraska
and was graduated from the univer-
sity of that state. In 1910 he be-
came dean of the department of ag-
ricvulture, University of Minnesota,
and director of the Minnesota Expert
ment station. He held these posi-
, tons until his resignation seven
years later to accept the Maryland
appointment.
Away Says to Try Phosphate on
Corn-Dr: F. J. Away, chief of the
soils division, University of Mime
sofa, recently reported the results
from a series of trials of phosphate
on corn on 55 farms in Jackson
county. AS the corn was husked and
weighed up in September, it was
found, he says, that on about one
third of the fields there was no dis
tinct effect. On another third there
was an increase of to 10 per cent,
and on the remaining third an in
crease of 10 to 20 per cent. When
the corn had been thoroughly dried
there was far more shrinkage with
the unfertilized than with the ferti-
lized corn in nearly all cases, due to
the fact that the fortified corn was
more manure.
i About one-third of the fields gave
no appreciable gain of dry shelled
corn; another third showed an in
crease of 10 to rs per cent, and the
remaining third of 25 to so per cent.
Dr.. Away concludes that in Jack
son county, with such a season as
the one in 1925, there is chance of a
profitable use of phosphate or CO
land, and he would encourage farm
ers in all southwestern counties of
Minnesota to try phosphate on small
scale on their corn Applications