The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1929-01-25
Needs lake Out Water

to act as a moisture reserve fol
the next year. A ton of dry rus
sian thistles will have taken from
the soil the equivalent of 47,0O(
ten gallon pals of water. Hence
it is better to keep fallow lane
free from weeds during the sum
mer than it is to burn the dry
thistles.
Experiments made in North
Dakota show that there is al
average of four per cent more
protein in wheat on clean land
than on foul land. This is be-
cause the moisture used by the
weeds is needed to form the prop.
er mixture or soup" which will
liberate the maximum amount OF
nitrogen. Low cost wheat cannot
be produced if the land is foul,
Where weeds + found com
peting with wheat, the weeds
usually win out.
Wolf Point Wheat Clean
The importance of treating
wheat for smut was urged. He
mentioned the fact that this last
fall of 305 cars of spring wheat
shipped from Wolf Point to the
Minneapolis market, only three of
them were found to be smutty,
and of AZ cars of winter wheat
shipped 7 graded smutty. The
record in some localities is not
so good. One-third of all the cars
of wheat shipped into Minneapolis
grade smutty. This results in
lowered price.
He urged the Importance of
pure seed and advised every farm
er to have his own seed plot, using
as foundation stock varieties that
had been proved most successful
for his territory. New parent
stock should be secured every
few years. He stressed the need
of standardization. Every farmer
should plant two varieties, one of
which natures earlier than the
other in order to distribute the
work of harvesting. Marquis is
the best staple variety for this
section of Montana both for yield
and protein content, with Ceres
recommended as a second variety.
This is an early variety which
gets out of the way before marquis
and is well adapted to windrow-
ing. Supreme, on the other hand
does better in the central and
north central part of the state.
He complimented Sid Blair of Cul-
bertson and Emil Nelson of Ben
rud on the quality of the seed
they are producing and said that
there was no need to get founda-
ton seed from a distance.
Nj. l.. Wilson sounded a note
Of warning to farmers saying that
the phenomenal crop conditions
which had maintained in Montana
during the past five years could
not be expected to continue, and
that in the regular course of
weather cycles a series of dry
years were to be expected. In
such event the farmers who had
a surplus either in cash, grain
or livestock would be able to
weather the adverse conditions.
Referring to the series of farm
conferences which were held
throughout the state following the
period of depression and poor
crops, Mr.. Wilson said that if any
slogan had been coined to express
the keynote of those meetings it
would have been something like
this, "Have faith in Montana for
Montana will justify that faith"
In going over the same territory
five years later, years that have
been remarkable for their good
crops and general prosperity, Mr..
Wilson says that the slogan should
be. I'VE should be very careful
not to have too much faith in
Montana"
The last five years he said have
been the most marvellous, the
most spectacular in the history
of Montana or of the farming
world, because these years have
seen the shift from the old style
of farming to mechanical farming,
the manufacturing OF wheat so to
speak. Five years ago wheat
farmers were trying to make a
living from wheat and many of
them were having a mighty hard
time to do that. At this time,
however, men who are raising
wheat are trying to get the pro-
duction costs down so that there
will be a profit in the business
as well as a mere living.
In 1928 diversified farming was
being talked because it was point
ed out that one year with another
the living might be made off from
The livestock, butter and eggs, etc.
and whatever vas received from
wheat would then be velvet which
could be used to build up a sur
plus during good years, and which
was not essential to the family's
along during the poor