The Glasgow courier. [volume], September 10, 1915, Page 10, Image 10

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EXTRA!
BULLER BROS.
The Leading Tailors of
Williston have bought out
Shobbrooks Tailor Shop
and will be permanently
located here
No house in the Northwest enjoys
the patronage and confidence of the
public as does the House of Bul
ler Bros. No house in the North
west can give you the same service
at the same cost--
—all business transacted
on the basis of absolute
satisfaction or your
money back.
High class Ladies and Gents Tail
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the only genuine French dry clean
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Work Called for and Delivered
Telephone 173-W
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So. 5th St.
GLASGOW, MONT.
GREAT NORTHERN RY.
Arrival and departure of trains at Glasgow
No. 3
No. 4
No. 1
No. 2
No. 229
No. 230
No. 224
No. 223
No. 27
No. 28
Arrives from St. Paul and points east 8:50 p.m.
Leaves for Spokane and Seattle 9:00 p. m.
Arrives from Spokane and points west 9:00 p.m.
Leaves for St. Paul and Minneapolis 9:10 p.m.
Arrives from Chicago, St. Paul and east 9:30 a.m.
Leaves for Spokane, Seattle and west 9:35 a.m.
Arrives from Spokane and western points 7:05 a.m.
Leaves for Chicago, St. Paul and east 7.10 a. m.
Arrives from Williston and points east 11:40 a.m.
Leaves for Williston and east 1:25 p. m.
Arrives from Great Falls, Havre and west 7:00 p. m.
Leaves for Havre, Benton and Great Falls 7:05 a. m.
Fast Mail from east arrives 12:50 a.m.
Leaves for west 12:55 a.m.
Fast Mail and express from west arrives 1250 p. m.
Leaves for eastern points 12:55 p.m.
Nos. 229 and 230 are local passenger trains beween Glasgow
and Williston and Nos. 223 ana 224 are local passenger trains
between Glasgow and Great Falls, and run daily except Sundays.
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Practical Farming.
Helpful Facts Gathered from Reliable Sources '
Of Interest to Montana Farmers :: :: :: ::
(NOTE) If you have any idea to
anything to appear in these columns
offer to the other readers or wish
kindly send it in.
SOME POINTS IN
FAN WEED CONTROL
Probably the greater portion of the
State is yet free from fan weed, tho
many more farms and many more
districts are affected each year. Our
further acquaintance with the plant
has but reaffirmed and accentuated the
opinion expressed in Circular 12 that
this is our worst weed pest, once it
gets firmly established on a farm. Its
hardiness, vigor of growth, and early
and abundant seeding habit make it
almost impossible to eradicate after
fields have become thoroughly seeded
with it. Persistent effort should be
made, therefore, to prevent this weed
from getting a foothold on the farm.
Once the afrm is thoroughly infest
ed with the seed, we do not think the
soil can be entirely freed from the
weed at any reasonable cost, provid
ed we continue to make small grains
the main crop. Our endeavor will
have to be directed to getting the
best crop possible in spite of the
weed, and this may compel a radical
change in farm practice. In the Gal
latin Valley the fan weed grows equal
ly well on dry and on irrigated land.
It first became serious in the dry-farm
section but it is now rapidly spread
ing over the irrigated farms. The
only places where it does not seem
to thrive are on closely seeded hay
land and in pasture fields with a good
close sod. The weed may also be kept
out from a field that is summer-fallow
ed or one planted to a cultivated crop
like corn, potatoes, roots, etc. The
final control of this weed, therefore,
must mean more hay and pasture and
more cultivated crops on the farm
and less grain.
For those districts where the weed
is just getting started the following
suggestions are offered, supplement
ing what was given in Circular 12.
Pure Seed
Fan weed is almost always intro
duced into new territory through im
pure seed. It is absolutely unsafe to
sow on clean land seed of oats, timo
thy, clover or alfalfa, without know
ing positively that it was produced on
land free from the fan weed. It is
practically impossible to clean such
seed that has become infested, and
a few seeds left in a bushel are
enough to give the weed a start. Care
lessness on this point has been most
disastrous during the past few years.
Hand Pulling
Where only a few plants have ap
peared, it is well worth while to pull
them by hand. This is a tedious me
thod but it is feasible if there has
been but a slight introduction, though
impracticable in large, badly infested
fields.
Infertilled Crops
Where the weed has become abund
ant on rather small areas, it is wise
under some conditions to grow an in
fertilled crop like corn or potatoes for
two or three years. It will be ne
cessary to cultivate the crop frequent
ly and to pull out by hand the fan
weed that comes up in the rows, out
of reach of the cultivator.
Summer-Fallow
In our experience on the dry farm,
the use of summer-fallow has not
been successful in eradicating this
weed. One of the difficulties is that
the plant starts its growth so early
in the seasson that, where the farmer
has a large area to plow or much
spring seeding to do, much of the seed
is mature before he has time to plow
under the weed crop. If the farmer
had sufficient help and power, the
work could be done early enough, but
this would entail large additional ex
pense. Even with sufficient help and
power available, wet weather would
frequently prevent working the land
at the right time.
The proper time to plow is before
the seeds mature. Be careful to cov
er all the plants. We have found the
jointer a good attachment to use when
the plants are small. If they are large
use a chain and pull them all under
the furrow. Then pack the soil with
either a packer or a disk, following
this with a drag harrow.
Under favorable conditions the first
crop of fan weed is above the ground
in two weeks after tillage. This is
the best time to destroy it. A har
row of the Acme type or a pulverizer
which will work thoroughly an inch or
two of the surface soil will destroy all
these weeds. In another two weeks
favorable moisture conditions anoth
er crop will be ready for destruction.
However, if the season is dry, and a
surface mulch of three inches of dry
soil is formed, the weeds will not ger
minate until the moist weather of the
fall. It is is generally advisable,
therefore, to delay seeding winter
wheat until the fall rains start anoth
er crop of weeds which should be
cleaned off before seeding.
In some seasons continued wet
weather prevents getting over the
ground when the fan weed is just
coming through, and the plants grow
from two to six inches high before
the ground can be cultivated. The
tool we have found most effective at
this stage is the duck-foot cultivator,
which cuts the weeds off below the
surface and loosens the soil. This
should be followed by the Acme har
row or pulverizer. We find that we
can handle this weed on summer-fal
low much more effectively with these
tools than with the disk. In our ex
pedience summer-faJJowing two years
in succession materially reduced the
number of weeds, yet in the following
grain crop the weeds were altogether
too numerous to pull or hoe out, thus
again thoroughly seeding the field.
Use of Spring-Seeded Grain Crops
Because the fan weed lives through
the winter and will grow in the spring
at a lower temperature than will win
ter wheat, the weed will frequently
choke out the wheat. In some sea
sons we have saved this crop by mow
ing the field before the wheat started
to shoot up. This checks the fan
weed and permits the wheat to get
ahead of it. It is very important to
do this mowing before the wheat
starts to shoot up its stalks as other
wise the yield will be much reduced.
While it may save the crop, this me
thod is rather expensive and wet wea
ther may delay the mowing until too
late to prevent injury to the crop.
In view of these facts many farmers
are turning to spring crops, even on
summer-fallowed land.
The fan weed should be allowed to
get a start in the spring and then the
ground thoroughly cleaned of weeds
before seeding. By this method we
have found it possible to keep the
grain ahead of the fan weed and so
secure a crop. This does not destroy
the weed, as an abundance of it goes
to seed among the grain. The same
method is advisable on irrigated land.
Seeding to a Hay Crop
When a field is seeded to alfalfa
and grasses without a nurse crop, the
fan weed, which will grow much fast
er than these new plants, should be
mowed once or twice during the sea
son to give the alfalfa and grasses a
chance to grow. The mowing checks
the fan weed more than it does the
alfalfa and grass. We have found
that during the next season the alfal
fa and grasses, where thickly seeded,
will grow faster than the fan weed,
which thus does not interfere with the
hay crop. We have had no experience
in seeding to a hay crop on irrigated
land badly infested with the fan weed,
but we would advise seeding as usual
with a grain crop, using barley or ear
ly oats as the nurse crop.
Spraying not Effective
It is claimed that under certain
conditions fan weeds may be killed by
spraying with iron sulphate or other
chemicals while the grain crofr in
which it is growing is practically un
injured. Thiä feat may occasionally
be accomplished by an expert under
ideal conditions, but we believe it is
not yet on a basis where farmers can
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pratice it successfully.
Where We Fail
1. By assuming that seed is free
from fan weed because we cannot
easily see it there.
2. By not making a vigorous at
tack on the first plants that appear
in new territory. 1
3. By careless summer-fallçwing.
In practically every infested section
in Montana there are fields that ma
ture some seed before the weeds are
destroyed in early summer and fields
that have plants here and there that
escape destruction by tillage. If ten
plants are left to the acre and each
produces only 4,000 seeds, there will
be an average of about one seed for
every square foot. After producing
one crop of mixed grain and fan weed,
such a field will be as bad as before
the fallow.
4. By attempting to fight fan
weed without good surface tillage im
plements, such as the Acme type of
harrow, etfc.
5. By allowing some fan weed to
mature in the rows of an intertilled
crop.
6. By seeding to grain, grass, or
other crop without first thoroughly
destroying the weeds growing on the
ground.
7. By not taking advantage of the
fact that alfalfa, clover, or timothy,
will stand clipping and fan weed will
not.
WEEKLY WEATHER REPORT
Havre, Sept. 4th, 1915.—The first
three days of the week ending Sat
urday, September 4th were unusually
warm and were followed by showers
and cooler weather the remainder of
BUMPER CROPS
Are now assured every Valley County
farmer this season and now is the time
to get busy and purchase the LUMBER
for that new
GRANARY
In which to store it
Quality and Prices Always Right,
us Figure on Your Bill
Let
Imperial Lumber Co.
J. P. STERNHAGEN, Mgr.
Glasgow,
Montana
the week. There was an excess in
daily mean temperature as compiled
with the normal of 4 degrees. The
highest temperature was 93 degrees
on Monday, August 30th and the low
est was 44 degrees on Sunday, August
29th, making a weekly range in tem
perature of 49 degrees.
Generally the rain-fall in this sec
tion becomes appreciably less with
the advent of autumn, but the total
rainfall for the week was 0.86 inches,
which is twice the average amount
for this period. All this rain fell dur
ing the night of September 1st and
2nd and was accompanied by a thun
der storm. There were 3 clear days,
partly cloudy and 3 cloudy days. The
wind force was light to gentle from
the west.
The harvesting of some late ripen
ing crops continues especially in the
Bear Paw Mountain District where all
grains were somewhat late in matur
ing. Plowing and threshing are in
progress. The weather was very fav
orable for corn and potatoes and all
classes of garden truck.—C. W. Ling,
Observer, Weather Bureau.
Mike Street
A trolley car in Rochester crossed
three consecutive streets bearing mas
culine names. When the conductor
called "James," a man signalled him.
"William," he called, another man got
off. An Irishman sitting gazingly
near the door grew visibly nervosu.
When "Alexander" was announced
and a third man left the car the
Irishman arose, approached the con
ductor and said:—"I want to get off
at Avnoo B. Me foorst name is
Michael."—Exchange.