The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume], April 20, 1934, Page PAGE EIGHT, Image 8

About The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973

Image provided by: Montana Historical Society; Helena, MT

                
PAGE EIGHT
sow
MONTANA-PEERLESS
TESTED -SEEDS
State Nursery & Seed Co.
CLOVER
Medium Red Peerless... $lB per 100
Medium Red Placer. .$17.50 per 100
SW. White Clover.sß.oo per 100 lbs.
State Nursery & Seed Co.
For Hay Crops
Spring Vetch $9.00 per 100
Reeds Canary Grass 75c per lb.
(For Wet Land Only)
Huntley Hay Mixture $19.00 per 100
State Nursery & Seed Co.
FLAX
RESERVE-» “ ™ lbs -
GROWN FROM REGISTERED
STOCK
State Nursery & Seed Co.
BARLEY
SIX-ROW TREBI (Bearded)
$1.40 per 100 Uis.
THE BEST BARLEY FOB
IRRIGATED LAND.
State Nursery * Seed Co.
TIMOTHY
Peerless Grade $12.00 per 100
(Purity 99% — Germ 93%)
Placer Grade $ll.OO per 100
State Nursery & Seed Co.
Play Safe With the
Best Seed Money Can
Buy
State Nursery & Seed Co.
50 lbs.
Grimm Reg. Blue Tag $11.50
100 lbs. $22.00
Grimm “Unregistered” $10.50
100 lbs. $20.00
Montana Peerless Extra No. l.s 8.75
100 lbs. $16.50
Montana Placer No. 1 $ 8.00
100 lbs. $15.00
Montana Quartz, No. 2 $ 6.50
100 lbs. $12.0€
State Nursery & Seed Co.
We Are the Pioneer
Alfalfa Seed Dealers
in Montana
State Nursery & Seed Co.
Vegetable Garden
Collection
16 Large Size Packets for 50c
[POSTPAID]
State Nursery & Seed Co.
OUR HOME ORCHARD COLLECTION
1 Duchess Apple Tree, 5-6 feet
1 Wealthy Apple Tree, 5-6 feet
1 Whitney Crab, 5-6 feet
1 Underwood Plum Tree,
5-6 feet
1 Montmorency Cherry Tree,
5-6 feet
3 Red Cherry Currants
12 Latham Raspberries
ALL FOR—
-55.45
Prepaid
State Nursery At Seed Co.
We are Distributors for
ANIMALICK and
TREBLE SUPERPHOSPHATE
State Nursery & Seed Co.
FREE
Send this ad with your order
and we will send you FREE a
Special Flower Seed Collection.
STATE NURSERY
& SEED CO.
■UNA, MONTANA
TREASURE STATE FARM AND LIVESTOCK
INSECTICIDES ARE
CHEAP TO MAKE
HOUSEWIVES CAN PREPARE OWN
FLY POISON MUCH CHEAPER
THAN BUYING IT
(MONTANA STATE COLLEGE)
The thrifty housewife willing to go
to the trouble of mixing household
insecticides can make a substantial
saving and still have an excellent
product, according to G. Allen Mail of
the State college entomology depart
ment.
Most sprays now on the market are
very similar. They have a kerosene
i base, pyrethrum extract and some form
- of perfume to kill the kerosene odor.
Kerosene itself is an excellent insecti
cide. Mail says. Pyrethrum is an in
secticide made from the ground up
heads of a flower which contains an
alkaloid known as pyrethrum which is
extremely deadly to insects but rela
tively harmless to man and animals.
The ground up blossoms of the flow
ers long have been used as an insect
power under the name of Dalmatian
insect powder, but was never very ef
fective. Now a new method of ex
tracting the alkaloid has been found
and this pyrethrum extract mix
ed with kerosene makes an excellent
insecticide. This is the base of most
of the well known fly sprays.
Housewives desiring to mix their own
fly spray and make a substantial sav
ing may have difficulty purchasing
pyrethrum extract. They can, Mail
says, purchase groundup “flowers of
pyrethrum" readily. To make a fly
spray using the ground flower heads,
proceed as follows:
Soak one and one-half pounds of
freshly ground flower heads in a gal
lon of kerosene for 48 hours, stirring
occasionally . Then filter the mixture
and the clear liquid will be the equal
of any fly spray and the cost will be
less than a dollar per gallon.
To kill the kerosene odor add an
ounce or two of some perfume for
each gallon of the spray. Some of the
perfumes that can be used are oil of
wintergreen, oil of cloves, oil of Berg
amot, Terpineol and others which the
local druggist may suggest. One ounce
of oil of cloves and one ounce of oil of
Bergamot, both added to each gallon,
will entirely kill the objectionable ker
osene odor and leave a fragrant smell
in the room.
Fly poisons to take the place of pads
purchased at the stores can be made
as follows. Two or three teaspoons of
formaldehyde to a pint of milk and
water in equal proportions with a little
sugar or molasses to sweeten. For
larger quantities use formaldehyde one
pint, canned milk one pint, sugar one
pound, and water, three gallons. This
mixture is left around in saucers or
other flat containers, with a small
piece of bread or a small sponge which
is just saturated and a little excess
liquid left in the plate. Flies that
drink this liquid are dead in a few
minutes.
Sticky fly paper, as recommended by
Kansas State Board of Health is made
by heating together two pounds of rosin
and one pint of castor oil until the mix
ture has the appearance of molasses.
With an ordinary paint brush, this
mixture is spread while hot on any
kind of paper. If annoyed by the drip
pings from the suspended papers, they
may be attached to a board in the
shape of an inverted Tee, the flat cross
piece catching the drip.
An excellent cockroach powder, ac
cording to Mail can be made as follows:
Mix flowers of pyrethrum and sodium
fluoride, equal parts by weight. The
mixing must be done very thoroughly.
The dust is used with a dusting gun,
certain types of which can be purchas
ed for as little as 50 cents. Such a
powder should not cost more than 40
cents a pound and will be the equal
of commercial roach powders.
Coated with dust when it encounter
ed storms in the Dakotas, a passenger
train was halted at Livingston for 10
minutes that its coach windows might
be washed.
SPOT CASH PAID FOR
DRESSED Poultry
FRESH EGGS
PROMPT RETURNS.
HONEST WEIGHTS
SUN PRODUCE CO.
HELENA, MONTANA
Grazing Tract
MAW Acres at $3 Per Aera
Agricultural Lands
tn the Clark's Fork Valley, terms of
10 per cent down, balance 10 yearly
payments, bearing 6 percent interest
For Further Information Write
BLACKFOOT LAND
DEVELOPMENT CO.
Drawer 1243 Missoula, Mont
QUIVERING
NERVES
Yield to Lydia E. Piiikliam*a
Vegetable Compound
Whm you an juot oa edge...
when you caa*t etaad the
drm'a notoo. . . whoa oraythiad
!■ aniof
table and Huo... try tMe medb
THE HARDIN TRIBUNE-HERALD
Soil Control for Better Crops; Food
Elements Needed for Plant Growth
How soil control contributes to big
ger yields of better crops was graphi
cally portrayed in motion pictures, pro
duced by the Great Western Sugar
company and shown to thousands of
farmers in Montana this spring by the
fertilizer department of the Anaconda
Copper Mining company.
The "soil control" meetings raised
the question: “Is your soil working for
you or against you?” It was pointed
out how every farmer must meet this
problem, regardless of what crop he
grows. It was shown how, within the
range of humanly controllable factors,
the soil must be controlled for success
ful farming.
To control the soil, we are told, it is
first necessary to answer the ques
tion: "What is the soil?" The soil is
a dynamic mass of organic and inor
ganic particles. It is very complex.
But to simplify it the picture shows;
us the chemical elements in 100 pounds
of soil. There are manj - variations in
our intermountain soils. Even farms
close together often have wide differ
ences in soil structure.
Our motion picture takes this soil
to pieces. In 100 pounds of soil we
find:
73.0 pounds silica (common sand);
3.0 pounds lime; 1.5 pounds potash; 0.1
pounds phosphate; 0.1 pounds nitrogen;
22.0 pounds iron, aluminum, and other
substances.
The above table is cited only to il
lustrate the relative proportions of the
principal soil elements. It is not in
tended to give the impression that pro
ductive soil could be put together this
way. Plant growth depends also on
bacterial action and other factors the
table does not attempt to cover.
Before leaving this table it is inter
esting to note how relatively small are
the "big three" elements, potash, nitro
gen and phosphate. We find only one
and one-half pounds of potash, and
only one-tenth of a pound each of
phosphate and nitrogen.
Functions of the Big Three”
Briefly consider the functions of
potash, nitrogen, and phosphate:
1. Potash is essential in the forma
tion of starch, sugar and cellulose in
plants. If soil lacks potash, plants do
not mature well. Potash seems to have
a balancing effect on phosphate and
nitrogen.
2. Phosphate hastens the building
up and maturity of fruits, grains, tubers,
or beets. It hastens the transfer of
substances from stem and leaves to the
seed. In the case of grains, it makes
for plump and full granules. Phos
phate also stimulates root development
in very young plants.
3. Nitrogen increases growth of leaves
and stem, and defers or postpones ma
turity. When the soil is short of nito
gen the plant makes short growth and
usually has poor color.
When the soil has too much nitrogen
the nitrogen produces too much stem
and leaf growth of luxuriant green
color, at the expense of the production
of fruits, grains, tubers, or beets.
With some of the functions of potash,
phosphate and nitrogen in mind, as
given above, let us return to our table,
and note the proportion again in 100
pounds of soil.
Regarding the one and one-half
pounds of potash, little need to be said
for the present. Intermountain soils
seem, on the whole, to be well supplied
in potash.
Only .003 Pounds Available Phosphate
In noting that our 100 pound sample
contains only one-tenth of a pound of
phosphate and nitrogen, we must add
that even these small amounts are not
entirely available for immediate plant
use. In fact, only three thousandths
of one pound of phosphate is available,
and the rate at which more may be
come available is so very slow that
future availability is not of immediate
concern.
So availability becomes a vitally im
portant factor. What is availability? A
scientific definition of availability is
very complex, but we can get some
idea of the process when we consider
a cat and a rat in a granary. Tire cat
does not eat wheat. With nothing but
wheat in sight the cat would starve.
But the rat eats the wheat, and when
the wheat is converted into rat-meat,
the cat eats it. In other words, the rat
makes the wheat available to the cat.
In some such way very small organ
isms, called bacteria, make food avail
able to plants, which food the plants
could not eat if it were not for the
work of the bacteria. These bacteria
are necessary for making all three,
potash, phosphate, and nitrogen avail
able to plants for food.
The State of Minnesota Says
capital Wricks THE ST. PAUL HATCHERY HAS
R. O. P. Pedigreed Male Matings
MORE THAN ALL OTHER HATCHERIES IN THE STATE COMBINED
Facts—not mere claims—which Prove Capital Chicks the greatest baby
chick values of 1934. Prices very reasonable.
Code Number 7569. Write today for our interesting free catalog.
ST. PAUL HATCHERY, Dapt. 123 105 E. TMnl St. St. Paul, Mlnnatata
This Strong Mutual Savings Institution
invites you to investigate its many excellent plans for
your savings and investments.
Save and Invest Your Money With The
“SECURITY” And Be Safe.
SECURITY BUILDING & LOAN ASSOCIATION
Home Office: Billings, Montana.
Where Nitrogen Comes From
Nitrogen, as stated above, is a growth
promoting plant food. Since there is too
little nitrogen in some soils, and too
much in others, soil control is neces
sary.
Nitrogen comes from the air, also
through the agency of organic mat
ter. Both animal manure and green
manure play important parts in nitro
gen production.
Nitrogen, as it occurs in the air, is
not available as plant food. Bacteria
makes it available.
Bacteria make nitrogen free of cost
for the farmer. There are two principal
kinds of bacteria doing this work. One
is the kind that causes nodules on the
roots of alfalfa and other leguminous
crops. The other kind are known as
“free living bacteria.” The kind that
live in nodules of legumes are less
important nitrogen producers than the
“free” bacteria.
Activity Must Be Controlled
Free living bacteria have produced
such excessive nitrogen in parts of
Colorado that crops were reduced, and,
in extreme cases, farms and orchards
were ruined. These serious consequences
could have been avoided by soil control.
Where there are high excess nitrates
wheat lodges more seriously, ripens ir
regularly and rusts badly. Potatoes
have vines that are too heavy, less
tubers, lower starch, lower quality. They
are soggy and the yield is reduced.
Onions develop serious rot with the
yield reduced. Cantaloupes ripen late,
yield less, and lack sweetness. Dam
aged crops have resulted. These danger
signs are to be heeded in practicing
soil control.
Before trying to work out a plan
for controlling bacteria it is necssary to
consider animal and green manure.
Although nitrogen comes from the air,
it is held fixed in these manures when
they are plowed under, thus adding to
the sail's supply. Furthermore, animal
and green manures feed and stimulate
bacteria that gather nitrogen from the
air. Thus it is seen that these man
ures add nitrogen to the soil both di
rectly and indirectly.
On soils that have excessive nitrogen
it is advisable to use no green man
ure. Animal manure should be used
only moderately, and it is good to skip
a year between applications.
Cultivation Increases Nitrification
Methods for controlling bacteria are
based on knowledge of soil conditions.
Bacteria are most active when the soil
is well aerated and of high tempera
ture.
Cultivation increases the activity of
the bacteria because it aerates the soil
and may raise the soil temperature.
When growing a cultivated crop,
onions, for example, nitrate-nitrogen
is gathered at a very high rate during
the summer seasons. Onions give very
little shade to the soil, which permits
higher soil tempertaures.
Barley, on the other hand, is an
uncultivated crop. The soil is not
stirred or aerated. The soil is shaded
during, the. summer, months,, con
sequently the soil temperature is low
er. With barley the accumulation of
nitrate-nitrogen is very slow.
Obviously the solution to the prob
lem is found in crop rotation, which
provides for a reasonable amount of
cultivated or row crops, alternated with
grain and grass crops which are not
cultivated.
Thus nitrogen-control becomes a very
important reason for rotation. Rota
tion is imperative.
Rotation Controls Diseases
Rotation is imperative for other rea
sons, important among which are con
trol of pests and diseases. Proper ro
tation controls nematodes while faulty
rotation encourages them. Good ro
tation prevents or delays the increase
of nematodes to dangerous proportions.
Leaf spot control also demands ro
tation. Leaf spot is a fungus disease
which grows from spores. When beets
are grown after beets or, in other words
when beets are grown on fields not
rotated, a full supply of leaf spores is
present. The spores are ready to de
velop and multiply the evils of leaf
spot when conditions of heat and
moisture are favorable.
In review, it is apparent then, that
rotation controls nitrogen, controls
nematodes, and controls leaf spot. Ro
tation is desirable, of course, for many
POULTRY WANTED
Send your live poultry to us, also fancy
dry picked poultry. Highest market
prices paid according to quality on day of
arrival. MONTANA MEAT and COMMISSION
COMPANY. 2800 South Montana Street. Butte,
Mon tuna.
BILLINGS RELIEF
GARDEN SUCCESS
CIVIC ORGANIZATION SPONSORED
MOVEMENT; TRACT OF LAND
SUPPLIES NEEDY
The Billings relief garden of 1933,
brought into being largely through
the efforts of a special committee
composed of Kiwanis members, was
one of the most successful city re
lief measures in that there was but
one garden and beneficiaries of neces
sity were up against the obstacles of
distance in carrying the huge garden
through to completion.
Bruce McKee, bounty extension
agent for Yellowstone county, who play
ed a large part in the successful effort,
organized all those who participated
into a club called the Billings Com
munity Garden club. The club elected
officers from among its own members.
They provided for managers and di
rectors and for regular meetings. McKee
said it was this organization which
really forced the garden project through
to such a successful end.
The most difficult task was the orig
inal organization of the garden. Be
cause of the impossibility of growing
crops without irrigation water, city lots
were out of the question, so through
the efforts of the Kiwanis club a tract
other reasons. It is a good farming
practice.
Phosphate Is Food
It was shown prevoiusly that the nor
mal phosphate content of the soil is
very small, and that the available
phosphate—which is all we can count
on for present crop production—is in
finitesimally small, only three thous
andths of a pound in 100 pounds of soil.
Phosphate is a plant food, not an ar
tificial stimulant. No other plant food
can take its place. If the present sup
ply of phosphate in the soil is short,
the crop will be short until phosphate
is added.
Alfalfa at Fort Collins where the
yield was doubled for the third cutting
and similar Scenes from Nebraska were
pictured. A Longmont demonstration
showed that growth of alfalfa induced
by the holdover effect of 200 pounds of
phosphate applied in 1927 was the
same as the growth induced by the
holdover effect of 150 pounds applied
in 1929—and that alfalfa on land which
had never received phosphate yielded
only half of normal tonnage.
Increases of more than three-to-one
in pea yields and yields of beans in
creased 50 per cent were shown by
actual field pictures.
At Wheatland, Wyo., where more
than 99 per cent of the beet land was
phosphated, growers got a 15-ton av
erage compared with approximately 12
tons in 1929.
It is seen how control of nitrogen
pays, how control of phosphate pays,
and how soil control contributes to gen
eral crop improvement.
A Lady of Distinction
Is recognized by the delicate, fascinate
Ing influence of the perfume she uses.
A bath with Cuticura Soap and hot
water to thoroughly cleanse the pores
followed by a dusting with Cuticura
Talcum powder usually means a clear,
sweet, healthy skin.—Advertisement- 1 -
Hey,
Mister!
How do you ex-
I WM pect anything to
GROW in a hun
-9k W gry soil?
"Don’t you know that all plants
need FOOD? YOU wouldn’t get
very far without YOUR three
square meals a day. Lawns, plants,
flowers are all the same as humans.
They need NOURISHMENT!
r plantoneTl
is the thing they need and thrive on. Feed
’em regular, and they’ll never let you down I”
This Montana made
plant food is scientifical
ly prepared for Montana *1
lawns and gardens.
Odorless, free from weed \ |
seed, easy to apply. Costs Wy
less and goes further. 1
Tone up your plants \ A
with PLANTONE/ f
Sold by Leading Dealers
Anaconda Copper Mining Ce.
Friday, April 20, 1934.
was obtained outside the city, which
was under irrigation. A carefully con
ducted survey located families desir
ing gardens and the work finally was
started. The necessary tillage work
was completed before the various fam
ilies took charge. The entire garden
was then surveyed into tracts and ths
tracts parceled out. Policing of the
tracts, help as needed in emergency,
supervision of water, providing tools
and adjustment of difficulties were all
handled by the officers of the garden
club.
During the year the club officers
arranged for a grand picnic in which
all members participated. While pri
marily entertainment the picnic result
ed in carefully laid plans for canning,
preservation and storing of the garden
products.
At the conclusion of the garden work
the committee found that the garden
had produced vegetables valued at sl.-
629.24. Not included in this figure are
the fresh vegetables which were picked
and used during the growing season.
Nearly 4,500 quarts of vegetables were
canned from the garden. The value
of the vegetables actually produced by
the families was $1,326.91 to which
was added $266.35 grown on unoccupied
ground of the garden plot by the com
missary. On this unoccupied ground
were grown 12,100 pounds of potatoes,
3,000 pounds each of cabbage and rut
abagas and 1,200 pounds of carrota.
The total production was 55,590 pounds
of vegetables or 27% tons and the
canned vegetables such as peas, beans,
com and cucumbers.
S.O.
HUSETH V
Optomerist and Optician
GREAT FALLS, MONTANA
"fvtdtCkotee
OF THOUSANDS of POULTRY RAISERS
Maka money with Maple Dales — they brine yam
highest quality at lowest prices. Maple Dale
breeding flocks are top notch quality, pure bends
Northern, free range, farm flocks of extra ■lr—
vigor and viUlily. /mm. dial. delivery.
Order Direct Frost This AdvertittSMst
M% ALIVE DELIVERY
S. C. White & Buff Leghorns—
-100, $6.75 500, $33.00 1000, SSS
S. C. Reds: Brd. & W. Rocks: Wy Wyan;
Bf. Orps.
. 100, $7.00 500, $34.00 1000, S6B
Assorted (All Heavy) —
100, $6.30 500, $31.50 1000, SB3
Assorted (Mixed)—
100, $6.30 500, $31.50 1000, $63
Master breeding farms chicks Two Cento
higher than above prices. Eggs hatched
weigh 23 ounces or more per dozen. Oper
ating under Commercial Hatchery Code.
Our number 2009. Prices f. o. b. Austin*
Minn.
Maple Dale Hatchery
BOX 53, AUSTIN. MINN.