Emmons County record. [volume], February 15, 1906, Image 3

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methods of farming and stock raising—methods largely different from those
prevailing farther south—that have resulted from the experience of practical
fanners and stockmen in both North and South Dakota. There is a large
ami constantly-growing farming population in Kmtnons county. They seek
to prolit by the experience of others in their chosen occupation. We want
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KMVONS COUNTY RECORD
BY D. R. STREETER
Linton, Sorth Dakota.
PIONEER PAPER OF THE COUNTY.
riitr Itecord 1* entered at the Linton Post
office aecond-clu* matter.
his
bill to regulate railway rates
passed the house of reprentatives last
Friday. Only seven congressmen
voted against the measures. It is be
lieved that it will pass the senate.
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Hut in
Rev. Jones, an evangelist, lias
been stirring up nutters and things
at Bismarck. The church where he
held forth was crowded every night
with meek and lowly Iiismurckcrs
seeking salvation. It is proposed by
some that an eloquent missionary be
employed permanently at the Capital
City as an offset to the awful moral
conditions brought about by the near
location of the government post.
he
manufacturers of "snide"
paint are up in arms against the North
Dakota pure-paint law, and they have
brought suit to restrain the enforce
ment of the law. A temporary in
junction was issued by Judge Amidon,
and arguments as to whether the in
junction shall be made permanent
will be made before that judge next
Saturday. Public opinion through
out the state is practically unani
mous in sustaining Prof- Ladd in his
tight against the paint fakirs.
A
new
land district lias been
formed, with the land office at Willis
ton. A part of the Bismarck district
lias been added to the Fargo district.
There is considerable dissatisfaction
with the new Willis ton proposition,
as residents of a portion of the dis
trict are compelled to go through
Minot on their way to Williston. It
is probable, however, that this over
sight will be remedied by re-attaching
to the Minot district tiie townships
referred to. Whether it is the extra
distance to be traveled or the fact of
being compelled to pass through the
wicked town of Minot that the protest
ing citizens object to has not, so far,
been announced.
lx another column will bu found a
letter from the Missouri Slope old
timer, James A. (Jimmy) Emmou*, for
whoui this county was named, lie
makes an offer to send free for a time
a sample of a new kind of corn that
lie lias tried himself. Attlrst thought
one would say that a com front so far
south would hardly mature here but
Mr. Emmons resided in this country
many a year, and lie certainly knows
what our seasons are like. Any way,
it would be a good idea to try the
corn. Address an envelope to your
self, put a two-cent stamp 011 it and
send it to Mr. Einmons. His address
is "Maramec, Pawnee County, Okla
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klJNNKL DELAYED BBKIt, of tile
Pilgrim's Progress at Sheldon, is one
of the governor's staff ornaments.
Now, when we say "staff ornaments"
we do not mean that the kunnel is
made of the same material as the
world's-fair buildings for indeed lie is
not. He is of the bluest blood of the
conquering hero from Normandy, and
in the old country his family has a
eoat of'arms—or legs—or something or
other. He seriously gives as a reason
for the existence of sucli a manifesta
tion of studhorse aristocracy as a gov
ernor's staff that lie—an alien—on
two different occasions, when the en
tire staff was present, led the crowd
in standing at attention—striking an
attitude—while The Star-Spangled
Banner was being musically murdered
by the assembled multitude. Kunnel
Delayed Beer deserves a pension for
that heroic deed. As soon as lie sheds
the dense growth of hair that now
adorns his teetli he should also lie re
tired as a jiggadier brindle.
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in both the Dakotas
give various explanations as to the
cause or causes that have during the
last few years increased the population
of the northern twin much faster than
that of the southern sister, as shown
by the federal census of 1900 and the
census taken by the states last year.
Among the reasons given is that
North Dakota has two Pacific coast
trunk lines, besides the Soo, which,
with its Canadian Pacific connection,
is really a coast line and that these
lines are constantly working up im
migration. On the other hand, South
Dakota has 110 lines running across
the state, and therefore theinflunce of
the railroads in securing immigration
has not been so great, as their I iocs
have not reached the undeveloped
lands west of the river. Probably the
chief cause of our greater increase of
population in the last live years is
that at the beginning of that period
the northern slate had lalge areas of
government land that could be taken
under the homestead law whileSouth
Dakota had very little government
land left east of the river, and that
wc3t of the river was too distant from
railr oad facilities to invite a large im
migration of farmers. With the
Northwestern and the Milwaukee
pushing through the trans-Missouri
country, it is likely that there will be
a more equal growth of population ill
the twin states during the next live
years.
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Keeps an hand
a large and care./W,
fully selected
stock »f W0
experience of past years—and
especially that of the year 1905-ought
to be remembered by our farmers.
Every one who plants wheat this sea
son should be positively certain that
the seed he puts in the ground will
not raise for him a crop of smut. The
farmers of this county are reading
people. They know what trials with
smut have shown at the experinent
stations of the Northwest. They
knew it last year, however, and yet
many took chances by planting un­
cleaned seed, nul suffered greatly by
so doing. It is no longer an open
question as to nether smutty seed
grains can be so cleaned as to render
the crop they produce free from the
pest. Numerous experiments have
been made by taking seed tainted with
smut, cleaning a part of it and sowing
both the clean and the unclean in
plats distant from each other. In
every instance the cleaned grain has
produced a product almost worthless
011 account of its smutty condition.
Although the "good-seed" people
that were here last week had too short
a time at their disposal to make much
of an oral impression on our farmers:
they left some circulars that ought, to
be in the hands of every grain-raiser.
In order that the information con
tained in the circulars may be gen
erally distributed throughot the coun
ty, the Record last week published a
part of the contents of the circular,
and tliis week we print the remainder
of its contents. The part this week
tells how to treat seed grain fur smut.
Please read it carefully. Not a pound
of grain should be sown this year that
has not been properly cleaned. The
grain-grower has enough unavoidable
drawbacks to contend with, without
inviting failure by neglecting to do
those things that will guarantee
the non-appearance of preventable
scourges. Various merchants of the
county will have a stock of formalde
hyde for sale in time for those who in
tend to clean their seed grain to ob
tain it. That 110 one can safely deal
in a worthless form of this drug is
shown by the following paragraphs
from a law passed by the last session
of the legislature. This law does away
with the fear that some farmers have
had that, if they should clean their
seed grain, there was a strong possi
bility that time would demonstrate
that the formaldehyde sold to them
was a fraud:
"Section 1. (Duty of Manufacturers
and Dealers.) It shall tie the duty of
each and every manufacturer of for
maldehyde (the aldehyde of methyl
alcohol) to be used as a fungicide
within the state, and of every dealer
in original packages of said formalde
hyde manufactured outside of this
state, before the said formaldehyde
is offered or exposed for sale or sold
within this state as a fungicide or for
fungicidal purposes, to submit to the
director of the North Dakota govern
ment agricultural experiment station
at Fargo samples of said formalde
hyde, and a written or printed state
ment setting forth the brand or
brands of said formaldehyde to be
sold, the number of pounds contained
in each retainer or container in which
it is put on tiie market for sale, the
name or names of tiie manufacturers
and the place of manufacturing the
same. The statement shall set forth
in per cent by weight the amount of
formaldehyde contained in the said
solution of formaldehyde, and the
statement so furnished shall be con
sidered as constituting a guarantee to
the purchaser that every quantity
sold or offered for sale shall contain
not less than the amount of forinaldc
hyde expressed in per cent as set forth
in the said statement.
Section 2. (Right to sell in tiie
State—How Obtained.) Every pur
chaser of said formaldehyde in origin
al packages which is manufactured
outside of this state who intends to
sell or expose the same for sale, and
every manufacturer of said formalde
hyde within this state, shall, after
tiling the statement above provided
for with the director of the North
Dakota government agricultural ex
periment station at Fargo, receive
from the said director a certificate
stating that lie has complied witli the
foregoing statement, which certificate
shall be furnished without charge
therefor. Said certificate, when fur
nished, shall authorize the party when
receiving the sauie to deal in this
state in the said formaldehyde. Any
person who fails to comply with tiie
terms of section 1 of this act shall not
be entitled lo such certificate, and it
shall not be construed as applying lo
retail dealers selling formaldehyde
which has already been lalieled and
guaranteed.
Section :i. (Legal Strength.) for
maldehyde, when sold, offered or ex
posed for sale as a fungicide in this
state, shall contain at least 40 per
centum by weight of formaldehyde,
and, if il falls below 38 per cent, it
shall be deemed adulterated within
the meaning of the terms of this act."
The punishment for violation of the
formaldehyde law is made, in another
paragraph, a misdemeanor, and is
punishable by a tine of not less than
$10 or more than $100, together with
cost.
SMUT IN QRAIN.
practical Information ol Value to
Twin-State tirain-Raicer* Sug
gestions As the Right Kind of
Seed.
Smut diseases are recognized by the
apparent transformation of some par Is
of the plant into a mass of very small,
dark-colored reproductive bodies
known as spores. In tlie stinking
smut of wheat tlie contents of tiie
grain are destroyed and replaced by
brown spores. In tiie loose smut of
oats and wheat not only the grain but
many other parts of the head or
clusters are destroyed in this way.
These spores become lodged upon
the grain in the tield or in handling
and are planted with the seed grain.
When thegrain germinates, the spores
of the smut which are lodged 011 the
seed grain also germinate and pene
trate the young seedlings. As the
grain grows the sinut grows inside of
it, but is not apparent until the germ
begins to produce a crop of seed. Tiie
seeds or other parts of the plant are
then replaced by a mass of spores.
The spores of lite stinking smut of
wheat and the smuts ot t.u.
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lur-
ley cm lie killed ontheseedk'rain with
out killing thegrain. thus pivveniiiiir
the occurrence of smut in tin- iT'«p.
•Many farmers in South Dakota hau
already tried some of lie r, at m.-nts
recommended f»1* thi'e smuts and
have been very suecessiul. The f,.w
failures reported have been
due to some carelessness
ing the treatment or to
quality of the chemicals
must Ih understood that
and loose smut of wheat
prevented by the seed
recommended here. In
periinents with seed treatment of coin
to prevent smut have shown that such
ticatnient is absolutely useless. L'oi
the smuts that can he prevented by
seed treatment, the foi maldehyile
ticatnient has seemed to ^ive us jjnod
or better results than any other. This
is the treatment which I lecoiiinicnd
for use.
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used. It
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fact all ex-
Formaldehyde can IK- obtained of
most drug stores at a small cost. It
is used at the rate of one pound of
formaldehyde to fmty-li\e gallons of
water. From one half to two gallons
of this mixture is required for each
bushel of seed grain to In' treated, the
amount depending upon seed and
method used. More isrequired for oats
and barley than for wheat. Three
methods of application are in common
use, viz.: hand sprinkling, soaking and
machine.
Spread the seed grain upon a smooth
floor and sprinkle it with the formal
dehyde mixture. A common sprinkling
can may he used for this purpose
Then shovel the giain over thorough
ly until it, is all wet by the formalde
hyde. After this treatment pile upon
the floor and allow to stand for two
hours, not allowing any part of the
pile to dry during that time. After
it has stood in the pile for the required
time spread out upon the floor to dry.
Sow as soon as dry enough to handle.
Mix the formaldehyde solution in a
barrel or val. Shovel the seed grain
loosely into sacks and place these in
the barrel or vat so that they will be
entirely covered by the formaldehyde
solution and allow to leiuaiii until
thoroughly wet through. When this
is accomplished remove from the bar
rel or vat and pile on the floor or leave
in sacks for au hour. Then spread
out to dry.
The handling and treating of large
quantities of seed grain may be facili
tated by the use of a machine. Sev
eral machines for this purp se are on
the market. One of these, the Owens
Smut Cleaner No. I, has been sent to
the South Dakota Experiment Sta
tion for trial. The trial demonstrated
the following facts: In the treatment
of wheat this machine insured the
wetting of every grain which passes
through It and also removes smut
balls and any other material which
will lloat, such as wild oats, light
weight grain or pieces of straw. In
treatment of oats or barley it insured
the wetting of grain hut does not re
move any foreign material.
All grain treated should lie allowed
to stand for at. least, an hour liefore
being spread out, to dry. Sow the
grain as soon as it, is dried sutlleiently
for handling.
If all farmers would realize the
efficiency of formaldehyde in prevent
ing these smuts of wheat, oats and
barley, none of these grains would be
sowed without, treating.
1. 'lest all seeds to he sown, of
whatever kind, for germination. Iio
not sow seed which germinates poorly.
2. Always secure the lieaviest seed
obtainable, other things being equal
I'se a fanning-mill ami clean so that,
only the heaviest, plumpest s-ed re
mains. even though noe-thinl or one
bail'or in extreme cases, I wo I birds of
the seed is removed. It, pays to do
this. The discarded seed in hi: used
for other purposes than for seed.
it. With small grains, where there
is tiie slightest doubt about, smut lie
ing present, treat the seed grain with
formaldehyde as a preventive.
4. If your seed has become mixed
with other varieties, sow a small patch
of tiie very best, and cleanest seed by
itself and pick out the foreign plants
in the field when they can best be dis
tinguished from the variety you wish
to save. A mixture of variet ies is al
ways undesirable for several reasons.
This is especially true of a mixture of
macaroni and other wheats. .Mixing
of varieties is often brought ab ait 111
tiie thrashing machine and can be
largely avoided by thrashing that for
seed purpose last after the bulk of the
same variety has gone through the
machine.
5. Always keep a small amount of
seed of all desirable varieties over
from year to year, so as not toentirely
lose a choice variety by the destruc
tion of a crop in an adverse year.
(i. if it Ijecomcs necessary to look
for seed elsewhere for any reason al
ways select that which has been
grown in your neiglilxjihoo or as
near there as possible, for the greatest
number of years and has given good
results. Seed from distant sources,
unless it has been grown under very
similar conditions, should be trie I but
sparingly until it has demonstrated
Its adaptability your soil and
climate.
Notice of Final homestead Proof.
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narm-i s»i!ttl*T has tUrfi rioti*«: nf ln-r iui.-n
tinti to niuk« final proof in .support, of h«-r
rlalm, and that proof will Ij
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