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Nfiemlasonsissarrramarmagase ••av GEYSER JUDITIi; BASIN mould spores, which have been dusted TIMES Published every Thursday at Geyser - , Mont. M. E. Parrish, Editor and Publisher Entered as second-class matter March 25, 1911, at the postollice at Geyser, Montana, under the act of March 3, 1879. TnuesDAY, Stet. 5, 1912 To Improve Crops, Select Perfect Seed By PROF. H. L. BOLLEY In order to improve the present de- teriorated . quality of flax, wheat and other cere;l1 grains, the experiments of the department of botany of the North Dakota Agricultural College, together with the teachings of the best agricul- turalists and the known results obtained by practical farmers, allow us to say that such improvements can be made only by taking certain steps of farm procedure. We have listed these es- sential steps as follows: (a) . Get better seed. (b) Establish a consistent, persist- ent crop rotation. (c) Handle your barnyard manures properly with reference to the weeds, seeds and .root diseases which they carry. (d) Disinfect all seed which you sow. In this bulletin I propose to indicate some of the reasons for better methods in harvesting or saving seed grain and to indicate a part of the necessary steps to take in your efforts to get better seed. Reasons for Needing Better Seed Our experiments, extending over a large number of years, have demon- strated clearly that the chief cause for deteriorated seed does not lie in lost fertility. Deteriorated seeds in wheat, in flax, in oats and in barley arise chiefly be- cause of unsanitory methods of hand- ling the seed, cutting it storing it, etc., associated with poor ideas of how to select the seed for sowing. The soil loses its ability to produce plump seed not so much because it loses fertility but because it becomes full of the spores of disease character- istic of each crop. flow to Get Better Seed Raise your own seed. Harvest the seed when mature. Thresh it as soon as dry. (Seed which has been moistened or made wet after maturity can never be good seed.) Store the seed dry. Grade out of it all weed seeds and light weight stuff, including dirt, dust, straw and chaff. Seed should always be a pure vari- ety. never a mixture. Harvesting to Produce Good Seed Each of the points under the forego- ing heading is perhaps clear to the reader except only the feature regard- ing wet grain. Many of the readers have used grain which has been wet in the stack or moist in the bin and, in the past have raised what they consid- ered to be a good normal crop. When you have done this you have been working on new land or clean summer fallow already free from disease. In this short bulletin I cannot give all the details, but let me say we have proved definitely by experiments that cannot be controverted that the chief injury done by wet to the seed grain after it is harvested is due to the action of moulds and parasitic lungs which grow into or tinder the seed coats. Bleached or blistered grain due to wetting in the shock . is largely brought about by the growth of the fungi lift- ing up the bran layers or skin layers. If there are a small number of flax plants which are attacked by its dis- eases, known as wilt and canker, these sick plants are tied up in the bundles or bunches. If you allow tirse bun- dles to get wet by rain, this mould parasite grows all through the bundles, , into the bolls and inside the softened skin covers or coats of the seeds. When threshed, such flax seed is not only thoroughly covered with the off the sick straws, but most of the seeds are full of filaments and cannot be disinfected because one cannot soak such seed sufficiently to kill the fungi without killing the seed. This .state- ment stands good in wheat, oats and barley'. ' If such seeds are planted on clean, new land, each will produce there a plant which will become dis- eased. and there will be produced at this point an area of disease infected soil, which each year spreads to larger areas, until the whole field becomes wheat -sick or flax -sick, according to the crop. We have learned by careful labora- tory trials that the wheat seed from a moderately infected root -rot field can be graded and treated so as to free most of the seed from the root -blight or root -rot fungi if that seed has never been allowed to get wet after it was mature. We have learned that we cannot do this if the seed is allowed to get wet enough to bleach and blister, for the fungi have gained the . interior of the seeds. Plants from the flax seed which are internally sick usually die before two or three inches high, or are sure to produce shriveled or cankered seed if they live. Wheat seeds from a wheat sick soil which are allowed to get wet in the stack or softened in the bin al- most invariably produce root -rot or root -blight when planted in clean soil. Bright, plump, hard seed from a wheat -sick soil or flax -sick soil is prop- erly disinfected on the exterior, very often produces pure white roots, that is to say, a large percentage of such seeds can be properly disinfected so that the young plants will come healthy on clean ground, because, in the case of such seeds, the infecting spore bod- ies are only dusted on the exterior of the seed coats. UPPER OTTER CREEK Ed Landry, Jr., waa a business vis- itor in Geyser on Friday. Miss Elva Jones arrived home Fri- day from Great Falls, where she at- tended the institute. Miss Lena Tintinger of Cascade arrived here Friday to open school. - The new dwelling of Mrs. C. A. Jones has been completed and ready. for occupancy. Miss Mayme Quann, who spent the summer attending the Normal col- lege in Dillon; is expected home this week. Mrs. Harry Thompson accompanied her husband from Monarch this week on Mr. Thompson's weekly route through here selling meat. Philip LeVeille returned home last \Vednesday, after spending a few days visiting Mr. and NIrs. Ed Landry Sr. Mrs. Daniels and daughters, Misses Pearl, Dolly and Grace, also Charles Okerman, were social visitors at Kilt - bey Sunday. H. H. Roberts, one of Barker's prominent business men, passed thin here Saturday, enroute for Nlonarch. H. H. Denny of Power was here last week, selling the famous Watkin medicine. He received several orders here. Mr. and Mrs. Pete Vann were pas- sengers on Saturday's train for Great Falls. They were accompanied by their sons. Ronald and Johnny. the former expecting to remain to go to go to school there. In spite of the cold day Sunday, sev- eral of the neighbors went to Barker for a picnic. By 12 o'clock a large number in buggies as well several horseback riders had come to partake of the goodies and have a share in the merry making. Between the hours of 1 and 2 lunch was served. which we all enjoyed immensely. and all voted NIrs. Bergeron, Mrs. Prevost and Nits. Landry Sr. as the only ladies to prepare picnic lunches. \l'hey had the danuest things on the market and prepared just to a queen's taste. Among the party were Mr. and Mrs. Al Hockett of Monarch, NIr. and Mrs. Ed Landry, NI r. and NIrs. Louis Bergeron, Ni r. and NI rs, NI ac Preston and daugh- ter. Mr. and Mrs. Alex Oriet and children, NIL and NIrs. Ed Landry. Jr., and daughter. Nlis. John Prevost. Nlisses Lena Tintinger, Pansy Ber- geron, Hazel Landry and Georgia Lane, Nlessrs. Norman and Sidney Jones, Tom and Jack I,ane, Dave Meredith, Vital Landry. James. Joe, Amos, kVilliam and Wallace Prevost. Pete Bergeron and Ray Naud. During the absence of the Kibbey correspondent, a party comprising NI rs. Elva Gahan, Mrs. Clara Busch, Mrs. Anna Pattsner, Florence and Blanch Lavoie, had a camping trip in Barker. They - were gone four days, had enjoy- able time and brought home a quanti- ty of huckleberries. Mrs. XVilfred Lavoie is expected back today front Portland. Oregon. where she has been visiting relatives for the past month. August Anderson hauled his thresh- ing machine home yesterday. The separator was left on a ranch belong- ing to Chambers Bros. last wittier. Florence and Blanch Lavoie spent Sunday with Mrs. Hanson. NIrs. Gahan is visiting w ith her daughter. Mrs. Helen Huffman. Ti-.. Trouble In That Family. \You told me when you said goodhy yesterday that I should never see yon again.\ she complained as she straight- ened up beside the tub. - I know I did,\ he replied. leaning wearily against his breath, \bud you know wha' iii' plillosoph'r says, don. shit? 'A bad promise Is thiei bettet broken.' Why donshu try to be (hiei) more philosopidel? Mash wliatsit at ways been the trouble In this!' fain Ode!) Manly. You ain't got 'ny phll Ole!, osophy In your system.\-Chicage Record-Ilerald. Notice \Vhen your watch needs repairing. leave it at the Purdy Trading Co., a Geyser, who will have it done for you promptly and well. All work guaran- teed. STEGER & SONS PIANOS ste i A household name and one that spells the last word in fine pianos More homes made happy and more happy homes satisfied with this wonderful piano than any other instrument in the world today. Do you realize that dealers everywhere are proud to be the representatives of this world famous piano? Do you realize that to obtain this agency required something more than the mere ptacing of an order? The agency for this wonderful piano has never been placed only with the largest and most reliable piano houses in every commu- nity, and by getting it we knew we would be able to furnish our customers with the peer of all pianos. Call at any of our stores and SEE THEM—HEAR THEM —AND PLAY THEN'. THAT TELLS THE WHOLE STORY. Prices :400.00 and Up Easy Payments if You Wish The Redline Piano Co. Exclusive Steger & Sons Representatives Yankton, S. D. Mitchell, S. D. Watertown, S. D. KIBBEY Swan Anderson has recently finished plowing for Chas. Beckstrum. Miss Sigrid Lif left her home Satur- day for Great Falls and also Bennie Gassock for Belt, where they still at- tend school this winter. Bits of Wit Two of Them. His companions hem over him with pitiful earnestness and stared heseecn ingly into his waxen features. Again ea rue the flutter of the eyelids. but this time his will mastered atiproaching Misses Anna and Sigrid Lif and Joe Dumont were evening callers at edx%ti t, hte ti . t eoniniands, and the si.r I h l i is lips weakly struggled to the LaVoie home the last of the week. friends hei s it to hear the follow- ing whisper: \I tun -gone? Yes-er-I know. 110 to NI illy. Tell her-er-1 died with- her name on- my tips; that I-er-have hived -her- her alone-er- always. Anil itesste-tell--er-tell Res- ale the same thing.\ - London Tele- graph. The Twin Cities. The tourist was for the first lime viewing Die Pana n (-its of Colon and the American city of Cristobal sit- ting side by side at the Atlantic end of tt.e canal: la It they call the American city'?\ he asked. \Cristobal \ \That Is too bad.\ he said. \It should, be Colon anti S'emicolou.\-St. Louis Post Dispatch. A Weak Rejoinder. \Our landlady was gummy of an un- Conscious hit of hum a or tedy.\ - what %I:19 w.e - -One of the boarders wsked for it punch, anti she said she never served strong drinks, lad she %%mild give some coffer'.\- A ._ inerica They're AU Doing It. If yon toil ti ii. wi. uiiiu mu It Is good and thick yon will find that pct 7 p e r eent of human energy is dedicated to the ittlere , ting bib of people trying 10 gPt each others titottil or chattels. - Houston l'ost. • A Bright Office Boy. Caller is tbe bass in? °thee Roy - No, sir: li e .s coop (11111 Caller-- %N*111 he he bark after dinner\! Boy - No: !bars what to a gone out tor. - Judge. All one's life Is most , if one touches the notes ari.mi and in bine. Subscribe for the . 1 Imes. Dr. K. D. Armond Dr. Loretta it. Nelson Osteopathlc Physicians mrad Block, Rooms 7 and 8, co. er Strain's Dr y Goods Store, Great Falls, Montana. 'tomb graduates of the A. T. Still Kirk's- die College of Osteopathy. 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STROUP' LAWYER and Plats Furnished Promptly HERE arc enough uncertainties about trading in lands without guessing at the title. Be on the safe side —demand an Abstract of Title. The invention or Hubbard Abstract any patent matter w rite immediate!) to W, W. WR I( registered attor- Company ney, Loan & Trust Building, NVash- ington, D. C. Great Falls, - Montana.
