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Show THE UINTAH BASIN FARMER Treat Seed to Increase Yield sib!et0 8eCnre yIe,,Is 118 The low cost, says Doctor Johnson and the ease of application should make seed treatment to all appeal (By VERA) corn growers In the central of portion Gain of 1 to 12 Bushels of the com belt, where its beneficial effects have been proved. Com Per Acre Reported A copy of Circular 34-I am a boy in. my senior year in (By FLO) may be obtained by writing to the United in Com high school: I like a girl very much. states Department of Each time I rwrlte her she waits Better Study. Agriculture. Dear Miss D. C. three or four weeks to answer, givFlo, United States Department Washington, ' PreD&red br tb of Agriculture.) I am engaged to a young man ing some foolish excuse. who seems to be very nice, and ha? For five cents an acre, farmers in What could you advise me to the central portion of the corn belt Broadcasting Soy Beans always treated me with great re- do? Do you think she cares very can treat their seed corn with a Often Quite Successful spect. I love him dearly, and he much for me? I do not love her chemical dost that will largely pre-- ' On land that Is not very foul with tells me that he loves me. My love enough ever to marry her. vent losses caused by seed-boaffair iwith him seems to i. differ. weeds and when handled A. M. properly, and ent from all others seedling bligbt organisms, according the season is not very wet, have I sver had broadcast Dear A. M., you seemi to be quite to A. G. Johnson, cereal pathologist soy beans are often successfully although I am only seventeen years puzzled, but cant you stop to reof the United States Department of grown, especially if to be used for old. He is twenty-onDo you supalize that many people always deAgriculture. In tests conducted by hay. There Is more risk in pose this is a pappy love affair lay answering letters, and that J. R. Holbert of the department in them broadcast, however. Agrowing or true love? bette this does not necessarily mean anywith Doctor Koehler of way to In the meantime I nave planned grow them is to sow the seed thing. Some people answer letters the Illinois Agricultural Experiment Id rows sw they may be cultivated to finish school and to college, as soon as they get them, others go of Doctor Iowa the station and Reddy One difficulty that comes from broad- but he objects to this. He says it off answering. Agricultural Experiment station seed-cor- casting and covering with a drag Is will be too long to wait. Which do keep patting is There about her deinnothing in resulted treatment has that seeds as large as soys are not you think is be3i for me to do, give should make in that 1 lay 12 to bushels from writing creased yields of likely to be covered well with a drag, him up and go to school, or do as you feel she does not write because an acre. and this gives a poor stand. The he likes. Will he wait for me if ho she does not care for you; on the Treatment Explained. seed cost3 too much to be wasted in loves me truly? other hand, if you do not love the The treatment consists in mixing this way. PEGGIE girl enough ever to marry her, and Soys may be double planted with a the dust disinfectant with the dry, Dear Peggie, I think you should are positive of this, why be so conshelled seed at the rate of two ounces corn planter that Is set for wide rows continue your studies. At least fincerned. of com. Cultivation can be done ish school even if you do not go to to the busheL Doctor Johnson estiAs long as you and she are just e with a harrow or cultivator. college, ""ie young man, will I bea cost total of mates the treating there is no reason bushel of seed, or enough for eight lieve, wait for you ir he really good friends, cannot why you pardon a little taracres, will not exceed 40 cents, or 5 loves you. Soil Best diness in answering your letters. Adapted for cents an acre. The dust is applied You will have many advantages with a mixing machine of the type Growing Soy Bean Crop if you continue school and I am used in treating wheat with copper If soy beans are on clean sure you can get the young man in carbonate dust for smut. A mixer soil and broadcast planted at the rate of two question to realize that. Show him can be made at home if others are bushels one can expect to horw sincere your desire for educaacre, per An ordinary barrel not available. get from two to three tons of hay per tion is. or oil drum mounted on an axis will acre. Soil to in mind that will produce good corn Explain to him that you feel you serve as a mixer, or a barrel chum will raise soy beans satisfac- can be a better wife and mother it usually in addition (act may be used. The dust should be torily. Soil that is too acid to raise blessed with the advantage of a kerso that every thoroughly applied alfalfa or sweet clover will usually good general knowledge. newsnel Is covered with a thin coating. a satisfactory crop of soy reason sure if with Im produce him, you The seed can be treated any time bejob work wp beans if other conditions are good. he will promise to wait for you. Do fore planting, but should be stored of kind. The ground which is sown to soy not be defiant about it, but hold in a safe place because the dust is bebe should beans carefully worked your ground as well as you can and in of poisonous. fore the beans are sown. Frequent he may come around to your way disinfectnumerous dust Although in this line be harrowing is necessary to keep out of thinking. ants have been tested, only three are the foxtail and similar grasses until commercially available at the present the beans get a good start A Tardy Correspondent time. They are described in Circular ,34-"Chemical-Dus- t Seed Treatments Dear Miss Flo, for Dent Corn, Just issued by the 48 )) department and are known as Bayer dust. Improved' Semesan, Jr., and Merko. Names and addresses of the firms manufacturing these dusts are Dig a few dandelions out for your Green feed is good for them. in .chickens. the circular. given The recent tests show that treatment with these chemical dusts beneLimestone and inoculation are two fits diseased seed and does not injure requirements for success with sweet good seed. While treatment may not clover. increase yields from good, healthy, clean seed, such treatment will kill It requires about the same preparae certain to make a good lawn as it does and tion organisms prevent losses which their presence a worthwhile vegetable garden. might otherwise cause. Even many The larger second growth of red strains of corn throughout the com belt, be to clover Is of particular advantage as thought healthy, frequently carry an apprecit comes at a time when pasture is iable amount of infection with cer- badly needed. tain fungous parasites. Such seed manure may result in a poor stand, in blighted Anyone who has hauled plants, or in plants that fail to grow mixed with long corn stalks knows and yield normally. how much trouble the stalks are. With the silo there Is no such waste. Yield of Diseased Seed. At the Illinois is station, seed that In preparing ha for market or use as known to be diseased gave u on .he farm, t mud higher pereent-agyield of 47.. bushels per acre when is of the valuable leaves can be untreated, and when treated gave a loss saved if the hay Is baled, as the yield of 59.5 bushels, or an Increase leaves by successive handlings of 12 bushels to the acre. At the of the loose ha. Is avoided. same station, seed that was pro- nounced good made a yield of 63.2 bushels without The Ideal Incubator cellar or room hair-raisintreatment, but when g treated yielded 65.1 bushels or an inis one in which the air is constantly crease of 1.9 bushels per acre. changing without varying perceptibly The fact that corn from diseased as the temperature of the room Itself. ccd was benefited by seed treatment should not be No stalks remain In the way of farm taken as an argument n favor left In feed of Inferior seed, says the de- Implements and none are out thrown be to partment. Rather, it shows the imracks and mangers Is stored in a portance of treating inferior seed and wasted when feed - ?tLsuch seed has to be nsed, In or-- silo. 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