Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 6, 1913, Page 6

| pour it over the second barrel of po- Photo Minn. Agncultural College. Fill barrel No. 1 with potatoes and pour the dipping solution over them. While the potatoes are standing in the solution fill barrel No. 2 with potatoes. lution in barrel No. 1 draw off the sol the potatoes in barrel No. 2. barrel No. 1 and the barrel filled with over them when the potatoes in barr the required length of time. When the potatoes have stood the required time in the so- ution at the bottom and pour it over The potatoes can now be dumped out from potatoes ready to pour the solution el No. 2 have stood in the solution An extra supply of the solution made up at the required strength should de kept on hand so that whenever the solution fails to cover the potatoes eor part of it is thrown away more can be added. e e ¢+++++++++++++++: + Treatment for * & -l- : Potato Scab. * / £ ¥ By A. R. KOHLER, Assist * + ant Horticulturist, University : Farm, St. Paul. * R ol R R K The past season was favorable to potato scab with the result that the seed potatoes are more scabby than usual on many farms. Potato growers are alive to'this fact and inquiries Mave been coming in ever since the first of the year asking how to treat seed potatoes for scab. ! The remedy generally used in the freatment of potatoes for scab is for- maldehyde of the strength known as ‘40 per cent. The solution for dipping e prepared by mixing one pint of for- maldehyde with thirty gallons of wa- ‘ter. The potatoes should be immersed 4n this solution for two hours. Ordinary ftifty gallon barrels, such @8 vinegar barrels, which may be ob- ‘tained from grocery stores, are very eonvenient for this purpose. Where ‘but small quantities are to be dipped one barrel will do, but with larger quantities it is more convenient to swork two barrels together and have !as many sets of twos as may be need- ed to supply dipred potatoes at the desired rafe. y ‘Where two barrels are used together as a working unit, a hole must be bored in the side at the bottom of each one and plugs fitted into these holes. The holes should be from one and one-half to two inches in diam- eter. The barrels should then be.set up on a platform high enough so that 4| @ good sized pail can be set under them to catch the liquid when the piug is pulled out. A convenient method of procedure in dipping the potatoes is as follows: Fill one barrel with potatoes and pour in enough of the dipping solution to cover them. While the potatoes are Photo Minn. Agricultural College. Healthy and scabby potatoes. soaking in this barrel, fill the other barrel with potatces. When the po- tatoes have been in the first barrel two hours, draw off the solution and tatoes. The first barrel can then be dumped and refilled with fresh pota- toes. When the potatoes in the sec- ond barrel have soaked two hours the solution can be drawn off and poured over the fresh potatoes in the first barrel, and the same process repeated from one barrel to the other as long as there are any potatoes to dip. The writer has found it very convenient to haye an old alarm clock around while dipping potatoes. By setting the alarm 80 that it would go off a few minutes before the time was up the danger of leaving the potatoes in too long and thereby injuring them was practically eliminated. The dipping solution should be freshened up a little each time a bar- +| relful of potatoes is dipped by pouring two or three gallons of fresh dipping solution over each new barrel of pota- toes just before pouring in the old so- lution from the other barrel. The ad- dition of fresh solution is necessary in |order to maintain the strength of the dipping solution. The trouble in doing this is slight if a clean extra barrel is kept on hand in which a supply of thirty gallons of fresh mixture can be prepared at a time. The old method of dipping potatoes {8 in sacks. This method is objection- able because the sacks form a chem- {cal combination with the formalde- byde and make the dipping solution weaker. After the potatoes have been dipped they ought to be cut and planted Wwithin half'a day or spread out to dry. It allowed to stand around in a wet condition considerable injury may re- sult. Where planting is done on a large scale it would probably be most de- sirable to plan on dipping the potatoes far enough ahead so that they can be dried before cutting. If a special dry- ing platform were prepared for this | purpose with a floor made of lumber three or four inches wide and with cracks an inch wide between the boards, and this floor were set up about eighteen inches from the ground 80 that the air could circulate freely| under it, the potatoes would dry very rapidly. The potatoes should be spread out in a layer about six inches deep. The platform should be located where the wind has a good chance to get at it. If desired, potatoes can be treated in this manner some time be- fore they are to be planted and stored away again until needed. An important matter to keep in mind in connection with treatment for potato scab is that it is what may be called a ‘“germ” disease. Sacks which have contained scabby pota- toes have the scab germ on them and if treated potatoes are put back into such sacks the germs will get back on the potatoes again and them. For that reason new sacks, baskets and shovels should be used for handling dipped potatoes, or else they should be treated just as the "potatoes are 'in order to kill the germs infect ;* on them. The same would be true of putting treated potatoes into a bin which had contained scabby potatoes. As the bin cannot be dipped:a meth- od of treating it would be to take a broom and with some double strength potato dip thoroughly wash it out. The scab germs remain in the soil where a scabby crop has been grown and continue to live there for five or six years afterward. To get rid of scab in the soil a rotation must be planned so that potatoes will not come on the same piece of land any more often than s necessary, preferably not until the sixth year on scabby land. Dipping should not be neglect- ed, however, if it is nccessary to plant on such land within that time. Manure, lime and wood ashes are favorable to scab and may increase the amount of scab if any germs are present in the soil or on the seed pota- toes to start it. Fresh manure is more likely to cause trouble than rot- ted manure. The best way to handle manure for potatces is to put it on some preceding crop, such as on a clover meadow which is to be plowed up in the fall for potatoes. Some- times manure causes trouble because of feeding the scabby potatoes to the stock and .then spreading the manure on potato land. Cooking the potatoes destroys the scab germs and prevents trouble from this source. Sometimes the formaldehyde ob- tained does not give satisfactory re- sults on account of its being below the required standard in strength. ‘Wherever there is any reason to be- leve that anything is wrong with the formaldehyde obtained, residents of Minnesota may send a sample to the Division of Chemistry, University Farm, St. Paul, to. be tested free of charge. A bottle containing not less than two ounces should be sent. THE FARM TOILET. Every One Who Possibly Can Should Have One. A toilet room is needed for so many reasons that every one who possibly can should have one and it need not be prohibitive in price. Write to the Extension Division, University Farm, St. Paul, Minn. They can send you instructions for installing a full water works system in a small farm home. On the subject of getting water into the house, see “Domestic Water Sup- plies for the Farm,” by Myron L. Ful- ler. This mentions many conditions that may render water from a spring, well, etc., available at comparatively little expense. It is a book which should be in all libraries frequented by farmers.—Juniata L. Shepperd, Domestic Science, University Farm, St. Paul. TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine Tab- lets. Druggists refundmon ey if it fails to cure. :W. GROVE'S signature is on each box. The Mothers’ Favorite. A cough medicine for children should be harmless. It should be pleasant to take. It should be effect- ual. Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy is all of this and is the mothers’ favorite everywhere. For sale by Barker’s Drng Store, Bemidji, Binn —Adv. *lfl | — r—l s R. F. MURPHY Try a Want Al I-2 Cent a Word---Cash AND EMBALMER Oftice 853 Beltrami Ave, OPENS UP NOSTRILS, CLEARS HEAD, ENDS COLDS OR CATARRH AT ONGE Instantly Relieevs Swollen, inflamed ! rant balm dissolves by the heat of the Nose, Head, Throat—You Breathe Freely—Dull Headache Goes— Nasty Discharge Stops. LT Try “Ely’s Cream Balm.” Get a small bottle anyway, just to try it—Apply a little in the nostrils and instantly your clogged nose and sopped-up air passages of the head will open; you - will breathe freely; dullness and headache disappear. By morning! the catarrh, cold-in-head or catarrhal sore throat will be gone. End such misery now! Get the small bottle of “Ely’s Cream Balm” at any drug store. This sweet, frag- nostrils; penetrates and heals the in- flamed, swollen membrane which lines the nose, head and throat: iclears the air passages; stops nasty discharges and a feeling of cleansing, soothing relief comes immediately. Don’t lay awake tonight strug- gling for breath, with head stuffed; nostrils closed, hawking and blowing. Catarrh or a cold, with its running nose, foul mucous dropping into the throat, and raw dryness is distressing but truly needless. Put your. faith—just once—in “Ely’s Cream Balm’ and your cold or catarrh will surely disappear.—Adv. G0OD GROCERIES AND FRESH EGGS I. P. BAT 117 Minnesota Ave. GO TO BATCHELDER’S GENERAL MERCHANDISE AND BUTTER CHELDER Phone 180 Information--Brad 909 Tower Ave., Superior, Wis. K. K. ROE, Agent, Bemidji, Minn. A T SUPERIOR LOTS “The New Steel Center” SOLLD ON EASY TERMS Prices from $100.00 to $300.00 ley Brink Co. (Inc.) 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