Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 16, 1920, Page 2

#Aqe TWo "PREPARE SEED " BED FOR OATS Is Better for Good Yields Than Plowing. " BRLY SEEOING DESIRABLE Care Should ‘Be Taken to Secure New Stock of Seed for Sowing Where Local Supply Is of Poor Quality —Use Clean Seed. OPrepared by the United States Depart- ment of Agricilture.) When oats follow a cultivated crop, which is wsually the case, it 1s not | generally mecessary to plow the land ' before sowing. ‘Oats do well on fall- -plowed land, but-it the land has not ibeen plowed in the fall, better ylelds ;are. usually ‘produced from sowing n @ seed bed made by disking and har- rowing than in ome made by spring .plowing. Early seeding for oats s very desirable. As a good seed bed can be made much more quickly with the disk harrow than with the plow, on i 1and that was in a cultivated crop last year, the saving in time is an advan- : tage. Two diskings and one harrowing with the spike-toothed harrew will - put clean land in good shape for sow- ! ing with the drill, ' Buying Seed. It local supply of seed oats is of . poor quality, care should be taken in ! getting a new stock for sowing. It is i better to get this supply from points to the east and west than from peints ;morth or south, as the varieties are | more likely to be those which will do | well locally. ® Varieties which may be ! best two or three hundred mileg to the “morth or south may not be at ‘suli- able, If new seed is wanted, ask the county agent or the state experiment station where to get it and what va- rieties to buy. If you have been growing a variety _which does well in your locality it .18 better to sow well-cleaned seed of : that variety grown on your own farm or in your county than to get seed from a distance. It takes oats a year or two to get used to the soil and climate in any locality, and they will not do their best until they become adapted to local conditions. If the eats grown locally were injured more or less last summer by rains after harvest, make a germination test and prove that they will not grow before you decide to send away for seed. If !your oats are light and chaffy take out about two-thirds of the lightest of them with the fanning mill ahd use the other third for seed. The idea that oass run out and that it is necessary to get new seed every few years is quite common, but it is Cutting a Crop of Oats and Vetch. not justified by the facts. There is no reason, why a good variety of oats should !nt be just as good twenty years from now as it is now, if care is tuken 'to keep it pure. Clean and Grade Seed. The seed should be cleaned and graded each year, taking out the weed seeds and the small kernels. It should also be treated for smut at least once in two or three years. If the seed is of good quality it will not pay to run it through the fanning mill more than once, to take out the small kernels and weed seeds. If the seed is poor or very weedy, running it through a second time and taking out, two-thirds or more of the grain is well worth while, The reason it is best to take out the small kernels is that they do not make as strong plants as the large ones. The weak plants from these small. kernels usually produce little grain. If the kernels that are sown are all about the same size the plants will be uniform, the crop will all ripen at the same time, and the yield will be better. Sowing With Drill Is Best. The best way to sow oats is with the grain drill. Drilling gives a more even stand than broadcgst seeding, for all the seed is covered to about the same depth. In sowing broadcast, some of the seed may not be covered at all and some may be covered too deeply. Germination is better from drilled seed and the growth is more uniform throughout the seuson. In _numerous tests at the experiment sta- tions drilled oats have outylelded oats sown broadcast by several bushels to the acre. Better stands of grass and clover: can also be obtained in arilled than in broadcast oats. e Exit Automobile and Enter Fool-Proof Airplane? HE world is now entering the aerial age—the last stuge of civilization. This Is the opinion of Prof. Samuel Pickard, president of the Kansas City (Mo.) Aeroplane school. or rise directly in the alr, for it is nothi motor will be necessary. “Man has conquered land and water transportation,” said Prof. Piekard, “and he-is now conquering air transportation, Air travel eventually will be safer than traveling by land or water. In fact. it is now only a question of a few months* when a new fool-proof machine will be ready for the market. “It is a simple combination of ‘the features of the aeroplane and balloon, with helium gas. The new air machine will be on an equal competitive basis commercially with the automobile. It will enable one to land on the street ng more than a lighter-than-air aixplanc. “These machines will be small in size, not much bigger than the present five-passenger automobile. It will be possible to rise or descend with ag much facility and ease as to go forward or backward. As much of the power of the present plane is utilized in keeping the machine aloft, only a lightweight “The new type of machine will be absolutely safe and in perfect c¢ontrol at all times. It will be possible to operate it at any speed, from two or three miles up to sixty or 125 miles an hour, depending upon the power of the motor. “It will be the universal mode of transportation and travel. The cost of produclng_the machine will make the selling price within the reach of prac- tically everyone, including the skilled workman, whose present income is suffi- sant to buv and onerate one.” GIVE IT TIME. “Boll my egg three minutes.” «siScuse me, Dat alg is jes’ out o cold storage an’ three minutes won't much more dan jes’ thaw it.” Friendly Bill. The man I like Is Bill McGuire; He stops and helps Me change a tire. One Better. Manager—This magnet will draw three pounds of iron from a distance of ten feet. Rube—That’s not much. I know something that draws me every Sun- day, over.three miles of plowed fields, and I weligh 125 pounds. ' . Needless Labor. “John,” said the nervous woman, “I think there is a burglar in the house?” “Nonsense! Why should a preda- tory person.take the trouble to break into a dwelling when he can walk around a few blocks and gather up gallons of priceless milk?” Following Instructions. Father—And when you quarreled with the boy did you follow your Sun- dey school principle and give him a soft answer? * Bobbie—No, not exactly; I made an old soft tomaeo do the answering. Smart, at That. .. I guess my wife thinks I'm a pretty smart man.” “Why? “She admits that I am half as smart as she thought I was the day we were marrl.cd." Fairly So. “Did you follow the diet 1 advised?” “Yes, doctor.” “Religiously ?” “\Why, tolerably so. 1 sald grace about three times out of five, I should guess.” A Painful Matter. “Pat, it's lookin’ seedy ye are. A shave wouldn't hurt you a bit.” “Faith, Moike, if yez could see me razor yez wouldn't say that.,” Running True to Form. Debs—He's got a wonderful collee- tion of old curlos. It's worth while to see them. Gebs—Yes, 1 know it is. I met his wife at the dance the other night and I think she must be about the oldest curio he has. o Passing of a Pre-War Pet. Nowadays, if ypu decided to make a present to your youngest nephew, you couldn’'t find a Japanese waltzing mouse in the country. It is true that their .dervish dance is out of date in this age of shimmy shakers. -But that doesn’t account for their extinction. The war, which took so many lives, reached even to the mouse world. Breeders no longer raise these eccen- tric little creatures, according to Ed Honey, the bird and fish man. Per~ haps they stilt live in Japan, where they are kept through immigration laws. Bat as far as this country goes, these busy pets of children are now but a memory.—Minneapolis Journal Gum From Sorghum Husks. French scientists have found that sorghum husks yield a gam which can be used for dyeing wool, silk, leather and vegetable fibers. The possible colors, which are sun-proof and soap- proof, are various shades of réd and pink, gray and dark brown. - JUST LEAVE IT TO TERRY Harvard Authorities and Students Rely on Memory of Colored Human Encyclopedia. No one knows how he does it. He doesn’t know himself. Yet Terry never forgets a face or a name. He never took a memory course. He never did any special mental gymnastics to de- velop his memory., He has.no theories on the association of ideas. He has no little tricks, such as remembering a man’s name is Carpenter because he 18 built like a lath. He simply re- members, that’s all. Terry is a roly-poly little colored man who for 19 years has been the buman encyclopedia of the rgcorder'l oftice at Harvard college. Every Har vard man since 1900 knows Terry, The remarkable thing is that Terry knows every one of them. More than 10,000 men have come and gone in Terry’s time. Terry remembers them all. His extraordinary faculty for re- membering names and places caused his being (installed in the position of Itving encyclopedia, not only on all Harvard men, but on Harvard history gederally. { When members, offthe; fac- ulty want to know the date of the fire in Weld hall, or when the course Gov- ernment 7B was started, or the names of the most recently elected overseers, or the score of the Harvard-Williams baseball game ten years ago, Oor any miscellaneous bit of Harvardiana they don’t take the time to look it up. They ask Terry. And Terry always knows, Subscribe tor the Pioneer. PHONE 77 For your Livery” Car Service and Courtesy Our Motto Ward Bros. . Auto Livery THE“BLUES” Causéd by 'Acid-Stomach Millions of people who worry, are despon- dent, have spells of mental depression, feel blue and are often melancholy believe that these conditions are due to outside influcnces over which they have little or no control. 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