The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 28, 1918, Page 8

BISMARCK EVENING TRIBUNE SEED CORN WORST TWENTY YEARS Auditorium” 1918 Crop. | PRICES - 10, 20, and 30¢ TUESDAY, | January 29th NIGHT 7:30 & 9 Do Not Import Seed Uniess Absolutely Necessary—Do Not Cut Down Acre- age—Must Have Corn to Pro- duce Meats and Fats for } Our Soldiers. By P. G. HOLDEN. There 1s nation-wide alarm about seed corn, The condition is the most critical experienced In twenty years. The corn belt has suffered tremendous losses, Frost in September killed the corn and prevented it from ripening and drying out. When the unusually cold freeze of October came great dam- age followed. As a result, the first impulse will be to import seed corn. Corn grown from seed brought in from other localities will be inferior in yield and quality, nd In muny cases, total failure will follow. We must not import seed corn until we have exhausted every resource to obtain seed in our own neighborhood. Rather than go without seed, import It, but get it from just us near home as | possible. Thousands of tests made by experiment stations, tests made in 28 ORMULLER 00 NOT IMPORT SEED CORN PLANT HOME GROWI SEED ‘a sal | UNDER THE AUSPICES OF TROOP 3, BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA . The Great American Naval Drama IMPORTED TAKEN , | , e ® ; states by the government, and the re- e ‘ ° sults borne out In actual experience, | show the danger of importing corn. | 4 . 2 _ ‘ These facts are not the results of one test, for one year, in one locality. | but for a period of eigit years in 33 different counties in Iowa with over | 6.000 tests. In not a single case did | the imported samples equal the home- { grown seed. The home-grown corn, in | every test, outylelded the imported corn on an average of 20 bushels to | the acre, and was of better quality. | Will we ever learn to save seed? | We can import potatoes, oats and | wheat, but we cannot import seed curn | and expect to get as good results as we would get from corn grown in the | immediate neighborhood. It will be | impossible to measure the loss of land, | i labor, food and money to the people of this country if we fail to realize the | importance of these facts. | If you have old corn left over from | your 1916 crop, keep it for seed and | test every ear. Do not conclude toe | soon that there is no seed corn in your ; locality. Ask your county agent— | write to your agricultural college. | A K . Do not let the seed corn situation | : discourage you. The government is | ee e asking for meats and fats for our sol- 9 " diers, and we must have corn to pro- | ra} ec anle Ss ear m a & er duce them. Regardless of conditions 9 e we must grow our usual acreage of i corn; don’t cut it down; don’t put off fi testing; don’t import unless absolutely . at necessary. We will not have fats and n ear m. enson ments without corn. If you have no 9 seed corn, don’t wait until planting WY ween nacan A PRODUCTION THAT WILL STIR THE YOU WILL SEE EXPLODING HARBOR uation, the Agricultural Extension De | PATRIOTISM OF EVERY AMERICAN. ; MINES, BATTLESHIPS, MONITORS, HYD- partment of the International Harvest- er Company, Chicago, will send, free of charge to any farmer, merchant or A THOUSAND THRILLS AS YOU FOL- ROPLANES, DESTROYERS, CRUISERS and banker, paper patterns of seed corn | faltrectns tor tsg era LOW OLD GLORY TO VICTORY. SUBMARINES IN ACTION DURING A mz SPECTACULAR S : ‘ CONFERENCE NAVAL BATTLE. COMMITTEES ARE AGREED (Continued From Page One.) house are charging the senate with re- sorting to dilatory tactics, and the sen- 4 ators retaliate with accusations of camouflage against the league major- ity in the house. There is an unie- fined undercurrent which might indi- cate that most anything may yet hap- pen, although on the surface there is apparent a much better entente be tween the two houses and the opp»s- ing factions in both houses than was common a year ago. BISMARCK PIONEER DROPS DEAD TODAY BS Olas Franklin, aged 76, one of the £ oldest residents of the city and num- bered among the first pioneers to set- tle here, dropped dead at his home in Avenue A, at 9 o’clock this morning. Death was due from old age. Mr. Frankiln was the founder of the Franklin house and for many years | conducted a first.class hotel there. For. many years he has lived retired. He is survived by the widow. ¢ ae _. Dies In Hospital. Michael Keegon, aged 66, of Huff, died Sunday night in one of the local hospitals. Funeral services will be conducted in St. Mary’s church Tues- day morning at 8:15. The body will te taken to Rosemont, Minn., for burial. ‘| : (Advertisement) 4 When you are wearied from over work, feel listless and languid, can’t sleep or eat as you should, you are getting rundown—an easy prey to) dangerous disease germs. Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea—nature’s herbs —should be taken without delay. - §08.. BRESLOW'S.