The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, June 7, 1917, Page 14

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Besides developing the strains of wilt resistant flax Bolley applied the formaldehyde method of treating the seed, after first cleaning it carefully to eliminate the disease which might be carried by bits of straw. Today, by using careful rotation of crops, by securing resistant flax seed, by clean- ing it carefully and applying the formaldehyde treatment, the north- western farmer can be reasonably cer- Bolley’s work has added millions of pounds to the annual food production of the Northwest. The next step is for the farmer to get fair prices for this increased production. infectant. These were planted and so were some other potatoes from the -same soil which had not been treated. The potatoes from the disinfected seed came up free from scab, while the un- treated potatoes, though planted in sterilized soil, carried the disease with them and produced a thoroughly scab- by crop. So Bolley gave to the world the corrosive sublimate treatment for seed potatoes. Later, after he had developed the formaldehyde treatment for cereal grains, Bolley applied thisg treatment to potatoes, too. Both are standard forms of treatment today, wherever potatoes are grown. - PROVES TO PEOPLE 2 EVIL OF BARBERRY ‘Wheat rust has probably been given more attention by Professor Bolley in experimental work than any other dis- ease. He has worked along two lines to prevent this. One method has been to select strains of wheat that did not seem to be greatly affected by rust and by breeding to secure strains of wheat Testing seeds for purity and viability in the North Dakota Agricultural college laboratories. laboratories. tain of raising a crop of flax. As a result the annual flax crop has picked up from 10,000,000 or 12,000,000 bushels in 1909 and 1910, to 16,000,000 bushels this year, with good prospects that it may come back to the old figure of 25,000,000 bushels a year. % Potato scab was another disease which bothered North Dakota farmers when Bolley came to the A. C. Some people said the scab was caused by an excess of lime in the soil, others said wire worms were responsible and still others thought. the troublg was that too much farm manure was being used. But Bolley had had some first hand experience with potato scab. The first money that he had ever made in his life was with market -and gardening truck at Port Huron, Mich. Young Bolley was allowed a small tract of hillside land on which to raise vege- tables. He peddled his products on the streets and earned enough money in this way to start him on his college course. THEN HE FOUND A SCAB REMEDY ‘While Bolley was doing this work the potato scab gained a lifelong ene- my. Young Bolley noticed that when he plantéd potatoes on his new land some of them got scabby. These he found, were in the line of drainage water that came from an old potato field, farther up the hill, that was in- fected with the scab. Bolley remembered this experience years later when he came to make a serious study of the potato scab situa- tion. He recognized that the scab must | be due to an infectious disease, trans- ferred from old fields either by drain- age water or by seed potatoes raised on scabby soil. Bolley started in to see if treatment of seed potatoes by a dis- infectant would not kill the disease. He took some potatoes from scabby soil and treated them with a solution of corrosive sublimate, a standard dis- Fifteen thousand tests are made- each year for farmers in these which would be resistant to rust, just as strains of flax were developed, re- sistent to flax wilt. In addition Pro- fessor Bolley has been striking a blow at the cause of rust. As every farmer knows, the barberry bush has been placed on trial, has been found guilty and has been sentenced to die. 'Bolley was the prosecutor and the chief wit- ness against the accused and together with John N. Hagan, commissioner of agriculture and labor, he is slated to be chief executioner. The barberry bush is guilty because it furnishes aid and sustenance, harbor and refuge, to the fungi that later move on and ate ‘tack the wheat. It took a good deal of time to pound into everybody’s head the truth that the rust that attacked the barberry bush and the rust that attacked the wheat were one and the same. Peo- ple said they were different colored, 50 they could not be the .same. But Bolley succeeded in showing them that what they thought were two different rusts were merely different stages of the same rust, and today everybody is willing to have the barberry bush wiped out, because Bolley has shown them the harm it has done. Bolley’'s work in breeding rust re« _ sistant wheat and wilt resistant flax hadn't progressed very far when seed dealers began to make trouble. As soon as Bolley had announced the de- velopment of wilt resistant flax, and while only a few bushels of this seed were in existence, seed dealers wers selling what they called “wilt resistant flax" by the carload. Some of them were going farther than that and were calling it “wilt proof,” though Profes- sor Bolley has never claimed that abe solutely wilt proof seed could be pro- duced. Many farmers bit at the ad- vertisements of the seed dealers, paid extraordinary prices for very ordinary flax seed, sowed it upon flax sick soil and expected to get a crop. They didn’t get one but they did get a sore