The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, April 21, 1919, Page 20

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Why take chances at all when you come to select a machine that may 2 mean so much i m increasing the profit from your cows? There is one cream separator that has been-the acknowledged world’s standard for over 40 years. It’s the one cream separator that is used by the creamerymen almost exclusively. - Dairy farmers the country over know the De Laval and its sterling quality. Experience has shown them that It is the best cream sepa- rator that money can buy Order your De Laval now and let it begin saving cream right away. See the local De Laval him, write to nearest office. The De Laval Separator Co. 165 Broadway 29 E. Madison Street NEW YORK CHICAGO TIRES.%% [] There's &8 way to obtal ’w et m':ntmngn pdeu mm%% tell you. Freshly made tires, GUARANTEED 6000 HII.B ds. id g T SEIVICE AUTO EQUIPMENT BII. 92, Traders Bidg., Kanses Clty, Mo. ---.--.-.-----------l - TIRES FOR Y% I.ESS Represent us in locality. 217 mu“ Kansas City, Mo. Mentiqn the Leader When Writing Advertisers agent, or, if you-.don’t kmow ' L 38 D S L A T A e S — O KEEP the smut out of wheat and other cereal grains the United States department of agricul- ture started a campaign in September, 1917. The campaign is not finished. It has only begun. But 25 per cent more farmers | than ever before planted treated wheat as a result-of the first season’s work, and it is likely that the number of farmers who treat their seed will in- crease from year to year as the cam- paign gains momentum. There are a number of different kinds of smuts which attack the differ- ent cereals—wheat, oats, barley and rye. The most striking feature of these diseases is the appearance of a fine, dark-colored, dusty material which replaces the seed or heads of the grain. This dusty material is the spores or seed of the fungous parasite which causes the disease. Perhaps the most serious of these grain smuts is the stinking smut or bunt of wheat. When the wheat matures it is found that the grains are replaced by false kernels or smut balls. = These are easily broken up into a fine dusty material—the smut spores. These have a disagreeable odor, hence the common name of this smut. This odor can readily be detected on the leeward side of a ripening wheat field. It is also very evident during threshing and on stored grain. It is estimated that the national loss due to wheat smuts—principally the stinking .smut—in the 1918 crop amounted to 25,500,000 bushels. 'The two states of Minnesota and’ Nebras- ‘'ka lost 8,000,000 bushels of wheat from stinking smut alone. The esti- mated loss from oat smuts in 1918 is 110,000,000 bushels, and the estimated loss from barley smuts is 6,000,000 | bushels—a total of 141,500,000 bushels of the three grains. And practically all of that loss could have been prevented—easily prevent- ed.. There is no justification for grow- ing smutted grain, specialists declare. Smut is borne on the seed. Clean grain becomes contaminated in threshing, sacking, storing and drilling. The preventive is to treat all seed wheat before it is sown— either soak it in or sprinkle it with - a formaldehyde solution in the proportion of one pound of com- mercial formaldehyde to 40 gal- lons of water. That is true, at ° least, of practically all of the country. In Oregon, Washington, Idaho and California the soil is infested and ab- solute prevention can not be attained by seed treatment. But that is due to local climatic conditions and, appar- ently, soil infestation does mot occur throughout the rest of the country, and seed treatment is all that is neces- sary to prevent smut. Observation and experience have shown thet, in the present state of Treatmg Seed Grain for Smut Smuts on Different Grains Cause Great Loss — Simple Preventive Kills Pest (By Department of Agriculture) public sentiment, only the most pro- gressive farmers will continue to treat their seed grain. The majority are not yet awakened to the losses sustained and the profit resulting from the inexpensive treatment. After a few years under demonstration meth- ods, it is probable that the practice- will, become fairly universal and that losses from smut will be reduced to a negligible amount. OUR MERCHANT MARINE Washington, D. C. Hon. Edward N. Hurley, Chairman U. S. Shipping Board: The press carries a story that you have arranged with the United States Chamber of Commerce to get an ex- pression of opinion from business, civie, industrial and labor organiza- tions of the United States upon the policy that should be adopted by the | government toward the merchant marine. The farmers of America are naturally disquieted by this announce- ment in view of the fact that without exception the larger farm organiza- tions are on record as opposed to any subsidies to the merchant marine. At the conference on the merchant ma- rine held in' Washington, January 22- 23 last, a resolution was unanimously adopted containing the following statement: “It is the belief of this conference that only an American merchant ma- rine developed under private enter- prise will be permanently successful.” We are reliably informed that this resolution was drafted by Harry A. Wheeler, president of the Chambetr of Commerce of the United States. Without in any way impugning the sincerity of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States in its position on this question, we beg leave to suggest to you that the farmers of the coun- try have adequate reason to question the complete disinterestedness -of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States as now organized and directed, and that this feeling has been intensi- fied by the attacks which the chamber of commerce made upon the federal trade commission and the revelation of the connection between the chamber of commerce, the financial interests ahd the packers. We feel constrained to inform you that we do not deem it compatible with the best interests of the country for a government agency to utilize a commercial body for the - purpose you propose, and particularly a body which has well nigh universally lost the confidence of the. workers of America. The existing lack of confi- dence in the chamber of commerce will inevitably detract from the confidence of the American people in the results of the information which the chamber will seek. GEORGE P. HAMPTON, Managing Director, Farmers’ Na- | tional Council. Ignorant About the League, but “Agin” It (Continued from page 10) sociation intended to get into lobby~ ing and into politics. " “We shall watch legislative mat- ters,” he said. “As to politics, we hope to confine ourselves to the realm of (business and keep out of politics. We are pretty cold on the proposition of getting into politics.”. He then was asked about the state- ment in the News that his organiza- tion intended to fight the Nonpartisan league. future. , “Perhaps that was an overstate- ment,” he said, cautiously. “We are not looking for a fight with anybody. I don’t know about conditions in North Dakota. Perhaps they had to:' do what they did there, but such methods do not have to be used in Illinois. 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