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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1914
Page
11
E M Freeman of the Minnesota Experiment Station explains corn smut, its spores surviving in manure, spread via wind and manure piles, and the need to remove infected masses. Rotation helps. seed treatment is ineffective. sugar corns show more smut. Old manure is preferable to fresh, and burning infected tissue is advised.
A Dickinson Sub-Station note by BR Waldr on the value of legumes and two grasses, praising brome grass for pasture. It warns cutting timing, notes poor seedability, and suggests renovation by disking or plowing with manure, to sustain yield and palatability compared with timothy and other native grasses.
The text suggests reducing grasshopper populations by winter or early spring disking. It notes disking as a possible method to materially lower grasshopper numbers.
North Dakota Experiment Station Bulletin 107 by H L Bolley outlines wheat sickness and soil trouble. It details constant cropping effects, root and seed fungi, disease spread, and soil sanitary practices, including seed treatment, manure handling, and crop rotation as disease control measures.
In Noonan North Dakota the White Way electric street lighting system lights the business streets along curbs with ornamental standards and five tungsten lamps per post. Described as a bold, citywide advance, the system promises brighter nights and stronger trade, following Grand Forks and other larger towns where it began four years ago. The Noonan MINER quotes local praise and notes Noonan may be the state's smallest city with a White Way.
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