Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 167, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1914 — HOW TO CURE WHEAT SICK SOILS [ARTICLE]

HOW TO CURE WHEAT SICK SOILS

Prof. H. L. Bolley, Fargo, IJo. Dak., has recently issued bulletin No. 107 on the subject of wheat Professor Bolley is well known for his studies on the diseases of farm crops, and this bulletin is a good summing up of his investigations of the wheat crop. The following statinent, taken from the closing paragraph of the bulletin is significant: •

To th>old Wheat Ralaer: This bulletin contains many statements new to wheat raising. It should be a story of hope. Don’t worry about lost fertility . Save what you can. Most of you have not worn out the mineral fertility of your soil, permanently spoiled its texture, or filled it with toxins poisonous to wheat. You have only been working- in an unsanitary manner; and have, by rather constant culture to wheat and its allied plants, Introduced into-the soil and seed many wheat parasites. Look at the remedy.

Th® remedy summarized: One variety of pure bred seed well graded and properly treated; infected lands purified through >*iop rotation and til huge; purified farm manures applied to the proper crops.