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THE POTATO
(See editorial on page 39.) DISEASES AND TREATMENT.
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Illustration of potato scab. Never plant a scabby potato. Whenever the skin is injured, a rough, corky layer, in which the fungus lives over winter, is formed. The spores may also stick to the surface of potatoes that are not scabby. As seed treatment will kill the spores, all seed potatoes should be treated. Potatoes free from this disease will become Infected when planted in infected soil. Scab can live in the soil six years and its growth is promoted by alkalis such as wood ashes, barnyard manure and lime, while it is retarded by any acid fertilizer.
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Illustration of common fungous disease which forms tiny, dark, hard specks or germs in groups on the outer surface of potato. These groups may be large or small and look like specks of dirt. When wet they turn black. A fungus grows from each tiny speck on infected potatoes and turns the underground stems brown and kills the "Sets." The treatment given below will kill small colonies, but nothing as yet discovered will kill the large colonies. Infected potatoes will infect soil and the germs will live for three or four years. Therefore, rotate crops and do not plant potatoes on same ground several years in succession.
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Rotation of Crops Is The Surest Way to Cleanse the Soil of all Crop Disease Germs. METHODS OF CONTROL.
1. To secure and maintain sound seed free from all disease, each farmer should raise his own by planting, this year, clean seed on clean ground in a special seed plot, to grow seed stock for next year.
2. Select seed potatoes in the field, before harvesting, from hills with healthy vines which give good normal number of potatoes of uniform size, true to type and free from disease.
3. If forced to use bin-selected seed, choose carefully, discarding all that are diseased. Cut slices one-eighth inch thick from stem end in search for wilt disease.
4. Get sound seed. If you have none and can not find it, write your State Experiment Station.
5. Treat selected seed as your State Experiment Station shall recommend.
6. Rotate crops and do not allow volunteer potatoes to carry over the disease.
7.
Use clover, alfalfa or pea land when possible. United, persistent endeavor will stamp
out these potato troubles as effectively as hog growers of a given district control hog cholera.
"ETERNAL VIGILANCE IS THE PRICE OF SUCCESS."
POTATO SEED TREATMENT.
Described and recommended by Dr. Geo. R. Hill, Plant Pathologist, Utah Experiment Station.
All seed potatoes should be soaked for one and one-half hours in a solution of mercury bi- chloride (corrosive sublimate), four ounces in thirty gallons of water. (This will kill Rhizoc- tonia more completely than will Formalin.) The solution should be placed in a wooden or earthen vessel (it corrodes metal), poured out and made up fresh after disinfecting four lots. Being poisonous (not to the touch), treated potatoes should not be eaten or fed. After treat- ing seed, store in new sacks which have been similarly disinfected.
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Illustration of a common fungous disease which grows on the inside of the potato tuber, forming an irregular dark ring underneath the surface. It can only be discovered by cutting off the stem end. It grows from the seed up into the water tubes in the stem. This disease stops the flow of water to leaves, through the stem. from roots. Leaves then wilt, hence the name. A thin slice cut from the stem end will show an irregular brown ring if the potato is infected. This ring will turn dark as the po- tato remains in storage and may spread. Seed treatment will not kill this disease on the inside, though it may kill the germs which may stick to the surface of sound potatoes. Infected potatoes carry this trouble to next year's crop and infect the soil, where the germs may live for years. This is our most serious potato
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FROST IN UTAII.
(By A. H. Thiessen, Director U. S. Weather Bureau, Salt Lake City, with permission of H. T. Haines, Commissioner State Bureau of Immigra- tion, Labor and Statistics.)
The study of frost is one of considerable academic as well as practical interest. The
casual observer has noted in how many different ways frost becomes manifest, on the roofs of houses, on leaves, grass, and on window panes and other objects. The observer may have noted that it forms more readily on some objects than on others, that it is more frequent in some local- ities than in others.
Frost is the congealing of moisture on any object. It may have a crystalline form or not. It may occur when the temperature of the air varies from 50 degrees or lower, provided that other conditions are right. This condition will be defined and explained exactly below. In order that frost may form, the object must have a tem- perature of 32 degrees or below. The question may then be asked, how does frost form at a higher temperature than 32 degrees? To explain this requires more than a word.
During the day the earth is constantly re- ceiving heat from the sun, and at the same time is constantly radiating it; but the amount re- ceived is more than the amount radiated, and
colder than the adjacent air is by the cooling resulting from the evaporation of moisture from the surface of the plant or other object.
The weather bureau is frequently questioned regarding the air temperatures which are pub- lished, some persons having observed lower and some higher temperatures. This is due some- times to a difference in thermometers, but more frequently to an actual difference in tempera- ture due to different locations. The air is always in constant motion, due to unequal heating, if not locally, then at some distant place. Hot air is constantly rising and cool air falling. The question of the location of frost then de- pends upon the topography. An orchard on a hillside may be more immune from frost than one in a valley. The reason for this is that the air as it becomes colder and heavier on the hill- side flows down into the valley and displaces the warmer air of the valley, which rises and flows back to the mountain side over the layer of cold bottom air. This phenomenon is the cause of the so-called thermal belts, where frost sel- dom occurs.
As frost, then, is the result of local cooling and air drainage, it is more of a local problem than a general one; that is, frost conditions of any particular place must be studied with the local conditions more in mind than the general
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consequently it becomes warm during the day. At night, however, radiation takes place without the reception of any heat from any source, and the temperature falls.
When a body gives up its heat, as a lamp throws out light, it is said to radiate its heat. Some objects radiate more readily than others. A lamp-blacked surface is one of the best radia- tors, and it is also one of the best absorbers of heat; while a shiny, or white surface, is the poor- est radiator, and also the poorest absorber of heat.
In nature there are all the graduations from a lamp-blacked surface, or its equivalent, to shiny, white surfaces, and therefore during the night, and even during the day, objects have very dif- ferent temperatures, and indeed very different from the air in the immediate vicinity.
We prevent radiation from our bodies by clothes, and in the same manner clouds prevent radiation from the ground, but in a different degree. From this one would expect frost on clear nights, with the temperature low enough, of course, and frost would form on those objects whose temperature by radiation had been re- duced to the freezing point or below.
Another method by which objects become
conditions.
If one were to examine a chart giving the average date of a last killing frost in spring and first in autumn for a level or plain country, it would be found that the date of a last killing frost in spring would be earlier in the season the farther south one would go, and later in the autumn. Such condition does not exist in the mountainous country such as Utah. A study of the charts show no such regularity. The princi- pal factors in this State controlling frost are ele- vation and exposure. Then there are other modi- fying influences. Wind is an important element; frost is more frequent on a calm, clear night, with the air temperature 8 or ten degrees above the freezing point, than on a windy night, for the reason that the constant passing of air past a plant aids to keep that plant near the air temperature. Wind also keeps the air stirred up, and will not allow it to arrange itself in strata, with cold air near the ground and warm air above.
The study of frost, where and when it forms, is an important one in this State. The farmer about to set out a new orchard would like to know that portion of his farm where frost would not occur. or if it does, there is always
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a part where it is Icss severe than other parts, and that is the place where the orchard should be. In general it may be said that a southern slope would be the best. Bottom land should be avoided, as the cold air from the hillside drains into the lowlands and aids the formation of frost. General notions as to how frost forms arc valuable in aiding one to judge correctly in regard to this matter, but onc should also make a temperature survey of his land with a thermometer before locating the site for an orchard.
In Utah fruit suffers more than perhaps any other one crop from frost. Apricots, cherries, peaches and sometimes apples, are damaged. In the fall tomatoes should be protected, and also alfalfa seed.
The method which is generally used for pro- tecting fruit buds is the orchard heater, burn- ing either coal or oil. Tomatoes may be pro- tected by a good smudge, as in the fall frost gen- erally occurs on quiet, clear nights and usu- ally a smudge will provide a sufficient blanket to prevent further radiation, and consequently the frost.
Alfalfa seed may be protected by cutting the crop and stacking the grass. In this condition only a small percentage of the seed becomes
Average Date of First Killing Frost In Fall In Utah County.
Sept. 24 Provo
UTAH AGRICULTURAL OPPORTUNITIES. From Facts and Figures About Utah.
(By courtesy of H. T. Haines, Commissioner State Bureau of Immigration, Labor and Statistics.
The following information appears in a gov. ernment pamphlet, bearing the title "Utah Agri- cultural Opportunities," issued by the Division of Information, Department of Labor. It has been translated into several languages and given wide circulation by the United States govera. ment. Data was furnished by our Utah depart. ment, and the matter epitomized to meet the requirements of the Washington department.
Only a small portion of the State of Utah lies at altitudes less than 4000 feet above sea level. Practically all of eastern and south-eastern Utah consists of a series of broad, elevated plateaus, deeply cut by canyons and narrow stream vai- leys. The western portion of the State lies en. tirely within the Great Basin region and is sep- arated from the more eastern portion by the steep slope of the plateau.
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frosted. Alfalfa seed matures very unevenly, and therefore an early frost catches the seed in all stages of growth, part being in the dry ripe stage, part fully developed but full of sap, and part not advanced enough to germinate. During this period about 10 or 15 days before the crop is cut the seed increases in weight from 50 to 100 pounds per acre every 24 hours. The grower, therefore, is tempted to allow the plants to re- main standing until the last minute, in order to secure this increase in weight. When seed is sell- ing for 12 cents per pound, the increase amounts to about $9 per acre per day. If
alfalfa seed is frosted, it becomes dark, an1 although it will germinate as well as the bright. yellow seed, it does not sell for nearly as much.
The alfalfa seed grower upon receipt of a frost warning puts all the mowers he can in the field, cuts and stacks all the alfalfa he can so that it will protect itself. In this condition very little of the seed becomes frosted and consequently blackened.
Average Date of Last Killing Frost In Spring
In Utah County.
May 18
Provo Thistle June 6
Climate and Soll.
The rainfall in the north central portion of the State is sufficient for growing grain crops on the higher lands without irrigation, the normal annual precipitation in that section be- ing about 15 inches. In the rest of the State the normal annual precipitation ranges from 5 to 10 inches. Irrigation is practiced throughout the State.
The Utah type of climate is known as conti- nental climate and is not subject to wide ex- tremes throughout the day or year. The tem- perature of the State averages 49 for the year. The coldest month is January, with a mean tem- perature of 27, and the hottest month is July, with an average temperature of 71.2. The health reports of the government show that Utah has an average death rate of 10.S per thousand, while the average death rate for the whole country is more than 15 per thousand.
The northeastern corner of the State is filled with high mountains, covered with trees and nutritious grasses. The western half of the State lies within the Great Basin. In this sec. tion the soils have been formed by the action of a prehistoric lake, which formerly covered the whole of what is now known as the Great
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Basin. The washings from the mountains were carried down into the lake by the rivers and distributed over the lake bottom to form the soils of the present day. Their lower layers, to a depth of 40 and 50 feet, are almost as fertile as the surface soil. The high plateau soils and sub-soils are also of remarkable depth and fer- tility. In the mountainous regions the small valleys are filled with washings from the moun- tains, forming soils of high fertility. The fact that the rainfall is not sufficient to drain through the soils to wash out the fertility has conserved for untold ages the store of plant food.
Irrigation and Dry Farming.
Recent investigations by the Federal govern- ment and the State have located large bodies of underground water. The State has already suc- ceeded in reaching subterranean water that may be used for culinary and irrigation purposes in some of the most desert places of the State. The probabilities are that in the very near future artesian wells and the pumping of water from deep wells will be important factors in the reclamation of Utah.
In Utah there is land locally known as dry- farm land, and tracts of it are selected from time to time and set aside by the government for entry in sections of the State where the annual
the beginner in the face. The methods arc sim- ple, clearly outlined, and easily mastered. Suc- cess lies wholly in the ability of the farmer to till and fallow the soil, maintaining a surface mulch that will retard evaporation and retain the moisture of the natural precipitation at the roots of the plant crop.
Dry-farm land is usually tilled in alternate seasons. This is done for the purpose of avoid- ing the possible loss of seed and labor during a year in which the average rainfall is below normal. It has been demonstrated that the precipitation of one season may be stored in the soil and used in connection with the rainfall of a succeeding season, thus insuring sufficient moisture to mature a crop.
Dry-farm lands yield from 15 to 30 bushels of wheat to the acre. The State Agricultural col- lege has records of dry-farm yields exceeding 50 bushels to the acre under exceptional condi- tions. Oats run from 20 to 65 bushels to the acre. Potatoes and other hardy varieties of vegetables are successfully grown on dry-farm land, and in sections of the State where the average annual rainfall is in excess of 17 inches, peaches and apples, as well as other fruits, are grown.
Of the 21,676 farms in the State in 1910, 19,709, of 91 per cent, were reported as irrigated. The
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