The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1906-03-29
THERE ARE MILLIONS IN IT."
Every Merchant Should Read the Plans for the County and State
Seed Contests. Lend Hand.

Schools will be supplied with enough
OF Bulletin No. Fan interesting and
most instructive pamphlet OF 63
pages, to place one in the hands of
each pupil in the Rural Schools of the
County. Each boy will be asked to
join in the County and State Seed
Contest, in either wheat, oats, or corn,
or If he wishes in all three. A number
OF prizes will be arranged for in each
county to make it an object for the
boys to take hold enthusiastically
He will have quarter acre on his
fathers farm set aside for him, and
will follow carefully the instructions
given in the Bulletin. The contests
will be held in each County in the
Fall, at a time and place to be fixed
hereafter. The contest day will, as far
as possible, be made good deal of an
occasion. The farmers generally will
be invited to see the exhibits and
witness the judging. The judges will
be sent out from the School of Agri-
culture, and will avail themselves of
the opportunity afforded by such a
| gathering of farmers, to give them
practical instruction in the selection
of good seed, and the best methods of
soil cultivation, crop rotation, etc.
Those who are prize winners in the
County contests will take part in the
State contest to be held in st. Paul
next January. In the State contest
there will also be numerous prizes, of
a substantial nature.
One of the very best features of this
whole scheme is that it is intended to
stimulate the interest of the farmers
boys in scientific farming. These
boys are to be the farmers of the
future, and the keen interest thus
early aroused, is sure to lead them to
seek further instruction, and doubtless
in many cases will result in their
attending agricultural colleges. But
that is not the only benefit. Another
important result will be the effect that
it will have upon the parents of these
boys. The parents will watch the
experiments quite as closely, and with
quite as much interest as the boys
themselves, and, if, as is almost sure
to be the case, the boys, on their
quarter acre tracts, produce larger
yield per acre and better quality of
grain, than their fathers do on their
larger fields, these same fathers will
begin to do little thinking. Possibly
some of the suggestions contained in
the Bulletin, which proved go success
full on the boys quarter acre wheat
field, will be adopted next year by the
fathers.
This is educational work of the most
practical kind. First, it is carrying
education from the Agricultural.
! College to the Rural Schools, and
thence right to the farms-the very
place it is intended for. Second, it is
making instruction interesting and
turning it to immediate practical
account. Third, the experiments thus
conducted are an object lesson to all
the people of the counties where they
are made. The impression made by
local experiments are deeper and more
lasting, than those conducted at the
Experimental Stations, and published
from time to time in the bulletins
and agricultural papers.
To make the greatest success of this
work there must be cooperation on
the part of the County Superintendent
of Schools. He must take keen
interest in it, and enthuse the teachers
of the County, and through them the
pupils. The business men of each
County should cooperate with the
County Superintendent in working up
an attractive list of prizes. The
merchants in those towns where the
judging contests will be held, should
exert themselves to make it success,
because the large attendance of farmers
ought to make it a red letter day.
If this scheme appeals to you, and
we think it must, write at once to your
County Superintendent of Schools,
and see what he is doing in the
matter. Tell him that it is the most
important thing, in your opinion, that
has ever confronted him since he has
occupied the Office, and that he should
make a record for his county on it,
and that you and other business men
stand ready to help him do it.-St.
Paul Trade Journal.
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