The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1910-08-25
SEED CORN WEEK SKY Is SHROUDfD
ORGANIZED Effort to Promote ITS
Proper Observance
FBERhART HELPS TOO
The Week of Sept. y to IL Set
Apart for a Good Purpose in
North Star State

Sixty bushels to the acre, instead
of thirty bushels, as the average
yield of corn in Minnesota That is
the gain to promote which the au-
thorities at the University Farm urge
the observance of the week of Sep
TENDER 12-17 as seed Corn Wee1." "
Gov. Eberhart has given his hearty
Endorsement to the plan. in procla-
nation which indicates that he has
given it a careful examination. In it
he sets forth the desirability of great
.er attention to the corn crop on the
part of Minnesota farmers-of an
increased acreage; and, more partic-
ularl., of larger product per acre.
He also calls attention to the greater
. profit which comes from the cultiva-
ton of corn as compared with oats.
The week chosen is less than a
month away. 1t is to be hoped that
ere its arrival every farmer in the
state will be impressed with the de-
STABILITY of his cooperation in the
observance of the week, by making
it his especial business, on one day
thereof, to select his seed corn for
next years planting. The date
selecting the best ears, but as allow
ing ample time for these to be prop
e erly stored and thoroughly dried be-
fore frosty weather can injure the
germ.
Extension Bulletin No 3, giving
full directions for the selection and
the best results in next years crop,
will be sent free to all applicants.
Its reading will satisfy every farmer
that it will be money in his pocket
to observe it's suggestions.
Besides suggesting to farmers the
Importance of saving their straw this
fall, the people at University Farm
also urge the importance of saving all
as a winter roughage; thus making
a saving in hay, the scarcity of which
necessitates the greatest economy in
it's use. 1t is believed that the 1910
hay crop all over the West. is much
behind the usual ten-year average;
and that next winter will develop
prices at which farmers will think
they can better afford to sell their
hay. and feed the cheaper roughage,
than to feed hay to stock. On this
point, however, it will be we'll for the
farmer to be very sure that he has
a sufficiency of other fodder, before
parting with his hay to the detriment
of his stock With the use of corn
binders. the saving of fodder is not
difficult matter. If the farmer has
not enough stock to consume his en-
tire acreage of fodder, he will find
other farmers who are without
enough, and who have stock which it
will be profitable to buy, to use what
surplus fodder is stored from the
corn fields. Save the corn fodder!
Reports from all parts of the state
show a shortage of hay: and the Min.
nesota Experiment Station again
tells the farmers to husband well
their straw. It will be needed in the
20
has seldom been a year when straw
and especially oat straw-has been
so greatly needed for feed as it will
be during the coming winter. Farm
ers will be tempted by large apparent
profits to sell all the hay they can
possibly spare. Hence they will find
a great advantage in feeding their
straw, as far as possible, as a substi.
tute for hay on the farm. The wealth.
er has been favorable for stacking
grain. and the straw ought to be
fresh and bright. When the grain is
threshed. a little care will preserve
the straw in good condition for fod
der
In the livestock. on farm are
concentrated large proportion Of
the values derived from the cultiva
ton of the land and the expenditure
in various other ways, of the farm
ers time and labor. To dispose Of
it before it shall have reached thai
stage of maturity when it will bring
the largest returns is, then, to sac