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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1911-09-28
COOPERATIVE EGG SELLING
Adoption of System Would Greatly
Benefit Poultry Raisers.

A contemporary remarks that ones
appetite for eggs is likely to be spoiled
for long time when he happens to
break a rotten one into his egg
cup-especially if he has already
broken into said cup two other eggs
which were perfectly good" And
that explains the circumstance that
the market demand for eggs is not
half as large as it would be if none
but fresh eggs were offered for sale.
When farmers generally shall adopt
the plan of cooperative egg-selling, as
described in United States Farmers
Bulletin No. 445,"-a specific require
ment of which is that the freshness of
every egg shall be guaranteed-they
will find the chicken-yard more than
ever a profitable adjunct to the farm.
The egg is nourishing, easily digested,
and cheap; and once let it win the
added popularity which would attend
the assurance of absolute freshness,
and Biddy would have to work over
time in order to supply the demand
for her berries"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1911-09-28

but every successful method recog-
nizes the Importance of an even, free
circulation of air.
The best methods arrange the corn
in such manner that the air freely
reaches the outside portion of every
ear. Freshly gathered or uncured corn
should never be piled on the floor,
nor deeply corded upon the drying
rack. Under such conditions it is liza
BILE to heat and quite likely to mold,
either of which will injure it's vitality.
Suspending the ears by means of
binding Irvine, placing the ears in
racks made of chicken netting, or US
ing any form of the seed corn tree are
ideal ways of arranging corn so it
will dry thoroughly Hanging the corn
on the southern side of building,
where it will be exposed to intense
sunshine, is not a good practice. Be-
meath the roof of an open shed, or
under the roof of the driveway, be-
tween two corn cribs, are excellent
places to carry on the curing of seed
corn. The time honored place above
the kitchen is excellent
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1911-09-28

Among berried ornamentals, the High
Bush Cranberry, Sandthorn, Mountain
Ash and Catalogues are especially at
tractive.
The common Wild Elder has been
furnishing an abundance of fruit for
pies and jelly this season, besides be-
ing an attractive ornamental BUSH
Bulbs for fall planting should be
ordered at once. From Sept. Is to
Oct Is is a good time to plant them
out Tulip and crocus do we'll any
where in Minnesota.
Butternuts and Black Walnuts may
be harvested at any time now. They
should be we'll dried before storing
for winter use. y
1t is desirable to either plant at
once, or stratify in sand or leaves, any
nuts that are to be planted
Celery may be bleached by grad
ually drawing the earth up around the
plant; being careful not to put wet
earth near the stem, or to handle the
plants when wet; as this causes rust
ing or decay. Celery will bleach in
from ten days to three weeks. Boards
are often used instead of dirt.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1911-09-28
READY MADE FARMS FOR SET
TIERS.
Plan Should Prove Advantageous to
the New Country.

Plan Should Prove Advantageous to
the New Country.
Referring to the fact that the Duke
of Sutherland has purchased large
tract of land in the Canadian North
west, which he is dividing into small
tracts, each furnished with suitable
buildings-which he offers to settlers
on easy terms-a Twin City paper
says:
''The plan of offering to settlers
ready-made farms on easy terms
should prove advantageous not only
to the newcomer but to the. new coun-
try also. 1t will cut to the minimum
the time required to have the re-
sources of a district yielding the re-
turns they should The purchasers
time and efforts will be conserved. The
project is to the agriculturist what
buying home on the installment plan
is to the wage Garner in the city. The
success that has attended the easy
terms sale of Urban property should
be more than realized on the prairies."
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1911-09-28
QUAILS EARN THEIR KEEP.

Quails will pay for their keep"
many times over, in the service they
will render, if unmOlested, in destroy
ing the seeds of troublesome weeds.
These are their natural food; and if
they sometimes pick up little grain,
it should be allowed them as cheerful
ly as meal to welcome guest at
the farmstead No birds more de-
serve the farmers friendship and
care. Let alone, they will do the COM
munity more good than all the hunt
ing" possible under the conditions
which have so changed our hand that
hunting is in most regions q misfit
occupation.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1911-09-28
The Farmer as
an Educator.
BY c. r. Barns, Minnesota Uni
versity Farm.

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We have read much about carrying
education to the farmer-giving his
children better schools, and himself a
larger share in the current educational
uplift But today the school organiza-
tions in not few of the states are,
curiously enough, looking to the farms
not for pupils with whom to fill the
schoolhouses, but for men competent
to assume the teachers platform as
instructors in farming.
The demand for the farmer as an
educator is one of the interesting
features in the trend of modern edu-
cation toward combination of the
practical and industrial with the scien-
tific and theoretical. The agricultural
college is nowhere fast enough supply
ing graduates enough to fill the cur
rent demand for instructors. Just as
West Point has failed to supply enough
graduates to officer the regular army,
thus compelling the government to
look among civilians for lieutenants,
so have the agricultural colleges failed
to meet tie pressing call of the rap
idly organizing armies of agricultural
students in the high and consolidated
schools. In Minnesota, the grant of
state aid for schools of either class de-
ponds on the employment as instruc-
tors of men skilled in scientific agri-
culture. This is the day of opportu-
nifty for the educated farmer
This new development in educa-
tional ideas is to have a large share
in the process now going on, of ele-
waiting farming to the rank of a pro-
fession, and of making the farm at
tractive to the ambitious boy. The
facts which he there masters-the
skill he acquires in field and garden
may count largely, some day-when
supplemented by sufficient schooling
in securing for him coveted position,
where, to the ownership and revenues
of a farm, he can add the social power
and leadership which attaches to the
holding of high position as an in
structor. His combined opportunities
will far exceed those of the average
lawyer, doctor or trader.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1911-09-28
September Garden
and Orchard Notes.
BY Leroy Cady, Minnesota
University Farm.

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Currants and gooseberries may be
pruned this month. Take out all dis
eased wood; and, if the new shoots
are too crowded, remove part Of them.
Cuttings of this years growth of
currant wood may be made. These
should be about eight inches long, and
be set firmly in rich, sandy loan.
Leave but one or two of the top buds
out. When the ground freezes, cover
with earth or mulch. They should
form some roots this fall ready for
rapid growth next spring. Cultivate
thoroughly next season, and they will
be ready to set permanently next fall.
Take up some of the geraniums and
other Towering plants in the garden,
before frost strikes them Pots, or
even boxes, make good receptacles in
which to place them.
A pot or box of parsley, growing in
kitchen window, is both useful and
ornamental
Wealthy apples, carefully picked
when ripe, and wrapped in paper and
we'll into the winter
For exhibition at the fairs, apples
should be picked when ripe, as care
fully as possible, and wrapped in soft
paper, and not allowed to become
bruised or injured in any way.
This season has demonstrated that,
if one is to find a market for fruit
when there is an abundance, it must
| be carefully picked and graded and
put on the market in neat packages.
Show something in the fruit or veg
etable line at your county or neigh
borhood fair. You will find it not only
helps the exhibition, but broadens you.
The hardy Hydrangea and Clematis
! Peneculata are at their best now.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1911-09-28
Losses Frcn Lack
Of Corporation.
BY G. r. Barns, Minnesota Uni
versity farm.

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The Fairmont Sentinel tells of fine
Pail apples, in large quantities, left to
rot on the ground or being fed to
hogs, in Martin county; there being
no market for them there. Similar
reports come from other counties i'll
Southern Minnesota. At the same
time, the people in the Twin Cities
and other centers of population have
been paying high prices, by the peck
or bushel, for apples presumably no
better. It is fact, also, that in such
centers thousands of additional bar
rels of apples would be bought could
they be had at prices, which-though
low in comparison with those de-
manded by retailers-would, under
better methods of shipment and dis
tribution, yield the Minnesota orchard
ist a fair profit. That apples from
Michigan, and even from the Pacific
states, are sold in the Twin Cities in,
large quantities, proves that when
good Minnesota apples are allowed to
go to waste, with market so near,
the cause must be looked for in lack
of cooperation among growers in
shipping and disposing of their prod
ucts. City consumers, too-who could,
if they would likewise organize, Sc
cure all sorts of fruit direct at low
prices, by cooperating with home
growers-have only their own lack of
"gumption". to blame for the prices
which now swell to such intolerable
figures through a system which sup
ports dozens of middlemen, where,
with cooperation, it need support
scarcely one.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1911-09-28
BUSINESS vs.. GUESSWORK.
Unless Farmer Knows His Cows He
is Not a Dairyman.

A bulletin issued by the New York
Experiment Station, after giving three.
year records of several cows, showing
a wide difference in the amount of
milk given-a pure blood" proving to
be the poorest cow and grade" the
best one-concludes with the pithy re-
mark: Until the feeder knows his
cows, through the scales and the Bah
cock test, he can never claim to be
doing dairy business he is mere
ly doing dairy guesswork' and may be
feeding into Polly all the profit he
should make from Bess and Spot"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1911-09-28
CURING SEED CORN.
BY o. M. Olson, Extension Di-
vision, Minnesota University
Farm.
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Curing seed corn is a simple and
easy matter and yet many good ear
CT seed corn will be saved this fall
that will be practically worthless at
planting time next year. It's failure
can largely be attributed to the neg
lect of few important details in cur
ing the corn after it has been gath
cred. Freshly gathered corn contains
quite an amount of moisture and it is
of prime Importance that this be re-
moved, not too quickly as with arti-
fetal heat, but in reasonable time.
To do this some may adopt one
method and others another method,
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1911-09-28

Good seed gospel is not out
of place in the springtime, but
now is the time to put it into
practice. We now have the
whole crop to grade from, but
we will not have it next March.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1911-09-28
Cooperative Mar
keting Of Live Stock.
BY L. e. Potter, Farmers Insti-
tute Lecturer, Springfield,
MINI,

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Most communities have their stock
buyer, and whenever this buyer is
honest, and gives the producer good
market and square deal, the pro-
Queer can we'll afford to let the buyer
do the business for him.
But we have found a number of
cases where the local buyer does not
use good business methods. He may
have as many prices as he has GUS
toners, or he may not buy the stock
on it's merits Other buyers have a
way of saving the shrink before they
ship. Often the producer is paid for
his stock according to his ability to
make sharp deal and look out for
number one," while the man whom
the buyer guesses to be uniformed as
to stock market, and values, takes
what he can get
Here at Springfield we have been
shipping our own stock for five or six
years and as rule it has been salts
factory. Still there are those who are
dissatisfied with our way of doing
business because they cannot work
the buyer and get more than their
stuff is worth, and let the buyer make
it up on the next fellow.
The stock is handled by the Farm
ers' Elevator company, and their buy
er has fee of S. per car for his work
We aim to buy on 5O-cent margin on
st. Paul, and to pay for stock accord
ing to grade, giving fair weight This
price is paid with the understanding
that if the market raises; or the net
returns permit each stakeholder (also
any poor man or renter unable to be
stockholder) will receive an addi-
tional check for the balance due him on
his cattle or hogs. For example:
One Load of Seventy-three Hogs,
Weight, 1880 Pounds.
Cost. =. 81, 046.55 Hogs sold. 81, 0SS. 40
Corn -. APO Total cost. 1,05575
Work -. 500 -
Doll A
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1911-09-28

Total .$l,055.75
This balance brings nearly 20 cents
per hundred on the whole load He
figured 20 cents on the even hundred
pounds, which amounted to $3.50,
figuring six hogs weighing LAS
pounds) that were not included De-
Quoting the $3.50 from the $32.64 left
balance of 1914.
This method of handling the hogs
gives to every man all his produce is
worth to any shipper, with a chance
to get the benefit of raise in price.
If the load pay out 10 to 10 cents per
hundred pounds, each man gets his
rebate" as they call it; but if load
pays out less than 10 cents, what
there is goes into the reserve fund
In case of loss, it is paid out of this
reserve fund.
One advantage of this method over
the one where the buyer ships and
pays out the net returns at what they
will allow per hundred, is that here
the farmer knows what he is getting
before he loads his hogs, as he can
get the market over the telephone.
We have certain days for shipping,
and do not aim to keep stock in the
yards over night. We pay the price
of the day we receive the stock.
One of the best proofs of our sue
cess is that the buyers in the nearby
towns have it in for us. This way of
marketing live stock has made a
profit of from $1,000 to $4,000 yearly,
with fair treatment assured. We
handled nearly 100000 worth of live
stock last year.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1911-09-28

Kill the weeds before they
go to seed. A small, neglected
fence corner can produce weed
seed enough to ruin the crop
on ten-acre field. Now is the
time.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-06-21
TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY
OF THEIR GRADUATION
Observed by Academy Class of 1891 al
Norwich Club.

Fifteen members of the class of 1891
of the Norwich Free Academy gather
ed at the Norwich club Tuesday even
ing to observe the goth anniversary of
their graduation. Dinner was served
at 7.30, the menu being as follows:
Fruit Cocktail
Claim Boullion Waters
Boiled Salmon Peas
Rad1shes owes
Roast Turkey
Mashed Potato Turnip
Tomato Salad Mayonnaisee
French Cream Fancy Cake
Coffee
DR.. G. Percival Bard. president of
the class presided at the after dinner
exercises. and informal remarks by
Frederic H. Cranston, Albert G. Brew
ster Julian j. Bishop. Edwin P. Clark
and James l.. Case were heard with
interest, after which an enjoyable hour
was spent with "reminiscences and an
ecdotes Letters of regret were read
from many who We're unable to De
present. At the close it was voted to
adjourned until 1O6 when the 25th an
niversary of the class will be observed.
The affair was planned by the presl-
dent. Dr. Bard, Frederic H. Cranston
and James L. Case.
Among those present were Dr. and
Mrs. G. Pereival Bard. Stafford
Springs: Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Brew
ster. Jewett City; Mr.. and Mrs James
L. Case. Mr.. and Mrs. Frederic Grams
ton Mrs. NJ. NJ. Wilson, Montreal;
Julian Bishop. New London. Miss Isa-
bella S. Hill. Edward P. Clarke.
There has been but on death in the
class in the twenty years, that being
Nellie Claire Carroll.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-06-21
School Expenses For Next Year
Apportonment Made by Joint Board Of Selectmen and
Town School Visitors Total is s5s1S1 or $4,000
Less Than Last Year. &

For the purpose of making the ap-
portionments for the schools of the
town for the ensuing year. so that the
selectmen will know what will be re-
CURED. there was a meeting of elre
board of selectmen and the town board
of school visitors in the selectmen's
Office ON Tuesday evening with Select
men Lillibridge and Beckwith and Act.
ing School Visitor Foss and Messrs.
Crooks, Lee, Young. Briggs and Cong
don of the town school board present.
Selectman Lillibridge presided and
there appeared before the board F. II.
Topliff of Oecum, who explained that
$500 more than the appropriation in
that district had been spent in the
past year because an extra teacher
was required and authorized by tht
school visitors. 1t was voted that tine
amount was necessary.
This year the school districts Ill
sending in their statements of amounts
required from the town Cor the ensu-
ing year were required ID itemize the
estimates, and as the result of that
it is believed the total amount which
will have to be paid has been reduced
$4,000 from last year. The list of esti-
mates show precisely for what the
money is needed.
The following are the amounts which
were apportioned for the several dis
tricts. subject to change in the fall II
reasons for changes appear and the
amounts which were voted in 1910:
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-06-21
ELECTION EXPENSES
ARE ALL FILED.
Returns Made to Town Clerk for the
Last Contest.

Tuesday was the last day for filing
the election expenses by the treaSurerS
of committees. The following. which
make up the entire number, were re-
ceiyed Tuesday.
E. A. Smith, treasurer of the prohi-
bition party, reported he had received
s15.75. and spent it as follows: Caucus
rs cents. circulars 81, literature So,
postage "a, work at polls Sc. The re-
ceipts We're: Mrs. Mary. r. Osgood
s10.T5, A. B. Nickerson So, F. L. Ar
mold 81, s. Howard Mead 81.
Charles E. Whitaker, republican
treasurer of the Second district. re-
ports receiving SIS from Treasurer L.
r. Church and spent it as follows:
Auto $40, teams S19, explaining voting
methods $3.50. clerks $3.50. cigars So,
meals $3.50. rent IS, fares $3.50, car
tickets So.
: Republican Treasurer C. w. Pearson
of the Third district reported the re-
ceipt of $50. which he spent thus;
Teams $40. car. tickets $12, assistants
$50, services IS.
Treasurer L. r. Church of the repub-
1ican town committee reported the re-
ceipts for election as follows: Balance
S33.54, C. L. Hopkins $50. n. J. Ayling
SIS. John Donovan. s22. Tyler Crutten-
den s.. John D. Hall 500, H. w. Tib-
bits SO. George w. Rouse SO, Costello
Lippit SO. Charles Bard So. c. s. HoI-
brook. SO, Frank FOSS $40, Frank ii
Smith $40. Charles D. Moves SIS, A. G
Crowell SIS, J. H. Barnes SIS, A. l.
Brown SIS. Grosvenor Ely $40, Louis
Geer So, A. s. Comstock S., total
$310.54
: The expenses We're: Second district
SIS, Third district $50, Sixth district
$40, printing ss.73. rent 5000, teams
SIS. auto $40, CIGARS 81, erecting booths
SO, checkers IS, transportation $40. caI
tickets SIS. canvassing s24, checking
IS. postage s12, transfer book 81, total
S35163
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-06-21
CLOSING DAY EXERCISES
Will Be Held by Polish School in Tn.
ion Hall.

The closing day exercises of the
Polish school will be held Thursday
evening, June %. at I o'clock at Union
hail. where the children will show their
ability. The march begins at $50 from
the school to the hill The programme
to be carried out there is as follows:
Part 1.-Grandmother's Drill prima-
ry room. conducted by Miss Morris;
Polish recitation, bw primary room
Polish recitation, rooom 2; Polish
song, school; four hands piano selec-
ton, by Leo NJ. Makowslxi. teacher.
and Joseph PodugieI, pupil; Polish rec
itation, rooom q Polish song, girls of
room 2; Polish song. school: Polish
recitation, room 2 hoop drill. girls of
room 3. Il
Part 2-Song. room 2; Polish seIec-
ton. G. Zewadzta of room 3: flag
drill, boys of rooms , and 3; Polish
recitation, room 2.
At last will be given a two act play,
The Little Horsewhip of General t.
Kosciuszko. who organized the Polish
people for a battle against Russia ano
fought for independence in March,
1894. A certain hcrsewhip maker OF
Warsaw wished. to fight, and left his
wife and two children, a boy and a
girl. home and the boy started the
work in his fathers place. After a
time a boy of good standing parents
came in and ordered a little horse
whip. which he refused to take be-
cause the work hoy had dirty hands.
The poor boys mother became sick
and they had no money to buy medi-
cine, and in this moment he heard a
noise on the streets, and cheers. He
went out with the whip and saw Kos
ciuszko who had just returned with
all the army. The boy begged him to
t. Ike the whip. The general bought it
and urged all the people to leave or
ders. The boys father came back.
too,and had far more work than ever
before.
The children for. the play We're train
ed by Leo M. Makowski, teacher of
the. primary rom. Thirty boys of this
room will in Polish national uniforms,
and between the acts they will drill,
and sing. These boys are also trained
by the teacehr. Pictures viii be TAX
en- of them. The play is very interest
ing and every number of the pro-
9ramme will be excellent.
The children for the play are: J.
l<rzesicki, b. Droojakowska, l.. Ma
kowskiP, p. Rakowska, ]. Szbicki. st.
Niedzwieski, w. Kwiatkowski, all OF
room 8.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-06-21
DIRECTOR CASEY GOING.
Will Attend c. T. A. U. Field Day at
New Britain.

At the regular meeting of st. Mary )
T. A. and B. society on Tuesday even
ing at the t. A. B. building, Pres1-
dent William H. Ms.Guinness called the
members together shortly after
o'clock. A report from James j. casey
was made on the arrangements for the
county field day at the drawbfidge on
July is. which promises a most enjoy
able day for the societies. The mem
bers were reminded of the state helG
day to be held at New Britain on Sat
urday next County Director James j.
Casey, with probably one or two others
of the ST. Mary's society is, expected
to attend Mr.. Casey being one of the
aides who will be in the mounted d1-
vision during the parade.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-06-21
FUN ERAE.
John Craney.

Tuesday morning the funeral of
John Craney was held from his late
home on Otis street. and relatives and
friends were present, including many
from Providence and other places
Rev Hugh Treanor celebrated the re-
Guienn mass in st. Patrfck's church
and Rev. P. J. Mccormick was deason
and Rev. William F. Cavanugh sub
deacon Miss A Greeley sang solo,
and Nearer My God to Thee, was rem
dered by Miss Catherine Kirby. There
We're, choice floral forms.
The bearers were Felix and William
H. Callahan, NJ. Conway, Christopher
Barry, Felix Conlon and Charles A.
Smith. Burial was in St. Mary's Gem
etery. NJ Hourigan had charge of the
arrangements.