The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-03-29

grain. spread it upon white piece
of paper and you can soon see what
poor seed you generally use for seed.
ing purposes,
Mr.. Wilson exhibited chart com.
pairing the heavy and light seed and
| also the large and small seed.
| There are only two ways in which
grain is selected and cleaned through
a tanning mill, one by weight and
the other by size of the kernels.
| Mr.. Wilson described the exact
process the grain went through in
being cleaned from chaff by the fan
ming mill A good man and boy
should be able to clean at least
twenty-five bushels Of grain an hour
with a good mill.
at is possible to save 100 bushels
| of wheat a day by cleaning 1900
bushels of wheat in five days and
that is bigger earning than that
of the governor" he said
Instead of tanning mill on every
tanning plant or you should have
some one to go around the county
for the ordinary person seldom knows
! how to run the tanning MILL"
Mr.. Wilson presented the Hub
bard Milling company bouquets for
their move when they installed their
special tanning mill in which they
clean seed for nothing on condition
that the farmers use it for seed
again next year. He thought it ad-
visable for some person to secure a
$50 gasoline engine, put it on a
wagon together with two tanning
mills, and make the rounds of the
farms. for he could also market it
at profitable business and he would
prove of as great a benefit to the
community as a good buttermaker or
COW tester.
Smut in the Wheat.
Most common smut of wheat is
causing anywhere from one to fif-
teen per cent of decrease in wheat.
Smut is plant in itself and grows
right inside of grain and when grain
produces a head it produces smut
ball instead. However, there are
smut solutions which can treat this
successfully"
Mr.. Wilson told of the methods OF
eliminating smut at the state expert
ment season. 1t paid to heat grain
r1't of ,x,i{h
for it does not cost more than from
one to two cents a bushel There
were two kinds of smut which could
be successfully treated by the hot
water system.
- Mr. Scribner then gave some of
his experiments with corn testing.
He stated that grading corn was
somewhat easier than grading wheat
and brought wonderful results.
Patrick Henrietty told Of his
method of grading corn. He select
ed his seed corn before it was ready
to cut from the stalk for then he
could tell from what kind of stalks
it grew. - d. --.. 49,
Mr.. Wilson stated that Blue Earth
county was one of the best wheat
growing counties in the state and
thought that it was too bad for this
county not to exhibit at some of the
shows. The results of exhibiting at
the shows were far reaching.
!. Industrial Grain Growing.
"ln about forty counties in the
state the county superintendent
and county boards have taken up
the matter of industrial grain grow
ing. among the school children under
eighteen years of age and usually
the boy were far ahead of the men
in their exhibits said Mr.. Wilson.
III telling of what is being done by
boys in up-to-date farming.
"This year the state is putting
up proposition to appropriate $500
to the boys under eighteen years of
age who can raise the largest yields
per acre. Seventy per cent is cred
tied toward the yield and thirty per
cent On the written report as we
don't want boy to spend 500 on a
$40 crop of corn. They must do
all the work themselves except the
blowing and keep an account of it.
So far, about 100 boys have sent in
their names as candidates in this
contest. ..- >,
MIR. Wilson spoke for some time
on barley also and gave the farmers
some helpful hints on barley grow.
ing. He compared the income of
raising corn and oats and heartily
favored the growing of corn in pref.
erence to oats as the feeding value
was entirely in favor of the corn.
Minnesota, he said was q corn state
to. some extent for corn was one of
the best crops in the state.
We are cropping 100000 acres
of land i'm Minnesota and out of this
acreage 12,O0O,OOO acres lie fallow
for many months in the year." ]
During the open discussion that
followed the growing of rope in
grain and in corn fields was taken
up.
: Honorable Joel j. Winkjer. state
dairy aud food commissioner, then
occupied the attention for some time
DR.. Wood stated introducing Mr..
Joel G.. Winkjer, that the state
creamery at Albert Lea wac tho only,