The Mankato free press., 1913-03-07

something for sinking fund. Then
J last fall they organized cooperative
!. laundry association. They have an
= other help. They charge for laundry
. by the pound, five cents a pound.
= They allowed the people of the town
4 to make use of the laundry at little
= higher rate to pay for delivery. The
{. patronage has increased each week
= and last week there were 100 farm.
q ers who sent laundry to that COM
8 pany. / am sure that the women
9 here realize what such a laundry
!. would mean to them.
e IAN individual is two things, he
:. has personal interests and social in
: terests. The social side is just as
!. big as the personal side, but it will
: mot be developed unless we meet
:: wl,h other people, A man should
: reach the stage of development where
: he enjoys the things that the com
= munity enjoys, and the things that
= harm the community harm him also.
= This is our community self. There
" isn't any greater economic waste in
= a community than the waste OF good
: will"
Rivalry Between Creameries.
y Some one brought up the question
+ of the rivalry between the creamer1es
y and the centralizing cream companies,
= which those present agreed was
+ serious question to the cooperative
+ companies. Professor Thompson said
4 that the cooperative companies could
+ create a market for their butter
j. which tests higher than other butter
I. in spite of the Capitalization COM
+ panies.
+ Discussion Yesterday Afternoon.
+ Professor Davis OF the agricultural
I. department of the ST. Peter high
+ school was called upon to speak. lie
+ said: II am simply going to try
+ TO tell you some of the things that
+ the corn club at st. Peter is trying
+ to do. There is always going to be
j. q demand for good seeds and every
1. one of you men will be able to sell
+ all pure seed you can raise. More
+ attention should be given to barley.
j. wheat and the other small grains
+ in the matter Of pure seed as we'll
+ as in corn.
+ 'Tt is always nice TO have some.
!! thing that everyone is after. That
+ is the case when you have pure bred
= seed corn Blue Earth county is
T. way ahead OF Nicollet and lie Sueur
counties in corn breeding, that l ad
a. nit ii you grow corn you should
ny not grow it for the market, but to
IN feed il on the farm. Silver King is
.s one good variety 10 tie up to. Min
- ,ncsota IL is good corn. but does
not have a large enough ear for
y, southern Minnesota. 1t is all right
20 for northern Minnesota. Reeds yel-
w. low dent is fine corn where it can
- be grown, but don't try to grow it
:, too far north. We can't mature toe
h big an ear here.
~ ~ "It is essential to have one type
nc Of corn, and one type should be used
~ in a neighborbood, juts as in cattle
Here there are about a dozen mon
:. grel breeds in each township. The
&c breeding has everything to do with
r. its maturing.
at st. Peter this year | will have
forty men who will have corn breed
:, ing plots. Your breeding plot ought
81 to be at least 40 rods from other
: fields, because the pollin is carried
by winds"
q, Professor Army of the state agri'
-. cultural college talked on THE Era
ro dication of Quack Grass" Previous
to 1909 when | took up this work
,o some work had been done. The tar
90 80 paper and salt method were tried
" - and sulphuric acid had also been
;s tried, but all of these methods were
impractical for large plots. In 1908
we rented a plot at Monticello GOV.
-. cred with the quack grass and we
II, went at it with the idea of raising
J, crop each year and still eradicat.
~ ing the grass. We aimed to use a
~ five year rotation as follows: grain
~, hay, hay, corn, grain. With the
), hay crop we get one crop and then
y. from July We disc and plow when
-, necessary to keep the grass down.
- You can run your farm on rotation
;s and not rid it of Quackgrass unless
you work the ground more thoroughly
- than is usual.
~ "The five year rotation is not as
ro effective as a three year rotation
-, like this: Grain with clover and
w. y, timothy. hay and corn. This is more
=, effective because we get to the clean
- ing up time oftener
- "The most practical one though is
~ the four year rotation. The rotation
- by years is first year, grain with
~ timothy and clover, hay and in mid
- - die of July plant corn, then the nexi
a. year we put corn in again.
70 "We do not believe in using any
~ y special machinery for the eradication
of quackgrass; we use only such ma
ot chinery as you use on any farm"
~ Barley.
ii Six Row Type: A. d. Van Sickle
=, Warren, first; Mike Sitter, Cokato
:" second; Henry Holt Cokato, third
., Paul Burtzloff, saltwater, fourth; NJ
- ID. Hahn, Amiret, fifth; Mat Schlitz
, Caledonia, sixth; G. Fl. Murphy, Gale.
donia, seventh; c. e. Decker, Maple.
- ;" ton, eighth; NJ. Schumacher and SON.
= Plainview, ninth.
). Two Row Type-John Henderson
- Cokato, first; A. D. Van Sickle, War.
M rem, second; Frank Sitter, Cokato
nv third
co Hulies Type-Frank Sitter, Cokato
~ first: Mike Sitter. Cokato second
49, Paul Burtzloff, Saltwater, third.
~ Barley Sweepstakes-John Hender.
= son, Cokato.