Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1917-11-02
THIS Is THE TIME TO GET SEED

Because many Aa.AAers anu garueA-
erS III 1MluuesvLa lvsL A4uAey, tAAae AMI
LABOR Oh Luelr Deans tAiUuSA planting
the WRONG klna o. SEED tu4o year, "A.
u. Army, ueau OI the section u farm
crops ~ the Mlnncsutf CApeiAmoAL
slaI4on, Is senulug Out woiu tnaL tu4s
is Ine time to get supp4les u navy
bean seeu Tor next Springs painting.
Last spring, says ma. Amy, navy
bean se.u Was scarce anu n1gn III
prlce. Consequently any sort o. Deans
We're painted. AS result numerous
reports, accompanied by Samples OF
beans, have been received, with H.
curry as to Why the beans do not
make a crop. In many instances, SEED
grown IN California Or some Otner west
ern state was planteu. lhe crop from
such seed could not mature because the
season is too short in Minnesota. In
other cases Burma lima beans were
planted, quantities Of such beans hav-
ing been shipped in from India. THESE
beans are wholly unsuited to north
western conditions.
Mr.. Arny's advice is to look about
now and obtain enough seed for next
year, giving preference to beans from
fields that produced goou mature beans
by September 10. ones own neigh
borhood should be searched for sup
plies, because there one may get beans
that have proved their fitness for To-
cal conditions.
Like advice holds for corn and for
other field crops.
HENS Pay BOY FOR STAYING On
Emil Peterson, d tarm boy of Nah
iowa in tho Barnum poultry demon
stration district unuer the general sup
ervision OF N. E. Chapman, poultry
specialist Of the extension division OF
the states college OF agriculture, in
the IL months ending with August
cleared $267.39 from half interest in
200 pullets. As a result he is satisfied
that he did not yield to temptation
to % to Duluth to find work last fall.
Emil was tempted to 60 to Duluth.
His father offered to share an interest
in 200 pullets with him if he would
STAY on the farm and care for them.
He accepted the offer. In the IL
months ending with, August, under
Emil's care, the hens laid total Of
27,764 eggs which sold for $807.53
The feed cost was $272:56. This left
$534.77 to be divided between the part
ners, or $267.39 each-$24.31 a month:
In addition Emil had his room and
board. "Could he have done so well,'
asks Mr.. Chapman, chad he gone to
the city and tackled such labor as he
would have been prepared for?"
SOUND SEED FOR NEXT YEARS
CROP
Sound, clean, healthy seed is the
first requisite for the billion bushel
wheat crop which the government
hopes to see harvested next year, say
the specialists at the Minnesota E'x-
pertinent station. a farmer who has
seed from his own crop should lose no
time in gettin~ it ready FOR storage
until the time Of planting comes
around. In preparing his seed for stor-
age, a tanning mill is the first demand,
as a means of removing weed seeds,
smut and shriveled grain. Treatment
for smut should follow. Treatment for
scab is less likely to yield satisfactory
results. but the tanning mill assists
materially. A farmer who depends on
outside sources for his seed should buy
-. -.-.--.-.-a-I~. e Pvo~tD1o ~ Cnn5
he may get seed adapted to local con-
ditions. As to varieties, farmer
should be guided by the experience Of
his ncighbors or bv the advice Of has
state experiment station.
after a supply Of sound, clean,
healthy seed has been made ready,
it should be stored where it will be
safe from mice, rats, and insects. :.
PHYSICIANS MAY BE PRosEcu1-
RD -
'sTn a recent letter from the director
Of the census at Washington we are
asked some very pointed questions re.
garding the reporting of births in Min.
nesota." says Mrs. Gerda G. Pierson,
direction Of the division of vital sta.
tistics Of the Minnesota State Board
of Health. "Minnesota was included
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