The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1918-10-31

tOIaI OF oZ,1lo bushels OF all kinds OF
grain. We had paid to the farmers
$4,000 and had received $4,000 for
wheat shipped. Three car loads were
in transit and four carloads in the
house. We had shipped out 11,522
bushels of oats, 2,8O6 bushels of
barley and LAO bushels of rye; sixty
FIVE carloads were shipped up to Oct.
| LIST.
From the first day of opening our
new house on we handled from sixty
to one hundred wagon loads of grain
daily and there is still no let-up. Mr..
Seppe is still acting as our manager
and buyers and we hope to be able
to retain his services for the future.
! At times it has been necessary to
hire additional help as we are now
handling -four and feed the profit on
which pays a large part of the run
ming expenses.
The Farmers Elevator of Kimball is
on strictly cooperative basis. After
| paying fair rate of interest on
money invested the dividends are di-
vided pro-rata on the amount of bust
ness the shareholder has done wheth-
] er buying or selling. The following
are the officers of the Farmers Eleva-
tor Company at the present time: j.
J. Kunkel, president; Math Seppe,
manager and vice president; D. D.
Hull, secretary; M. G. Loesch, treasur-
err; directors, John Stein, Harry Wells
and Henry Maus.
| Any further information concerning
the organization or management of
this elevator will be gladly given.
1 j. j. Kunkel, president"
The Farm Bureau is interested in
the success of any cooperative pro-
ject of this kind and will be glad to
receive and will publish from time
to time reports on other cooperative
elevators in the county as well as re-
rorts on the business done by some
of our leading cooperative 'creameries
and stock shipping associations.
P. w. Huntemer,
| County Agent.
The following communication has
been received at the Farm Bureau Of
flee from F. B. Balmer, state county
agent leader: .. ......
The meager reports to date on the
amount of seed corn selected in the
leading corn growing section of the
state is sevidence that sufficient seed
corn has not as yet beeu gathered to
take care of the needs of Minnesota
for the next two years.
/ Already other states, short of seed
corn, are looking to Minnesota fol
next years supply. An authoritative
statement has just been received
from Michigan that there is prospect
for seed corn shortage in the north
ern part of the state again this year
The Crops Department of New York
state has stated that they expect tt
have to go outside of the state fol
seed corn next year. The Red River
| Valley of Minnesota, due to early
frosts, produced little corn suitable
for seed and indications are the same
with reference to at least the north
half of the state of North Dakota
Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, ano
southwestern Iowa experienced q
drought very damaging to the crop.
No section is in a better position to
| furnish extra seed needed than south.
ern and central Minnesota. There
| fore, we recommend that the atten.
ton of corn growers Of the state be
called to the importance of still gath
! ering more seed corn, first to be sure
to take care of the home needs fol-
two years, and then to supply neigh
boring states.
! Due to extraordinary busy season
with short labor it is evident tha'
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