The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1920-12-16
Articles of Interest to the Farmer
Edited by W. Hunmer, County Agent Meloss Minnesota
$4,000 tons; cotton, $4,000 bales,
peaches, 100000 bushels; apples 49,
0OO, 900 bushels.

$4,000 tons; cotton, $4,000 bales,
peaches, 100000 bushels; apples 49,
100000 bushels.
Let's get behind every movement
to see that control measures are ap-
piled right off the bat every time any
of the plant diseases which attack
Minnesota crops appear within the
borders Of the state. Let's do it.
The season for opening the silo
and beginning with the silage feed
ing, is at hand. There is always a
layer of half a foot or little more
of badly nodded and spoiled silage
on the top that had better be taken
to the manure pile or put some
where out Of reach of the stock, as
this spoiled silage might cause some
trouble. This is especially true IN
feeding the silage to horses. Only
good, sound silage should ever be
fed to horses and then only in limit
ed quantities. A little nodded sill
age is not likely to prove harmful to
cattle. Silage feeds best to cattle
or sheep when fed in bunk or man.
ger in the barn or in a protected
shed. Where grain is being fed, it
can we'll be spread over the silage
after the silage has been placed in
feed bunks.-W. H. Peters, acting
chief, division of animal husbandry,
University Farm.
Too many poultrymen rely almost
wholly on grain feeds during the
winter. Green food, beef scraps. milk
by products and mineral matter are
too often omitted altogether or fed
too infrequently and sparingly. Oy-
ster shell, prepared grit and char
coal, ready for the fowls at all
times provide mineral matter. Cab
bage, beets, mangles and sprouted
oats make excellent green feeds;
hung and inch higher than the head
compels needed winter exercise. Any
fresh vegetables, even raw pota-
toes, are whole lot better than
nothing of the kind at all.
For animal food, beef scraps serve
the purpose splendidly. Milk by
products, when low priced, are used
with excellent results and probably
with greater returns, comparative
ly, than when fed to farm animals.
The more the birds eat, the more
they lay, if the rations are properly
compounded and fed skillfully. Get
feeding formulas from the poultry
husbandry division, University
Farm, st. Paul.
Good winter production means un-
questioned success. Now is the time
to house Comfortably and feed skill
fully.-A. C. Smith, chief of poul-
try division, University Farm.
Minnesota is coming to the front
as an apple state. Horticulturists at
University Farm were thrilled this
week when word was brought back
that Minnesota grown Jonathan ap-
pies had won all the first and second
prizes. as we'll as the sweepstakes on
fruit of that kind shown at the Mid
west Horticultural exposition at
Council Bluffs, Iowa.
The Jonathans were grown in the
orchards of D. G. Webster of La
Crescent, Mimi, and were in compe-
tition at Council Bluffs with Jona-
thans of Missouri, Arkansas and
southern Iowa. Before the show it
seemed to have been taken for grant
ed that Missouri would carry away
the banner on Jonathans, with
southern Iowa and Arkansas as the
runners up in the competition.
Mr.. Webster has an orchard of
more than 200 trees of Jonathans
alone. Other Minnesota growers are
following his lead he SAYS, with what