The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1921-04-28


noon, April 10:
Committee at st. Anthony IS 81. 90
Committee at Richmond 500. $500
Committee at Eden Valley >. 14.75
Committee at Albany ....... 1925
Committee at Elrosa ...... Sc. so
Committee at New. Munich ;. SO. so
Committee at Metre Grove :. 1874. 90
Committee at Spring Hill :. 64.2O
Vincent Hylla, Holdingford. 63.45
J. J. Kunkel, Pearl Lake. -. A.75
August Anderson Belgrade. 100
Committee at st. Joe ....... 6O. %
Committee at Sank Centre >. 600
Donated by Greenwald Red
Cross Society ......-..... 1914
Collected by Charles Weber of
Cold SPRINGS 24.50
Donations direct to County
Chairman, Victor Woeste of
MelroSe ...... ..... "a. 90
Stearns county's gift corn will he
bought from the Farm Bureau OF
Mobiles county, Worthington.
MESSAGE TO COUNTY AGENTS
The American Farm Bureau Fed
Grafton is exactly what the individual
county farm bureaus make it. And
the county farm bureau, you will find
time and again, is just what the
county agent makes it. Show us a
weak, listless, ineffective farm bur
eau and we will show you behind it
weak, listless, ineffective county
agent-one of these harmless, meek,
milk and water fellows however le-
iterating that, "this is your bureau,
members, and | am your agent;
please tell me what to do so you will
continue to pay me my salary" My
point is that the county agent is set
in a positive position of leadership,
whether he will or not. He can no
more escape the responsibilities OF
leadership than can line officer in
the army. When the farmers find
that they are investing their money
in a hired man instead of leader,
they begin to regret that they pay
him a leaders, salary instead of a
hired mans wages.
JULIUS J. OTTE.
With mild weather making early
planting possible and the absence of
floods because of snowless conditions
assuring the cultivation of thousands
of acres in the bottoms of the Mime
sofa and other rivers, the first of the
1921 crop of small grains in Mime
sofa will go into the ground this week
under circumstances indicating one of
the best crops of years an agricultur-
al survey of the state, completed last
Saturday, indicated.
Not only will there be no reduc-
ton of the Minnesota crop acreage,
but extensive land clearing in north
ern Minnesota since last year is eX-
pected to add some thousands to the
arabic acreage of the state, practic-
ally all of which will be sown with
profitable crops.
In a few localities early planting
already has begun. Although a set
back was experienced because of the
snow a week ago, and advantage of
an early start will be had with soil
conditions nearly perfect, according
to reports gathered from every Sec
ton of the state. ,
In some sections of the state recent
rains and snow storms have caused
the low lying lands to be under water
but it is thought this condition will
not last and that these lands will be
devoted to later crops.
Professor Andrew Boss of the state
farm school and E. G. Selvig of the
Northwest Minnesota Farm School
at Crookston, join in the opinion that
the outlook for the 1921 crop is ex-
cellent. Present indications are, that
the wheat crop this year will be about
normal; increased acreage of oats,
barley, rye and corn. In Northern
and southern sections of the state
there will be an increase in the total
amount of clover planted, and lar
ger acreage of sugar beets than last
year, which usually are planted about
May Is, is indicated.
One particularly bright spot, from
the viewpoint of the farmer, is the
labor situation. All reports received
show that labor will be employed by
farmers this year at a reduction of
from 20 to 40 per cent from the cost