The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1922-07-06
ARTICLES OF INTEREST TO FARMERS
Edited by Huntmer County Agent Melrose Minnesota

However, his herd is always well
supplied with a good grade of corn
sileage and home grown heterogeneous
roughages consisting of alfalfa and
clover hays.
This herd is a very good example
of improvement in breeding high
class dairy stock which can be af
fected in few years by crossing of
common and grade cows with pure
bred sires and gradually adding to
the herd few pure bred females in
order to eventually build up a pure
bred herd. Mr.. offerings investment
of $1O73 in pure bred cattle which he
has bought in his herd a compare
lively small and the value of the i'm
provement in his present herd can
not be realized without visit to his
farm. Any farmers in Stearns coun-
ty interested in Brown Swiss cattle
can well afford making an inspection
of this herd.
P. w. Huntemer, County Agent.
r.
Farmers and business men of
Western Minnesota are invited to the
West Central School of Agriculture
at Morris on the morning of Wednes-
day., July 10Th to meet with the
Board of Regents of the University,
the editors of the leading agricultur-
al papers of the Middle West and the
University Experiment Station Staff
to inspect over 1000 experimental
plots, the herds and fiocks and the
equipment of the School. Represen-
tatives of the leading farm papers
including the Country Gentleman,
the Breeders Gazette of Chicago, rs
well as all of the agricultural papers
in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Ne
braska, and North and South Dakota
will be in the party. The inspection
at Morris is part of a tour of the
various. branches of the Department.
of Agriculture. 1t is expected that
Governor j. A. o. Preus will also
be a member of the party. Superin-
tendent P. E. Miller wishes to
make the visit to Morris an oppor-
tunity for the people of West Gem
trail Minnesota to meet the farm
press representatives and the Univer-
sity Staff. The experiment station
work will be reviewed and over 1000
plots inspected. A luncheon open to
the general public will be served at
noon for the visitors, provided lunch
con reservations are made before
July 10th. /,
One-PeriOd COldpack Method Rec
commended = The one-period coldpack
method for canning berries and soft
fruits is recommended by the agri-
cultural extension service of the uni
versity. The home demonstration
section at University Farm has pre-
pared the following directions for the
Herald.
The first step is to prepare hot
water bath. Any container may be
used such as wash boiler, lard can,
milk CHI, which has tight-ftting
cover and rack or false bottom at
least an inch high. Boil jars, caps,
and rubbers for Is minutes immedi-
ately before they are used.
Select only fresh, firm, sound pro-
ducts. After the berries or fruits
have been properly prepared, put in
strainer and rinse by pouring cold
water over them. Pack from strain
er into hot jars without crushing, US
ing a large spoon or ladle. Wipe
around top of jar with clean cloth,
then put on wet rubber. Fill jar
with hot strip previously prepared.
Screw mason jar cap on tight and
then reverse quarter OF a turn.
Fasten top spring only of a glass top
jar, leaving side spring loose. Com
plete entire process on one jar before
beginning on a second.
Place jars on false bottom in hot
water bath. Be sure that water
which should be hot is at least one
inch above tops of jars. Do not be-
gin to count required time until the
water boils. Water must boil all the
time during 16-minute period.
When the 16 m inutes are up, re-
move jars Immediately, examine rub
Der, and complete the seal by screw
ing cap tight or adjusting shoulder
spring. Invert to test for leak. La
bel and protect from light to prevent
fading.
1922 Favored Year For Canning
Fruits-Indication point to good
crop of fruit in Minnesota this year.
Rains have been timely and no dam
age by frost has been reported. W.
H. Alderman, chief of the division of
horticulture, University of Minneso-
ia, says that for most Of Minnesota
this has been the finest growing sea-
son for fruit known in five years,
Strawberries are generally good
crop, and the outlook for plums and
apples, when properly sprayed, is ex-
cellent.
The good yields should be an in
centive to the homemaker to can
large quantities of berries, also veg
etables in their season. Now is the
accepted time to can because next
year may witness shortage. If the
work is properly done, home canned
berries are just as good the second
year as the first.
Canning preserves food in a condi-
ton more nearly like that of the
freshly cooked products than is the