The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-09-13
Stump. Will Fly; u. S. Gives New

Explosive-Uncle Sam mas elgnCeen
million pounds of sodatol, an explo-
sive equal in power to ordinary dyn-
amite and much cheaper in price,
which he will give outright to farm
ers for land clearing purposes. The
only cost to the farmers will be car.
tridging and freight. AS the haul is
short and an advantageous contract
has been made for cartridging, soda
tol will cost the farmer less than pic
ric acid.
The cost f. o. b. at Barksdale, Wis,
where sodatol is being placed in car
tridges, will be $5.07 per hundred
pounds when orders are given in car
load quantities. For filling local or
ders smaller than carloads the Uni
yersity of Minnesota will maintain
powedr magazines at st. Paul, Bemid-
ii and Virginia. The price will be
$7.15 per hundred pounds f. o. b.
from the nearest point of shipment
mentioned. Limited supplies of No. 6
blasting caps will be distributed free
of charge f. O. b. st. Paul at the rate
of 100 caps for 100 pounds of soda
tol.
All orders, whether for carload or
less, should be sent to the division of
agricultural engineering, University
Farm, St. Paul, and be accompanied
by check or draft made payable to
the University of Minnesota. Order
blanks can be obtained of county
agents and local bankers or by writ
ing directly to university Farm. The
first shipment from Barksdale will be
made about September Is.
Sodatol is 45 per cent TINT and 55
per cent nitrate of soda, and was pro-
duced for use in the world war. There
are 240 sticks in every 100 pounds.
Kill the Red Cedar and Save the
Apple-Apple rust cannot live with
out red cedar trees. The moral then
is to cut out all red cedars within a
mile of valuable orchards. The Veal
thy and many of the crab apples are.
particularly susceptible to rust.
The disease is caused by fungus
which lives on red cedars and apple
tees. In winter the fungus abides on
the cedars while waiting to spread mil
lions of spores in the spring to the
apple leaves and fruit. Under the at
tack the upper surface of the leaves
reveals small, sticky, honey-colored
spores. Later, orange-colored spots,
sometimes surrounded by red mar
gin, are produced on the lower sur
face. Trees badly infected become
partly defoliated and have a rusty
appearance. The fruit is dwarfted
and misshapen. Buds which form this
year are weakened and will make only
a poor crop next year.
The spots on the under surface of
the apple leaves are the cluster cups
of the rust and the spores of the
fungus produced in these cups are
blown to red cedars on which they
produce the socalled cedar gals or
cedar apples. This is game which
only two can play-the red cedar and
the apple; infection cannot be trans
mitted from one apple tree to an
other.
Several instances of losses from
rust in southern Minnesota orchards
have been reported to j. G. Leach
of University Farm, an authority or
fruit and vegetable diseases. DR.
Leach says that in Virginia ane
West Virginia, where many apples
are grown, the red cedar is being
Systematically eradicated by counties
No red cedar is left standing within
a mile of an apple orchard.
a.
Prizes Awarded in Junior Potat.
Show-Club boy potato growers o.
northern Minnesota captured nearl!
all the prizes hung up for boy ant
girl club members at the Minnesota
State Fair. The potatoes were dis
played in the boys and girls clul
building. Awards were made by thu
judges as follows:
Early Ohios-Teddy Carlson, Kit
fson county, first; Russell Youngren
Kittson county, second; Pearl Foley
Beltrami, third; Olaf Flaa, Lac gu
Parle, fourth; Alfred Della, Clear
water, fifth.
Green Mountain-Ernest Feather
stone, Itasca, first and also sweep
stakes; Arthur Beck, st. Louis, sec
ond; Manfred Bunger, Carlton, third
Edward Simpson, Carlton, fourth.
Irish Cobbler-Clarence Langeson
Todd, first; John P. Jones, second
Casper Spangrud, Kittson, third
Ernest Larsen, Koochiching, fourth
Rural Yorkers-Oliver johnson
Todd, first; Leo Powell, Wadena, sec
ond; Oliver Gilbertson, Todd, third
Renhold Pierson, Todd fourth.
Burbanks-Roy Grothberg, Koo
chiching, first; Florence Jacobson, 81
Louis, second.
Russets-Harry Miller, Beltram
first; Violet Foley, Beltrami, second
Kings-(one entry only Pat
Radaich, Jr., Itasca.
-
West Minnesota Boys Corn De
clared Best-Thomas Hoskins, Jr., o
North Redwood, won sweepstakes TO
the best ten ears in the corn shoN
staged for members of boys an