The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-04-26
DEPARTMENT FOR THE ACRlCULTURISTS

the course must pay registration
fee of So. For the full program and
further particulars write to DIR. A..
V. Storm, director of short courses,
University Farm, St. Paul, or to
Prof. Francis JAEGER at University
Farm.
a.
Deadly Turkey Disease is Traced
to Chickens-Recent research in
dictates that chickens and trukeys-
especially turkeys-will not thrive
when raised together within compare
lively close quarters and small field
range. 1t has been found that black
head, which is said by investigators
to be responsible for 80 per cent of
losses among growing turkeys, may
be produced in the poults by feeding
them the eggs of small worm found
in the blind gut of chickens. The
germ which causes blackhead may
and does live in the eggs of the COM
mon intestinal worm of hens.
Gwen turkeys sick with blackhead
are not so dangerous to their kind, I"
says DR.. w. A. Billings, of the Agri-
cultural extension staff, University
of Minnesota, Gas common hens or
the soil on which the hens are raised.
The turkeys should be Matched and
raised where they will not come in
contact with chickens or chicken
yards, for it is possible to produce
blackhead in chickens by simply feed
ing them contaminated soil from a
hen yard"
Damp weather and early morning
dews do not cause blackhead, accord
ing to investigators. This upsets a
theory long maintained by some poul-
trymen. In order to contract the dis
ease the turkeys must get the germ,
and the fact is established that they
often do get it by eating the eggs of
chicken intestinal worm. DR.. Bill
lings says the way to raise turkeys
successfully is to protect them from
infection which they get from chick
ems and chicken yards.
Certified Potato Seed Bringing
Nice Profits-Growers of certified
seed in Minnesota in 1922 are MAX
ing some money in spite of low mar
ket prices for potatoes generally.
Minnesota certified seed stock is in
strong demand and will be planted
this year in Long Island and Pennsyl-
vania on the east and in Florida and
New Mexico on the south. Ohio, In
diana, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska,
Iowa, Michigan, and many other
states are buyers of Minnesota seed.
Prices have ranged from 80 cents to
$3.50 per hundred weight.
According 70 A. G. Tolaas, of Uni
versity farm, state instructor, all
certified stock grown in the Red Riv-
er Valley was sold some time ago, the
supply failing to equal the demand.
These potatoes were mostly Early
Ohios and Coolers. The demand for
Green Mountain has not been so
great, because certified seed of this
variety has generally been supplied by
growers in northeast states. Howev-
or, Minnesota county agent reports
the sale of car of certified Green
Mountains to Pennsylvania to be
grown in competition with seed po-
tatoes from Maine, Vermont and
New York,
Increased acreages of potatoes
planned for certification are predict
ed this year by Mr.. Tolaas and all po-
tato men at University Farm. More
work are being received than ever be-
fore.
Late Gathered Seed Corn Under
Suspicion-Will your seed corn
grow? Better find out soon for
planting time is not far distant. Some
reports received at University Farm
indicate that corn reserved for seed
is not testing we'll. Corn that was
picked early and that was properly
stored is said to be strong and viz
lie, but som question has arisen as
to the quality of seed corn selected
at husking time, the latter part of
October or early November, after
frost has been followed by rain. Ker-
nels of corn injured by frost or i'm
proper curing show either no ger
mination or slow or weak growth of
the seedlings. The ears from which
they came should be discarded. Weak
or slow termination is as fatal as
entire failure to grow.
: Growers in doubt as to the quality