The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-06-14
DEPARTMENT FOR THE ACRlCULTURISTS

plots, diseases, and pests will be
given special attention, and short in
formal conferences held at several
points. Anyone interested in pota-
to growing is invited to join the tour.
~" Experiments With Wheat-Flax
Mixture
The growing of wheat and flax in
combination will be tested this year
on ten farms in Goodhue county in
southeastern Minnesota, on one in
Blue Earth county in the southern
part of the state, on two in the west
central counties of Renville and
Stevens, and on three in the Red riv-
err valley, in Wilkin, Clay, and Polk
counties. In addition, the combina-
ton crop will be tried out on peat
land in Marshall county.
The work is being financed by the
National Flax Improvement Com
mittee and is being done under the
direction of A. C.. Army of the Min
nesota Experiment Station, assisted
by the agricultural agents in the var
ious counties. Experiments conduct
ed at University Farm for several
seasons and farm practices followed
in Goodhue county, where wheat and
flax have been grown together with
much success for many years, have
resulted in some distinct advantages
in growing the two crops together in
stead of each alone. There are also
some disadvantages in growing the
combined crop.
This new experimental work is
started largely to determine what
the mixed crop will do in central and
western parts of the state where the
rainfall averages less and soil con-
ditions are different than at Univer-
sity Farm and in Goodhue county.
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The first annual sale under the
auspices of the Stearns County
Guernsey Breeders Association will
be held at Kimball on Saturday af-
ternoon, June 18th. The committee
in charge of this sale has passed on
forty high grade cows and ten pure
bred bulls, all of which are now
ready for service or will be by fall.
This offering of Guernsey grade
cows has been carefully selected by
the sales committee, consisting of C..
l.. Arnold of Watkins, DIR. Geo. E.
Sherwood of Kimball, j. j. Clinton
of Watkins, w. ]. Bullivant of Kim
ball and Walter Kruger, Paynesville.
These men are all breeders of pure
bred Guernsey cattle and are espec-
tally anxious to have nothing but
high class stock offered at their first
annual sale. In making up their
selections, they are taking nothing
but the best from several herds in
Stearns and Meeker counties. Every
animal entered in the sale will be
trberculin tested.
Central Minnesota dairy men who
wish to get started in pure bred
Guernsey cattle or build up herd of
high grade Guernseys, should not fail
to attend this sale. Among the bulls
offered is a grandson of Ladysmith's
Cherub and a son of five hundred
and fifty-nine pound A. R. COW.
Remember the date and place of
this sale: Kimball, Saturday after
noon, June 10th.
The R. E. Jones Company of Wa
basha, which has been selected by
the Minnesota Cooperative Wool
MARKETING Association as one of the
handling agencies for the 1923 wool
clip, sent out the following circular
under date of June 4th to county
agents of the state. Stearns County
/, sheep men who desire to pool their
wool can make consignments direct
to either the R. E. Jones Company
at Wabasha or to the National Wool
Warehouse Company at Pennington.
An advance of thirty-two cents a
pound is now being made by the R.
E. Jones Company of Wabasha,
without deducting freight.
"Dullness in the Eastern wool
markets appears to continue. There
I is more activity in the West than
/! there is in the East. Stocks in the
wooden mills are rapidly diminishing
but the mills claim 1t difficult tt
market their product on the basis Of
present western prices. Foreign mar
kets give evidence of strength il
wool. The little wool that has gone