The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-04-19
DEPARTMENT FOR 7 HE ACRICULTURISTS

the West Central SchoCz at Morris.
A feature of this weeks program
at University farm was a district
contest between advanced bread
making teams, all expenses of which
were paid by the Russell Miller Mill
ing Co., of Minneapolis. Six teams
were entered. The Rush City trio
was first, the Buffalo trio a very
close second, and Anoka and Farm
ington tied for third place. The Rush
City team will represent the district
at the state contest at the State Fair
in September. The forenoon program
of work prepared for the girls was
the best ever presented at a Mime
sofa short course, according to T. A.
Erickson, the state leader. Experts
were called to give the girls instruc-
ton in care of hair and skin, in sell
Getting becoming colors, in choosing
food, and selecting and making clo-
thing.
Announcement was made during
the course that the Home Pattern
company which is an enterprise of
The Ladies Home Journal, had of
fered $3.50 to pay the expenses of the
winning team in both classes A and
B demonstrating garments made
from Home journal patterns to the
National Club Exposition at Chicago
the first week in December.
Hand Tools Needed for Brush.
Several different methods of brush
removal are used in the cutover dis
tricts. Fire and livestock are effec-
tive and inexpensive and can be
made to fit in with the regular farm
operations very nicely. Mechanical
means, however, are needed to re-
move the heavier growths economic
ally. When there are no stumps to
interfere, wholesale methods, such as
blowing the brush under with large
breaking plows or using specially
made brush mowers, are often used
to great advantages. But most, Sec
tons of strictly cutover districts
have stumps, wind falls and other
Instructions, and in all such the
brushing must be done with hand
tools.
Perhaps the two tools most COM
monty used for this purpose are the
double bitted ak and the brush scy-
the. The AK is used for the larger
growth. 1t should weigh about three
and three-fourth pounds and have a
wide blade. The scythe is about is
inches long and is made extra heavy.
This is perhaps the most effective
tool for small growth up to one inch
in diameter.
The brush hoe has been found to
do good work where the brush is not
70 hoc 70
in small clusters. AS the hoe has
large flat blade and an offset handle
it can be used to clip the clusters
close to background. The brush hook
is a tool not to be ignored. 1t is OPP
Grated by pulling action upward
and can be used in brush up to one
half to two inches in diameter. A
brush knife about % inches long,
which may be made by a blacksmith
from an old auto spring, is effective
for removing brush two inches or
more in diameter.
New Bulletin Shows Benefit. of
Drainage-Flax worth $4,000 taken
from what was a 50-acre pond a year
or so before;; big crops of corn, po-
tatoes and small grain gathered from
what were dank sloughs and marsh
pockets regular sores on the face of
nature; value of farms increased and
many more benefits of drainage are
specified in Special Bulletin No. CT
written by H. B. Roe, university
drainage engineer, and published by
of the University of Minnesota. The
author contends that it is better to
drain than to purchase new land,
that drainage lengthens the growing
season, improves and increases crops
on land already cultivated, prevents
heaving and winter killing, insures
straightens fields, lessons cost of
farm operations, and improves sani-
tary conditions. Types of land need
ing drainage are described in the
the Office of Publications, Univer-
sity Farm, st. Paul, to persons filing
bulletin which will be sent free by
requests.
H.
Gives Pointers to Producers of Beef