The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-03-01
Minnesota Adds Yearly to Straw

Minnesota Adds Yearly to Straw
berry Acreage-While the strawberry
acreage decreased 16 per cent in the
United States as a whole during the
last census decade, the Minnesota
acreage in this luscious berry in
creased AZ per cent during the same
ten years. Only two states in the
union surpassed Minnesota's increase
Nearly every section of the North
Star state is adopted to strawberry
cultivation.
Planning a new bed this season :?
If so, plant as early as the last week
in April or the first week in May.
Early May planting is the latest time
in which one may expect to get max
imum> results, says Franc P. Daniels
of the division of horticulture, Uni
versity Farm. Plant preferable IN
April is possible.
Always plant in the spring, rather
than in the fall, is general rule laid
down by Mr.. Daniels. If it is to do
its best the plant must have rich and
mellow soil of good depth. In COM
mercial paintings the rows should be
three to five feet apart, and the
plants 10 to "a inches apart in the
rows. Always there should be room
between the mated rows for the free
use of the cultivator. Never allow
the roots of the new stock to become
dry. Cultivate early and often after
planting.
The commercial grower has found
by experience, says Mr.. Daniels, that
only two profitable crops can be pro-
duced from single planting. In re-
newing for the second year, insects
and diseases of the plant foliage
must be wiped out and the ground
loosened The first can be done by
moving the tops and burning on
some breezy day when they are well
dried. Otherwise they will have to
be raked up and carried away, with
danger that many of the pests will be
left on the ground. The rows should
be cut down when the soil is being
loosened to width of about ten inch
.eS.
at will be sad looking place when
you get through says Mr.. Daniels,
tbut in week of good weather there
will come a revelation. Long before
heavy frost the plants will present
good stand for the second years
crop"
Good Demand Predicted fer Farm
Work HOrses-Animal husbandry men
of the University forecast good de-
mand for sound young horses on the
farms the approaching spring. .
'There is no surplus of horses in
Minnesota" says w. H. Peters
chief of the animal husbandry division
at University Farm. Farmers who
will put their good young horses in
sale condition for the spring trade
should have no trouble in disposing
of them. This farm demand will soon
be asserting itself.
"Horse owners who will be most
successful in selling surplus stock at
a good price will be those who do a
little extra work and use little ex-
ira feed to get their sale horses in
saleable condition and then do just a
little local advertising in the hope of
catching the attention of some neigh
Dor who needs an additional team or
two this spring. When a farmer
starts out to buy horse in the.
spring, intending to put him right to
work, he wants one that is moderately
fat and appear healthy, wide awake
and active in disposition, smooth ana
glossy in his coat, sound in limb and
showing well developed foot.
"The only way to get them fat and
to show sufficient life and good
glossy coat is by first feeding them
literally and then by an occasional
z grooming. Their feet should be
trimmed properly. If the feet have
been worn down short, it will pay to
have them shod. A set of shoes on
a horse, particularly on his front
feet, often makes him sell for $15 to
$25 more than he would sell for with
out Shoes
:. Farm School Students Find Use
for Principles advocated by
M. Coue of France are being utilized
by the School of Agriculture at Uni
versity Farm as means of correct
ing common errors of speech. Be-
lieving that frequent repetition of the
correct form fixes the habit of good
speech permanently in the mind,
Principal D. D. Wayne of the schoo,
presented the plan to the students at
their regular assembly and advised
them 'severy day in every way ala M.
Coue" to repeat aloud 20 times each
different sentence in which errors are
often made.
This was a feature of 'better Eng
fish Week" for 1923 in the school.
Tags bearing the pledge, "This week
/ will make special effort to fix the
habit Of good, clear English speech
onA will I'LL -
speech as | can," were distributed
among the bows and girls.
Following the practice inculcated bv
Coue, some students of the school have
provided themselves with strings hav-'
ing 20 knots on which they toll off the