The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1924-08-07
BLUE VALLEY FARM SERVICE
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BLUE VALLEY FARM SERVICE
By NJ. A. Nye.
Paul Kruger, who lives one mile
east of Sank Centre, is a pioneer
Grimm Alfalfa grower of Sank Gen.
tire.
Eight years ago Mr.. Kruger de-
cided to try some Alfalfa and that
Grimm was the best variety to have.
He sent to Nils Skinneanon of Wen
dell, Mimi, for enough seed to sow
two acres. The seed was sown and
produced fine stand for Mr.. Krueg-
er. He has had Grimm Alfalfa on his
farm since this initial seeding.
Mr.. Kruger has six acres of old
seeding this year that he made four
teen loads from the first cutting. He
has some spring seeding this year
and next year will have a larger acre
age.
Mr.. Kruger has Blue Valley AL
falfa plot that is looking fine. It
was seeded early this spring with
barley as nurse crop.
The soil was tested before seeding
and proved to be slightly acid. Mari
was applied to the plot at the rate
of two ton per acre. A strip was
left unlimed for demonstration pur-
poses. Any difference in favor of
the lined portion should show up this
fall or probably better next year.
The stand on Mr.. Krueger's plot is
good. He inoculated the seed with
liquid pure culture Alfalfa inoculat-
or.
Mr.. Krueger's old seeding of AL
falfa produces exceptional fine stem
med, fine quality Alfalfa hay. The
stand is thick and the lants are close
together causing this finer quality in
the hay.
A. B. Bentfeld, who lives nine
miles north and west of Sank Cen
tire, is trying small acreage of AL
falfa this year.
The young plants are now from
eight to ten inches high. The seed
ing was put in late with oats.
Mr.. Bentfeld sowed the oats one
bushel per acre but he believes he
should have put in about three pecks.
He is going to cut the oats for hay
and not for grain as they were put
in so late.
A medium sized modern dairy barn
is found on the Bentfeld farm.
Mr.. Bentfeld believes in fall
freshening to get the most out of
a herd of cows and his cows will
start freshening from now on. He
says cows generally in his neighbor-
hood freshen in the fall.
Mr.. Bentfield had just finished
making hay. He reports old mead
ows and wild hay as light crop
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Welfare Conference at University
Farm-Social workers of the state
and nation will hold weeks confer
ence at the Minnesota College of Ag-
riculture, University Farm, St. Paul,
September 612, under the auspices
of the Minnesota State Conference
and Institute of Social Work.
lnaddition to general sessions at
which the larger problems of social
welfare workers will be discussed by
speakers of national reputation, there
will be sectional meetings on the
family, delinquents, neighbour Gods,
children, health, and similar subjects.
Another feature of great interest
to the visitors will be field trips by
automobile to social centers of differ
ent kinds in the two cities.
Special meetings provided for in
clude:
Minnesota committee on social leg
islation and section on family, joint
dinner, September 10.
Meetings of officials charged with
enforcement of laws relating to chill
dren, of state probation association,
of state council of agencies for the
blind, of the state committee on So
cial legislation, and of probate judg-
eS.
A conference frolic and dinner
September 8.
Visitors will find dormitory and
boarding Accommodations at Univer-
sity Farm.
The secretary will be glad to re-
ceive information from those plan
ming to attend Address: Mrs. Rob-
bins Gilman $50 Andrus Building,
Minneapolis.
u. Farm Has Issued Potato Cellar
Plan-In connection with the an
nouncement recently made by the
new Minnesota Potato Growers, Ex-
change, that all members of the ex-
change will be encouraged by means
of a bonus to store at least part of
their potato crops on their farms
comes the announcement of the engi-
neering division of the Minnesota Col
lege Of Agriculture that it has pre-
pared plans for the construction of
a farm potato cellar out of such ma
terial as the average farm itself pro-
duces.
The plan is for a storage cellar set
in the side of slope, with supports of
posts, walls Of boards, and roof of
pole-rafters, brush, straw, and earth ;
the whole, except a vestibule at the
front, to be covered with earth. A
: ventilation system is also provided
for.
While the plan as drawn calls for
a cellar IL feet by 80 feet, with a
storage capacity of SO bushels, the
plan is so made that larger cellar
may be constructed simply by adding
to the length.
M. x,Io, &c for dicfri h,1 ri on