The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1924-08-14

ting. We always wait and see how
the seed pods are setting and filling,
before we decide whether to make
sed of the second crop or cut it for
hay" .-,.-.--...:-s..-
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Don't Be In a Hurry
Don't be in too big hurry to
pillow up Alfalfa the first year if it
doesn't look extra good. The second
year is the one that really tells the
story.
Grimm Alfalfa that is four to five
inches highlwill live through the first
winter and the second spring it is
there on the ground first to begin
growing. Last summers weeds have
died off
Alfalfa is quite often thicker than
it looks when examined the first year
in nurse crop or crop of weeds.
Seeds terminate unevenly and there
are many small plants that are hard
ly noticeable.
Grimm Alfalfa does not make as
rapid growth the first years as COM
mon. 1t has a characteristic of lying
dormant in spells throughout the
first season.
Dairy Short Course Dates Are
Fixed-The dates for the dairy
short courses given by the division
of dairy husbandry of the Minnesota
College of Agriculture the coming
fall and winter have been arranged,
according to w. B. Combs, profess
sor of dairy husbandry, who will be
in charge.
The dates are as follows:
Advanced ice cream makers, nine
days, November 1926.
Advanced creamery operators, De-
cember 1-13.
Creamery operators, six weeks,
January to February IL.
The facilities for these courses will
better than ever heretofore, be-
d huse the new dairy building at Uni
versity Farm will be available. In
this building have been arranged
special laboratories, with thorough
modern equipment, for instruction
in the manufacture and handling of
butter, cheese, ice cream, and market
milk. AS a result there has been
opportunity for complete reorgan-
ization of the short courses named.
Mr.. Combs announces that the
presence of men prominent in the
manufacturing of dairy products,
both within and without the state, is
expected to lend interest to the COM
ing courses.
Grasshoppers Are Expected to Re
-Grasshoppers, which have done
much damage to many farmers in
Chisago, Pine, Kanabec, Mile Laos,
Benton, Sherburne, Wright, and
Todd counties this summer, are ex-
pected by the insect men of the
Minnesota Experiment station staff
to return next year. If they do, and
means are not used to check them,
they may cause even more damage
than was done this year, and this
year many a farmer in the counties
named has lost his pasture, being re-
duced to feeding hay since June Is,
and some have lost as much as half
of their oats crop.
The thing the entomologists are
emphasizing in connection with the
possibilities of next year is the need
of getting reports of the first appear
ance of the pests, because it is while
the hoppers are young that they do
most damage. In counties having
county agents, there is some one on
the lookout, and reports can be OBJ
tanned, but in counties having no
agents, arrangements for reports are
not so easy to make.
1t will be necessary, in any event
to make ready for immediate war
fare on the pests if they appear next
spring, in order to prevent rayages
even worse than those of this year.
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New Pointer for Seed Corn Pick
eff YOU wish to keep your corn
in constant state of improvement,
the thing to do is to select for vigor
without close attention for score
card type.
THAT is the new word, based on
wears of careful study and expert
n,ent at the Minnesota Experiment
station. University Farm, st. Paul.
Exneriment station has carried on
activities designed to encourage the
selection of seed corn from the
standing stalks in the field before
frost time in the fall. The idea was
to get early maturing corn from vlg-
orous plants. But now comes n. n.
Hayes, plant breeder of the DIVISION
of agronomy and farm management
with new bulletin, No. 21O OF the
Minnesota Experiment station series,
methods of Corn-Breeding," which
among other things says:
Corn should be selected from per-
fect-stand hills and from vigorous
healthy stalks. Plants which are
green when the ear approaches ma