The Sauk Centre herald., 1924-02-28

in Minnesota. The use of imported
seed at any price will be poor in
vestment for the Minnesota farmer
in the long run. The loss of the
clover stand during the winter of
1924-25 means a loss of the clover
crop in 1925 as well as the money in
vested in the seed.
ut is best to pay the price asked
by reliable seed growers for native
seed or to use biennial white sweet
clover, alfalfa or soybeans to take it's
place. Do not be misled regarding
any statements to the effect that i'm
ported red clover seed terminates
well and do not buy it because it is
cheap"
! Short Course Dates Changed to
April 1O-19-The dates of the four
teenth annual short course at Uni
versity Farm for club boys and girls
have been changed to the week of
April IA to 10, which is the general
vacation week for the schools of
Minnesota. Any boy or girl in the
state from 10 to 20 years of age may
register for what might be called the
Junior Farmers and Homemakers'
Week Short Course. Outstanding
features of the course will be-
Forenoons- Regular class work.
Calves, pigs, sheep, poultry, corn,
potatoes, gardening, canning, bread
making an sewing will be studied and
discussed each day with view to
using the knowledge acquired in do
ing the club projects of the year.
Afternoons - Sightseeing trips
about the Twin Cities and excursions
to the states prison at Saltwater and
the stockyards at South st. Paul.
Evenings program at the
gymnasium followed by program of
moving pictures, club songs and
stunts and short talks at the auditor
ium.
T. A. Erickson, the state leader,
announces that prize will be award
ed the club which seends the largest
delegation to the course. Some of the
counties, he says, are planning to
pay the expenses of some member of
each club during their stay at Uni
versity Farm.
| Dates for similar courses at outly-
ing stations are: Morris, March 81 to
April a; Crookston, April z to IL.
County short courses for boys and
girls have already been held at eight
or ten different points with attend
ance ranging from about so to 175.
| H.
"Hort" Short courset at "U" Well
Attended-The best attended short
course in horticulture ever held at
University Farm, st. Paul, came to
a close recently after a three weeks
session. Eighty men and women reg
istered for intensive study of land
scaping and fruit and vegetable grow"
ing. There was large enrolment
of nursery statesmen and other at
taches of Minnesota nursery COM
panies. A program of particular in
| tereSt to these men was given the
first week. Problems of the vegetable
growers were considered the last
week. Thursday, February FL, was
given largely to study of the tractor
and it's profitable uses in gardening
and truck farming. Frank Held of
Columbus, Ohio, president of tractor
company, and l.. l.. Heller of Chi
cago, agricultural advisor of Cook
county, one of the outstanding truck
growing counties in the United
States, gave addresses. Motion pic
lures of tractors and garden hoes in
action were exhibited in the auditor
ium.
These Varieties Have Made Good
Under Test-Varieties of small grains
which have made records for favor
able performance under eXacting ex-
perimental tests are recommended for
use in Minnesota this year by COM
mittee of farm crops men of Univer-
sity Farm and the outlying stations.
In the list given below the accession
number signifies that the particular
variety was originated at some out
side experiment station, but has been
tested in Minnesota and found desir-
able for use in this state:
Wheat Spring varieties: Com
sion No. 1889. Durum wheat: Min
Minturki, Mimi. No. 1907.
Oats-Early maturing: Sixty Day,
MINI. No. CTS; Iowa 103, accession
No. 531. Medium maturing: Victory,
accession No. 514; Minota, MINI. No.
512; Improved Ligowa, MINI. No.
281.
Barley - Smooth awned: Velvet
MINI. No. 447. Rough awned: Man
churia No. 1884, Six-rowed: Minstur-
Idi, MINI. No. 439. Two-rowed: !:
Svansota, Mimi. No. 440.
! Rye-Swedish, MINI. No. 2, for
general planting. Rosen for southern
Minnesota and other localities where
winter killing is not likely to be a
| factor.
Jack Pine Sure to Have Day In
Court multiply that the
jack pine will yet have it's day in
court. 1t may never be described as
a '1ordly pine" but that there is a
place for it and need of it becomes
clearer with every passing year.
Director Raphael Zon Of the Lake
States Forest Experiment station,
with headquarters at University
Farm, says the value of good stands
of jack pine second growth at so
years of age would be from $225 to
$500 per acre, and this in the sandy
wastes of northern Minnesota. Michi-