The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1924-02-14

DEPARTMENT FOR THE ACRICUL TURISIS

nual short course in horticulture now
in progress at University Farm. Sew
enty-four persons, many of them
nursery statesmen, registered the first
week and many have been arriving
since. Splendid interest is being
shown in all lectures and laboratory
work.
Practically every phase Of fruit and
vegetable growing, landscape garden
ing and ornamentation is being stud
led at this course. Students are CIV
en- the principles of grape growing,
orchard planting, pruning OF brush
and tree fruits, spraying, flower grow
ing, and control of diseases and in
sects. Methods of improving garden
crops are explained by university
men.
Informal get-together and acquain-
lance meetings are held occasionally
in the evening. University men are
comforting with the short course stu
dents as to future programs of work
and study.
Certified Seed List Ready; Send
for it-Copies of the annual seed list
prepared by the Minnesota Crop I'm
provement association can be obtained
on request of A. D. Haedecke, the as
ISOLATION secretary, University Farm,
St. Paul. Seed of all kinds of grains
and grasses certified by the associa-
ton or reported for sale by members
and other farmers or offered for sale
by experiment stations of the state
is listed in a 12-page pamphlet, with
names of owners, quantities available,
etc.
Secretary Haedacke forecasts an
unusually strong exhibit of corn at
the State Seed Show and annual con-
vention of the association which will
be held at Owatonna February 10,
20, and FL. Many inquiries are being
received, he says, regarding the
meeting and show.
Home Extension Folk Plan 1924
Activities-When home demonstra-
ton agents of Minnesota met at Uni
versity Farm for their annual con-
ference they were told by F. w. Peck,
director of agricultural extension,
that one of the things which their job
imposes is to teach the farm partner
ship and to make the women full
partners with the men in any county
extension organization.
Because farm women themselves
often do not recognize or insist upon
this partnership" he said, ga peculiar
handicap is placed upon project work
as carried on by our home extension
forces. One of our teaching jobs is
to teach this partnership, to make it
clear to the partners. We need to
emphasize all the time the home as
the goal and center of interest and
incentive.
AS means to accomplish ends the
director said that trained, sympathetic
teachers, having we'll organized ma
terial and methods, and adequately
organized groups of farm women,
were absolutely essential. Publicity,
using the best of old and new meth
DDS, was likewise indispensable.
Dean w. C. Coffey sketched the
relationship Of agricultural colleges
and schools to the extension service.
The colleges and schools, he said,
must train the teachers and workers
for the extension arm of the univer-
sity. Experiment stations must be re-
sponsible for discovering the truths
which the extension forces are to
present. When once discovered, these
truths should be published in disable
form.
Programs of work, community de-
velopment, better methods of keep
ing records and making reports, the
farm bureau and home project work,
and many other subjects were dis
cussed at the conference. Miss
Grace Frysinger of the Washington
office spent the week at University
Farm and gave helpful advice and
suggestions in these discussions.
Bug. in Grain Bins? Freez EN-
to Death-Bran bugs and granary
weevils survive the winter by crawl
ing into warm pockets of grain in
bins on the farms and in mills and
elevators. They can be destroyed by
the simple expedient of exposing them
to freezing weather. Some millmen
have used the low temperature treat
ment for the pests with much success.
Even temperature of Is degrees F.
will get results, but sub-zero is bet
ter.
Farmers can clean their grain by
simply turning it over in cold wealth
err" says R. N. Chapman, entomology
list of the University of Minnesota
and an authority on insects infesting
stored food products. "The centers of
all grain bins should be disturbed so
as to expose all the warm hiding
places. The best way is to run the
grain through cleaner, by shifting
from a full bin to empty one, or
even turning over the grain in the
bin with shovel, will help materially
in reducing the bug population.
The bran bug and the weevil eat
the kernels of wheat, oats, rye, and
barley, leaving only the husks or
shells. Grain which is infested gets
no grade and sells for correspond
ingly low price on the market.
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