The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1924-07-10
DEPARTMENT FOR THE ACRlCULTURlSTS

Andrew Boss Sees Good Wheat
Yield and a Paying Price-Good
yields of wheat and fairly good pric-
es, at least, are forecast by Andrew
Boss, chief Of the division of farm
crops and farm management, Uni
versity of Minnesota. Here are rea-
sons why he finds the outlook favor
able for wheat:
Farmers living in the spring wheat
region have reason to believe that
fortune is going to favor them this
year. The cool, moist spring has
been an excellent one for the spring
wheat crop. The plants are well
rooted and have stooled we'll, so that
promise for good growth is quite
evident, and good yields should be
obtained unless rust or some other
epidemic should strike the crop.
The outlook for good prices is
also encouraging. Farmers every
where seem to have taken seriously
the word to decrease the acreage. The
acreage of spring wheat in United
States and Canada, as well as of
winter wheat, has been materially
curtailed. Reports from Europe in
dictate that weather conditions have
been unfavorable there and the crop
is below normal The indications at
the present time are that the wheat
crop in. the United States will be con-
siderably below that of last year, and
this fact, coupled with an annually
increasing demand in the United
States, should give favorable re-
action between supply and demand OF
wheat.
While it is not probable that the
United States will return to a large
acreage of spring wheat, it seems
probable at this time that those who
have a good crop of wheat this year
may fare better than they have for
several years back.
Spud Tour Will Lead to Peat
Muck Lands-Peat and muck Sec
tions of the Minnesota potato belt
will be included in the third annual
Minnesota Potato Tour, August to
8, in charge of the agricultural ex-
tension service men and potato spec
ialists of the University.
The Hollandale district just north
of Albert Lea will be inspected on
August 5, says r. c. Rose, plant di-
sease specialist at University Farm.
AS the name indicates, the farmers
of the district are chiefly Hollanders
who know how to grow truck crops
and potatoes for the seed market.
These people have settled on hun
-dreds of acres reclaimed by drainage.
On August fields of potatoes on
newly developed peat lands around
New Brighton, Coon Creek and
Anoka will be visited. Princeton and
Hinckley are centers of extensive
potato growing districts and fields be-
tween the two places will be inspect
ed August Z. In that district pota-
toes are grown extensively on both
high land and peat and the crop is
marketed both as table stock and
Sed. ID ~
On August 8 the tour will lead
from Hinckley to Duluth and on
August 9 the potato fields of the
Northeast Experiment Station and of
the Meadowlands district will be UNI
der inspection. 1t will be seen that
the tour will cover the state from
north to south and will give visitors
opportunity to study all the varieties
from the Cobblers, Triumphs, and
Russell Burbanks in the Albert Lea
country to the Green Mountains and
Rurals around Duluth.
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Don't Taste Canned Vegetables,
Legumes Until They're Boiled-An-
other warning against the deadly
bacillus botulinus, the organism that
sometimes affects canned goods, has
been received at University Farm
from the bureau of chemistry of the
United States Department of Agri-
culture.
Under no circumstances taste
canned asparagus, corn, string beans,
or spinach before boiling, is the warn
ing issued by the bureau. Such veg
etables should be boiled five minutes
before using even if there is no sign