The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1924-05-22

Foresters Study the Jack Pine a. q
Crop-The feasibility of raising Jack
pine as crop, thus insuring con-
tlnuous supply of raw materials for
the costly paper mills which, lacking
such supplies, must be abandoned, is
the objective of an investigation SET
under way by the Lake State Forest
Experiment Station, with headouart.
ers at University Farm, and the Wis
consin Conservation Commission.
A. E. Wackerman of the Expert
ment station, and F. G. Wilson of
the commission, have left University
Farm for Scion Springs, Wis, where
they will study the rate of growth
and yield per acre of Jack Pine. This
investigation will be extended later
into the other lake states.
One of the serious problems con-
fronting the paper mill owners of
the lake states is that of prepetuating
their supply of raw materials in the
form of wood. For the heavier
grades of paper, this is chiefly jack
pine. With the depletion of forests,
species of tree which formerly were
of little or no use are becoming more
and more valuable. The jack pine is
one of the poorer trees which is now
eagerly sought by paper manufacture
ers and, in consequence, is rapidly be-
ing cut.
Beef Feeding Trials to Be Report
ed June 19-Can a self feeder be
used to advantage in fattening baby
beeves?
Is corn and cob meal as efficient
and economical as shelled corn and
oats in the ration of baby beeves fat
tening for market?
Is corn and cob meal equal to
shelled corn for this purpose?
Does it pay to use linseed meal in
the fattening ration of baby beeves
All these questions and other i'm
portant ones will be reported upon
and discussed at the fourth annual
Cattle Feeders Day at University
Farm on Thursday, June 10. w. H.
Peters, chief of the animal husbandry
division, and H. W.>Vaughan and A.
l.. Harvey, members of his staff, will
present the facts and conclusions to
be drawn from feeding trials begun
November 2, 1923, and to end June
10, 1924, or 223 days. Sixty head of
Aberdeen-Angus baby beeves have
been on feeding trials in six lots of
10 each.
A program of interesting exercises,
to which animal husbndry men of
standing will contribute, is being pre-
pared for Cattle Feeders Day.
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$2O,567 Hung Up for Crops at
State Fair-Farm crops men of the
university and officials of the Mime
sofa Crop Improvement association,
with headquarters : at University
Farm, are cooperating with the ag-
ricultural department of the Mime
sofa State Fair in arousing interest
and assembling displays for the 1924
exposition. A grand tital of $20,567
is offered for prizes in this depart
ment, $18,392 in cash and $2,175 in
trophies. All entries must be in by
Monday August 25. The sums of
$788 has been set aside for potato
premiums, $1,243 for grains and
seeds, $1,446 for corn, and $16,860
for county exhibits. Under the plan
adopted each exhibit is assured a lib
eral premium with opportunity of
adding to it either by high score or
beauty OF exhibit.
Fight Started Anew On Pocket
Gopher-Farmer in most Minnesota
counties have indicted the pocket go
pher as nuisance and a menace.
Counts in the Indictment charge that
the gophers not only throw up mounds
which smother field plants and hinder
farm operations, but destroy alfalfa
and other crops by eating the roots.
Townships and counties have COM
bined in instances to pay bounty of
10 cents for every gopher killed. Lit
tie Roadway has been made, however,
in exterminating them.
c. E. Nickel, extension entomolo-
gist with the university, has been in
structing farmers Of Dakota, Ramsey,
East Ottertail, and Kittson counties
in the gentle art of poisoning the
pocket gopher. Farmers were shown
how to mix up patches of poison and
how to locate the main runways in
which the poison bait is to be placed.
Good interest has been taken every