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

DEPARTMENT FOR THE AGRICULTURISTS

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turity insure normal maturity of the
ear.
Close selection of ear type leads
to a reduction in yielding ability.
For this reason no close selection
for ear type should be made.
This is no very striking change of
view point, except that too much en-
phasis has been placed on score card
ear type and not enough on vigor.
Mr.. Hayes experiments indicate
clearly that vigor has first claim on
the seed selecter's attention.
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New Egg-Marketing Plan In Bull
|letin-The growing interest in the
cooperative egg-marketing plan in
Minnesota has led the extension di-
vision of the Minnesota College of
Agriculture to issue a popular bulle-
tin outlining the plan in detail and
giving articles of incorporation for
a cooperative association.
The bulletin is the work of E.. C..
Johnson of the extension division. 1t
discusses the progress made by CO.
operative methods as applied to egg
marketing, the importance of the
membership agreement, methods of
handling the product, grading and
pooling, fundamentals for success,
and similar subjects.
1t is the feeling of the extension di-
vision that the bulletin will be of
assistance to communities wishing to
adopt the method now rapidly becom-
ing popular as means of increasing
profits.
The bulletin is for free distribu-
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Team Play Checked Losses By
Hoppers - The grasshopper pest,
which robbed not few farmers in
Minnesota of their pasture crop this
summer, and then turned in and cut
theeir oats crop in two, was checked
in one county by prompt team play
by the county agent and the board
of county commissioners.
That was in Chisago. C. J. Morck,
county agent, getting news of losses
being suffered by farmers at once set
on foot measures to block the game
of the hoppers. The board of county
commissioners got behind him, and is
sued an official warning through the
press and otherwise, urging farmers
to report the presence of grass mop
pers and to make use of poisoned
bran mash to check their ravages.
The farmers took heed, and, after
demonstrations by c. E. Nickel, one
of the insect pest men of the Mime
sofa Experiment station began to use
poison. They used more than 700
pounds of crude white arsenic, along
with their ingredients, and stopped
the pest"
The entomologists at University
Farm are sending out warnings to
farmers to be on the lookout early
next season, so that they may meet
another nvasion-almost certain to
come. Every county, it is felt, should
have some one whose duty it will be
to report the arrival of hoppers and
organize to prevent repetition of
this years losses.
A Dozen Reasons Why Screenings
Should Be Separated on the Farm
and Fed to Livestock.
1. Screenings have proved an eff
ficient and economical feed for live
stock.
2. Nearly 100000 bushels of
screenings were produced in 1928 by
spring wheat farmers in North Da-
kota, Minnesota, and Montana.
3. Over $675, 100000 was paid for
threshing this dockage.
a. Over 1890 extra freight cars
were used to haul it to market. This
made the car shortage more acute.
5. Over $8OO,O0O.OO freight was
paid for transporting this dockage.
6. More than 100000 lambs
could have been fed with the wheat
screenings that were wasted in the
four spring wheat states in 1923,
forming the entire grain ration.
Z. The resulting increase in
weight of the lambs, at IL cents per
pound would have brought $780,
900 to the farmers.
8. More livestock on Northwest
grain farms will mean better-bal-
anced farming and the conservation
of soil fertility.
9. Screenings can be cleaned out
of the wheat and rye at the time of
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a cost of or cents per bushel.
10. Spring wheat farmers who
cleaned their market wheat on the
farm in 1928 gained over 5 cents per
bushel as result of the cleaning.
Cleaning grain will often raise the
grain one or more grades.
II. SO per cent of the spring
wheat farmers in 1922 planted from
1 900 to half million weed seeds per
acre with their wheat.
IL. Millions of bushels more of
spring wheat could be grown on the
same land if weeds were eliminated.
Clean seed will help.
Extracts from Screenings as
Feed for Livestock" issued by the
United States Department of Agri-
culture. Copies may be obtained
free upon request to Grain Investi-
cations, 406 Flour Exchange, Min
neapolis.
FARM SPARK PLUGS
Are you planning to store potatoes
on your farm this winter? Does that
mean you are going to build storage
house or cellar? If so the Office of
Publications, University Farm, ST..
Paul, has plans that may be of help
to you.
Fresh eggs bring more money than
stale epos If navS To collect epos