The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1924-02-21
CERTIFIED GRIM ALFALFA
SEED


Blue Valley Farm Service informs
farmers that state-certified pure
Grimm Alfalfa seed can still be pur-
chased by placing orders with either
of the two following men:
Edward Englebretson, Sec. Alfalfa
Growers Assn, Starbuck, MINI.
Price Soc per pound. F. o. B. Star
buck, sacks extra.
Nils Skinnemoen, Wendell, Mimi.
Price SOC per pound F. o. B. Wen
dell.
The Starbuck Association has
from six to seven thousand pounds of
seed left. Mr.. Skinnemoen has only
500 pounds. Either seed, we feel very
safe in recommending to any farmer
desiring the best pure Grimm Alfalfa
seed. Both seeds are scarified and
have guaranteed termination. If you
wish to engage any of this seed, we
advise you to act soon.
Seasons Last Dairy Short Course
Ends-The facilities of the dairy di-
vision of the state university were
taxed to the limit when, in addition
to the regular class and investiga-
tional work, 62 men registered the
first of the year for the six weeks
short course for beginners in cream
cry operation. Forty-eight of the
students were Minnesotans, ten came
from Wisconsin and four from Iowa.
They ranged in age from 10 to 81.
The course was in charge of C.. D.
Dahle, assistant professor of dairy
husbandry. Assisting were members
of the dairy staff and agricultural
engineering division. The students
not only received instruction in the
latest methods of making high grade
butter, but were given opportunity to
make butter under the supervision of
experts. Thorough work was also done
in creamery accounting and creamery
mechanics.
This was the last of the dairy
school courses for the winter of 1928
"a and the last also that will be held
in the old Dairy Hall at University
Farm. At the close of the present
university quarter the dairy division
men will move into new building
to which the finishing touches are
now being given.
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Journal Renews Its Offer to Club
Juniors-More free educational trips
and more scholarships for club boys
and girls of Minnesota!
The Minneapolis Journal has re-
newed it's offer to dairy calf club
members. Regents of the university
have approved and accepted the Of
fer. The winner of junior dairy calf
club work in every Minnesota coun-
ty having dairy calf club enrolment
of % or more will be given a free
trip and entertainment for about a
week. In addition, The Journal Of
fers scholarships of 500 each, good
at the schools of agriculture at Uni
versity Farm, Morris and Crookston,
or at the agricultural college, one
scholarship to be awarded to the boy
or girl adjudged the state winner in
dairy calf club work in each of the
breed classes.
The scholarships given by The
Journal in 1923 were won by Oscar
Goranson of Blue Earth county for
the Holstein class; Kenneth Walters
of Douglas county for Guernseys;
Stanley Hitler of Mower county for
Jerseys; John Chambers of Steele
county for Ayrshires, and George
Segner of Wright county for the
Brown Swiss. Young Walters had
planned to leave the farm, but has
reconsidered since receiving his schol-
arship and is now attending the school
of agriculture at Morris.
Smut of Wheat (Bunt) Can be
Controlled - Replying to inquiries
made by the agricultural extension
service of the University of Mime
sofa, elevator managers in practically
every wheat-growing county in the
state report damage to the wheat
crop of 1923 or other recent years
from sinking smut or bunt. The
dockage on account of the presence
of smut runs from three to five cents
a bushel. In some instances the loss
in a county has ranged from to 20
per cent.
Experiments made at various sta
tons of the university show that this
disease of wheat can be controlled by
mixing dry copper carbonate dust
with the seed grain. The new method
is just as effective as the formalde-
hyde method, with the added adj
vantage that no water is required,
that the terminating power of the
seed is not injured, and that seed can
be treated quickly and easily at any
time without danger of freezing.
Wheat growers of several Pacific
coast states have found the new treat
ment to be all that is claimed for it.
Wheat so treated was planted on 10
acres only in Washington state in
1920. The plant disease specialist
for that state now reports that 1,500,-
900 acres will be sown this year with
seed which has been treated with cop
per carbonate.
An old butter churn or keg or
box mounted on revolving axis can
be used in mixing the dust and the
seed. Two ounces of the dust should
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