The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1925-04-09

DEPARTMENT FOR THE AGRICULTURISTS

packer before sowing. 1t may be
sown with half bushel of oats or
barley. The grain may be cut for hay
if dry weather threatens to endanger
the sweet clover.
10. incubation is very essential,
especially on sandy lands. Mix with
the moistened seed as many pounds
of dry inoculated soil as there are of
seed. Inoculated soil may be secured
from well inoculated sweet clover
or alfalfa field. On sandy lands it is
a good pan to use a commercial inoc-
ulent in addition to the soil.
IL. The first crop of sweet clover
Should be pastured off or cut for hay.
Left to produce seed this crop pro-
duces so rank a growth that cutting
is extremely difficult. The second
crop may be cut easily with the bind
er and the bundles may be shocked
like grain until ready to thresh.
IL. The crop is ready to cut for
seed when approximately three
fourths of the pods have turned
black. The seed may be threshed
with the ordinary grain separator
one is available. Scarifying is neces-
sary to remove all of the hulls and
to scratch the hard seed coats. Yields
of seed range from 2 to bushels per
acre.
The Place to Start-There is only
one place to start when you set out
to make the most money out of milk
ing cows.
1t is in your choice of feeds that
you are going to grow. To grow the
proper feeds for your cows is the
very first step. 1t comes before bet
ter cows, before a pure bred bull,
before more windows in the barn, ven
tilating system, drinking cups, etc.
Before any of these improvements of
far more Importance is the kind of
feeds you are growing. Are they the
feeds that permit your cows to give
you the most milk.
Alfalfa Hay is the answer to the
hay problem for cows, sows and
hens. If you are growing Alfalfa
you know how important your Alfal-
ia is to you. Would you think Of
farming and milking cows without
Alfalfa?
Raising Alfalfa for hay and MAX
ing silage from corn and feeding
these two popular roughages in suf-
ficient quantities will produce more
butterfat per acre than any two 9th
er feeds a dairyman can grow.
Did you ever figure the butterfat
you will sell in a year in terms of but
terfat per acre instead of butterfat
per COW? Just try it once on your
farm. Is each tillable acre of land
that you are farming producing its
maximum amount of butterfat for
you when the feed from the acre is
marketed through your cows.
According to the experience of
hundreds of the best dairymen the
country over no ordinary farm is pro-
ducing it's best per acre through its
cows unless home produced. alfalfa
and corn silage make up the bulk
of the barn fed roughage, supple
mented with home grown grains.
Alfalfa for hay, sweet clover fol-
summer pasture, 40 per cent more
food valueis gotten out of pice OF
corn when made into silage than when
fed any other way. The great econ.
omy of corn silage has long been re-
cognized Alfalfa hay is no less
important.
If you will always be sure to in.
oculate alfalfa sweet clover and soy
bean seed before planting you car
farm the air above your farm as well
as your farm for these plants if in.
oculated take a great quantity of nj.
trogen from the air and add it to
your soil free of charge.
Pays to Use Sewing Machine At
| tachments- Women are not mechan.
ically minded, as a rule, and they
/ seem to hink that plain stitching by
machine is about all they can man.
| age; the box of attachments looks toe
mysterious even to be investigated
Now any one can learn to use the at
tachments. Binder, hemmer, tucker
and ruffler all stand ready to lighter
the labor Of making clothes. DOM
think, however, that all one needs il
to remove the presser foot, screw OF
the attachment and do perfect work
But little practice and careful fol
lowing of directions given in the bool
that comes with the machine will very
soon enable one to do good work il
a minimum of time.
Wide hens or narrow may bt
4 made without basting or even turn
i ING and more even than if made with
i out the attachment; binding may bs
put on a raw edge with one journe!