The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1925-06-25
DEPARTMENT FOR THE AGRICULTURlSTS
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

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consin, McFall of Massachusetts,, and
Erdman of California. Dean w. c.
Coffey of the Minnesota station is q
member of this committee but was
unable to be present because OF the
press of other business.
Potato Tour Will Lead to Red Val.
ley-The midsummer potato tour OF
the agricultural extension service Oh
the university and the State Depart.
ment of Agriculture will be held In
Red river valley counties, beginning
July % in Clay county. The secono
day will be spent in Norman county
the third day at the Northwest Elk
pertinent Station, Crookston, and IN
fields of Polk county, and the fourth
and last day in Marshall county and
counties to the north, the tour ter
minating at Northcote in klttson
county. Local committees will ald
the extension people in making and
carrying out plans for the tour. Sew
eral visitors from other states are ex,
pected. Members of the party VIII
study variety and strain tests and the
effects of spraying and seed plot
demonstrations.
Famous Veterinarians Coming to
Veterinarians OF national
reputation will have charge OF the
clinics which will feature the closing
day, Thursday, July 16, Of the short
course and semi-annual meeting OF
the Minnesota State Veterinary Med
ical association at University Farm.
DR.. R. R. Dykstra, dean OF the
veterinary division, Kansas State Ag'
ricultural College, will be in charge
of the horse clinic; DR.. w. F. Guard
professor of surgery in Iowa State
Veterinary College, will conduct the
swine clinic; DR.. j. N. Frost, pro;
fessor of surgery in the New I ORR
State Veterinary College, the cattle
clinic; DR.. w. j. Lentz OF Veterinary
College, Philadelphia, the small ami
NAL clinic, and DIR. l.. Van Els OF the
University of Nebraska the poultry
clinic.
Ae College Alumni Dedicate Tab.
let to Memory of War Dead-Seven..
teen Minnesota boys who were killed
in action or died in military camps
during the World war were honored
in special exercises at the agrlcultur-
al college campus commencement
week when a memorial tablet, mount
ed on a large boulder, was unveiled
by the alumni association and faculty
people. The boulder and its tablet
bearing the names of the II will rest
permanently in Memorial grove
which was planted to spruce few
years ago.
Dean E. M. Freeman of the college
said that the grove will be an ever
living memorial, not only of the
names but of the ideals of those OF
the college who died in the World
War.
Dean w. C. Coffey of the Univer-
sity Department of Agriculture spoke
briefly and eloquently, saying in
part:
Our interests center in life. II
was so for those whose deeds we
are here to commemorate. At best
we could know only in part their
anticipations for their own lives.
But we do know that they were plan
ming intelligently to live their lives
that they had learned to distinguish
between the important and the un-
important; that they had developed
the power to seek worth while rather
than trivial values.
In the midst of their preparation
for life, and at time when the mere
joy of living was sweetest, their
country called them to war. They
went willingly and we know why, fol
in addition to their heroic spirit they
were urged on by the direct steady
unhindered pressure of great tradi-
lions grouped around an historic
struggle for freedom and for the
right to engage in the pursuit of hap
piness: They did not stop to analyze
their patrotism-they felt it and act
ed upon it; they did not pause to
question their duty they performed
it. They measured up to the requisi-
ties of great task by wholly giving
themselves to it. Our duty consists
in holding their memory and their
deeds so dear that we shall gain a
new tradition which shall help us to
live lives of friendship unsullied, by
Selfishness. If we but do this, their
sacrifice will have been worth while
and their right to the crown of SUI
preme ennoblement through eternity
will be fully understood.
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Esthonian In State to Study Club
Work-Jaak j. Umarik, chief of the
agricultural education division and
minister of agriculture at Tallinn,
Esthonia, is in Minnesota to make an
intensive study of boys and girls
club work and the methods used in
teaching vocational agriculture in
high schools.
In studying junior club work he
has visited the office of the state
leader at University Farm and has
been guest of the club camp in
Ramsey Park at Redwood Falls and
also of club members in their homes.
Before coming here he was advised
by the United States department men
at Washington that Minnesota is one
of the outstanding states in promot-
ing club work.
New World methods of teaching
agriculture in high schools and of in
teresting farm boys and girls in club