The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1925-01-29
By M. A. NYE
Blue Valley Farm Service

of Alfalfa hay, annually.
The time is not far distant when
their order is going to be filled every
year right here on Sank Centre
farms.
Sank Centre farms can grow AL
falfa.
A few conditions must be met in
order to insure success with Alfalfa.
1. Select clean ground, preferably
soil that has been under cultivation
the last couple years.
2. Fall pillow if ground must be
broken. Just disc and drag corn or
poato ground.
8. Select good hardy variety of
seed of your section such as certified
Grimm. Be sure it is scarifed.
a. Select high ground or ground
that has good drainage, where water
doesn't stand.
5. Have your soil tested for acidi-
ty especially if it is light or sandy.
6. Have a well packed seed bed.
(This is very important especially in
a dry year,.
z. Sow in the spring with bushel
per acre of some nurse crop as barley
or oats. Flax and wheat are also
good, sown light.
8. Sow 10 pounds to IL pounds
per acre. ~.
9. Inoculate Alfalfa Seed. (Buy
bottle of commercial incubator, or
send to the U. S. Department of
Agriculture at Washington, D. c..
and receive bottle free.
10. Put the seed in with any
method you desire but don't get it in
over an inch deep.
II. Cultivate your Alfalfa with a
spring tooth, once year just after
the first cutting. Begin the second
year.
Redwood County Boy First In
Corn Work-WilIiam Lord, IA years
old, of Walnut Grove, Redwood coun-
ty, produced an average OF 8l.4 bus
hels of dry corn to the acre on five
acre patch and was the state cham
pion junior corn club member IN
1924. Roy Johnson of Mortified was
the "runner-up" and first in the sin
gle acre event in the central section
with yield of S4.6 bushels. Other
awards have just been announced
from, the office of T. A. Erickson OF
University Farm, ohe state leader, as
follows:
Southern section, single acre-Lee
De Griselles of Pipestone, first, 1873
bushels; Ole Legvold of Walnut
Grove, second, 1873 bushels. Five
acres-Cassius French of LIE Sueur,
first, 1876 bushels to the acre; Clay
ton Evanson of Fairmont, second,
TAB bushels to the acre.
Central section, single acre-John-
son, first, reported above; Paul Palm
er of Excelsior, second, I'll bushels.
Five acres-Melvin Hermanson OF
Boyd, first, 66.5 bushels to the acre;
Alfred Aselson of Mortified, second,
51.3 bushels to the acre.
Northern section, single acre-Jos-
eph Kopecky of Angus, first, 46.l
bushels; Chauncey Johnson OF De-
troit, second, 1877 bushels. No five
acre contest.
Juniors from Al counties took part
in corn club work last year. Corn
clubs enrolled AL members as against
295 members in 1928, gain OF
more than sc per cent. One hundred
one members took part in some state
exhibit and thereby completed the
years program of work. Business
men of St. Paul and Minneapolis and
agricultural societies raised fund OF
S1,1OO for prizes on yields and eX-
hibits.
at was an off corn year and the
effects were only too evident near the
close of the contest when many were
forced to drop out by conditions be-
yond their control" says the state
leader. However, we feel that it
was a year of remarkable progress
and that the outlook for 1925 is de-
cidedly encouraging"
o.
Drillers and Varsity Men Will
Fraternize-Agricultural engineers OF
the university will take prominent
part in the third annual meeting OF
the Minnesota Well Drillers' associa-
ton which will be held at University
Farm, February A, 5 and 6. E. A.
Stewart will speak the first day on
ssThe Red Wing Modern Farm Pro-
iect." of which he is in charge. Mr..
Stewart will also give the chief adj
dress at the banquet the evening OF
February S. William Boss, chief OF
the engineering division, will be toast
master. Several outside speaker
have been engaged for the meeting,
among them w. j. Lantz OF Dayton,
Ohio, and E. C. Archibald OF Coun-
Gil Bluffs, Iowa. New officers will be
elected Friday forenoon, February ..
M. S. Spencer of Granada is president
of the association.
Purebred Livestock Freight Rates
Cut-Freight rates on purebred live
stock have been reduced So per cent
by the principal railroads Of the
northwest when certificates of regis
tration are attached to the bills of