The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1925-04-02
ALFALFA IS IDEAL
HAY CROP FOR FARM
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of which was fed on corn alone,
weighed seventy five pounds, while
the other being fed on corn and al
falfa weighed one hundred eighty
pounds.
/ have read that it makes very
good feed for chickens. Some poul-
try men advise planting small plot
for ruffage for chickens during the
summer.
Best of all is it's economical food
value to dairy men. 1t is SAID that,
if there was an acre of alfalfa to
every cow in Minnesota, the dairy
mems profits would be increased
thirty million dollars. 1t is up to
the Sank Centre community to see
that they get their share of the thlr-
ty million dollars. A pound OF al
falfa is equal to pound of bran. 1t
is the cheapest way to provide pro-
tein to the dairy ration. 1t also pro-
vides vitamines, minerals, and lime
all of which go to produce strong,
healthy, high producing stock. The
agricultural college of Minnesota
SAYS there is no better hay grown.
One farmer in the Red River Val
ley says if he had known about al
A, falfa forty-three years ago, the seed
would have been worth fifty dollars
a pound to him as it would have done
his ditching by the root system. He
said it would have saved him thous-
ands of dollars in work. Undoubtedly
some of the farmers of our home COM
munity could use this idea to a very
good advantage.
In summing up what alfalfa means
to our home community you will no
tice these things. 1t is always sal
able both as seed and hay. 1t has
killed out Canada thistles, sow thist-
les, and many other weeds. 1t pro-
duces twice the yield of any other hay
crop over a period of years. 1t is
the most profitable protein feed that
can be bought or sown. 1t is the
most wonderful soil builder of all
crops. 1t is the greatest mortgage
litter known. 1t means that instead
of farmers loosing their homes and
becoming renters they will be pros
porous owners, and as Edgar Guest
says, eft takes a lot of living in a
house to make it home" 1t means
the stabilizing of all business. 1t
means the dawn of a new era of
prosperity such as the community of
Sank Centre has never known. Or
to state it POLITICALLY:
"What makes the landscape look SC
fair;
What blossoms bright perfume the
air,
What plant repays the farmers toll,
And will enrich the worn out soil?
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What is the crop that always pays,
And will mature in forty. days,
Resisting drought, the frost and
heat;
Whose roots reach down hundred
feet?
ALFALFA
What grows in loan, clay and sand /;
What lifts the mortgage off the land |;
What crop is cut six times a year,
And no foul weed in it appears?
"What makes the swine so healthy
feel,
And never raise hungry squeal;
The wholesome food that never fails
To put three curls into their tails?
ALFALFA ->
'What makes all other stock look
nice,
And bring the highest market price !;
What fills the milk pals, feeds the
calf,
And makes the old COW a'nost
laugh?"
ALFALFA
Ralph Grimm of the Minnesota Ex-
detrimental farm at St. Anthony
Park was introduced by Mayor Park
er as the principal speaker of the af-
ternoon.
Mr.. Grimm started out by hand
somely complimenting Victor Key
on the quality of his prize winning
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