The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1925-04-16

be occupied by students, persons COM
ing from a distance to attend the |
course will be cared for in neighbor-
ing homes at a reasonable charge
This plan of housing, says DR.. A. vi
Storm, leader of short course! IL
followed at agricultural college sta
tions in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Ken
lucky, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio. Wis
consin, and in other states.
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Farm Spark Plugs-Melons and
cucumbers may be started nov In
hotbeds.
Spring is the best season for the
planting of all kinds of nursery stock.
Avon of Early and Burbank are
good tomatoes to grow, say University
Farm gardeners.
Cut flowers, like good pictures,
give attractivenss to the home. "A
useful flower garden should supple
ment every vegetable garden.
Kill the weeds before you see them,
advises R. S. Macintosh, horticultur-
list, University Farm. Don't let them
develop until they have to be pulled.
Frequent cultivation conserves mois-
ture and releases bacteria which i'm
prove the soil
University Stations Form Holstein
Circuit-Officials at University Farm
and the outlying stations at Crooks
ton and Morris have organized Hol-
stein breeding circuit in accordance
with suggestion made by DR.. G. H.
Eckles, head of the dairy division of
the university. AS each station will
use a single sire approximately two
and half years before change is
necessary, new bulls will have to be
purchased only every six or seven
years.
"The principal object of the new
SYSTEM" says DR.. Eckles, sis to re-
duce the university's investment in
sires while at the same time getting
better sires. Eventually it is hoped
to form breeding circuits for other
cattle breeds and possibly for other
kinds of farm animals"
Under the arrangements made by
the three stations 4-year-old Hol-
stein bull, used until recently in the
has been purchased by the university
and shipped to the Crookston sta
ton. This bull was sired by King
Segis Pontiac Count and as 2-year-
old was placed third at the 1928 Ma
tional Dairy Show. His dam.
daughter of Piebe Laura Ollie Home
stead King, has national reputation
-S producer and show ring winner.
More than 20 of his daughters were
Inspected by the university dairymen
before he was purchased.
A young bull used at the Crooks
ton station the last two and half
years has been placed at the head of
the University Farm Holstein herd.
This animal is a grandson of that
great sire, Sir Pietertje Ormsby Mer-
cedes. His dam is Mamsell Johanna,
the world champion 4-year-old COW,
producing 1877 pounds of butter
from 81, SIS pounds of milk in year.
The third bull constituting the circuit
has been transferred from University
Farm to the Morris station. The
bull is a son of Piebe Laura Ollie
Homestead King and a three-fourths
brother to the American butter-cham-
pion, May Walker Ollie Homestead.
"U" Cannot Furnish Inoeulating
. Material-So many requests for in
oculation material for alfalfa and
clover are received at University
Farm that it seems we'll to state def
nitely again that the university has
no supply and cannot furnish any i.
Leading seedsmen of the Twin Cities
usually have in stock reliable CONNER
cial products such as Nitragin and
Humogerm put up in humus, and No
dogen and Farmogern put up in jelly
: media.
3 Without incubation alfalfa, sweet
, clover and soybeans can be only par
1 TALLY successful and are often nearly
. total failures. According to A. G.
! Army of University Farm the follow
t ing method has been found satisfac
t tory in securing incubation when the
7 work has been well done:
From a field that is growing OF
produced last season well inoculateC
plants, as indicated by, an abundance
of nodules on their roots, take as
! much soil by measure as there is seeo
D to be sown. Sift this when still mois
$ through fine sieve and spread in the
shade to dry. Moisten the seed ano
then mix with it approximately an
equal amount by measure of the dry
soil. By drying the soil it will take
, up the water on the moistened seeds
and adhere to them. Fresh soil mixeo
! with the seed and sown Immediately
gives good results.
D When commercial inoculants are
! used the grower should follow &C.
! companying directions for applying te
the seed. incubation is so necessary
on sandy lands that Mr.. Army advises
( the use of both soil and commercial
inoculant. Fine black soil is much
2 superior to sandy soil for inoculatine
: because it contains greater numbers
: of bacteria and adheres to the seeds
4 better.
. Many Minnesotans do Home Study
Work-Of the 5000 students who
: did home study work last yeal
through the Correspondence Study
$ department of the University of Min.
e nesota less than 500 reside outside the
4 state. Most of these live in the states
e Immediately adjoining, but about loo
f of them are scattered from Alaska tt
s Porto Rico and from California tt
4 Maine. Nearly all are citizens OF
former citizens of Minnesota.
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