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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1925-10-01

have become SO serious in certain
parts OF the corn belt that committee
representing the principal agricultur-
al experiment stations of the Middle
West is to make tour and study con-
ditions according to Deaen Walter C.
Coffey of the University of Mime.
sofa, department of agriculture They
will make the trip this week, return
ing early in October.
Seeking permission of the Board of
Regents for the trip outside the
state, Dean Coffey laid emphasis on
the menace which this new insect
enemy holds for the agricultural re-
gions where corn is a major crop.
The party will visit places in Iowa,
Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and prob
ably will go into Ontario, Dean Cof-
| fey said.
The Board of Regents also accepted
a gift of approximately $4,000 from
a commercial fertilizer company to
pay the expenses of an investigation
to determine the relationship, if any,
between the prices of tobacco and po-
tatoes and the use of fertilizers. Cor
nell University and the University of
Minnesota were chosen as the institu,
tons to receive such a gift. Cornell
to study tobacco and Minnesota pota-
toes. The work will be carried on by
experts on the university staff, Dean
Coffey said.
Tobacco Is a Cash Crop for Stearn
County Farmers.-M. C. Loesch, sue
cessful tobacco grower of Kimball,
Mimi, had an excellent educational
tobacco exhibit at the Sank Centre
fair this year.
Mr.. Loesch says tobacco is. in
Stearns county to stay as one more
possible cash crop. He cautions any
one about ever getting too great
an acreage of tobacco. Tobacco re-
quires plenty of manure fertilizer
and stock enough cannot be kept on
a place if this acreage of tobacco is
too large. He says, "The average to-
bacco grower around his neighbor-
hood has from l to acres and this
is plenty.
Stearns county produces more to-
bacco than any other county in Min
nesota. The Stearns county crop has
Melted the growers 100000 average
per acre for the last 5 years. Stearns
county shipped Is car loads in 1924
according to Mr.. Loesch's figures.
Mr.. Loesch says any good corn
ground is good tobacco land. 1t
can't be too rich. 1t is put in after
corn planting and harvested before
corn harvest. Tobacco is more popu-
lar with an owner than renter. A
man is better off if he keeps his acre
age down so he can handle it with his
own help, says Mr.. Loesch.
Tobacco will average 1900 to 1900
pounds in yield. The price will vary
according to the quality. This year
good quality leaf is worth from 15c
to zoe per pound. Poor quality &c to
12c. celia
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1925-10-01
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
BLUE VALE YARN, SERVICE
BY M. A. Nye
AT THE FAIR
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

Of course there is no need of say
ing at which fair because there was
only one fair this week and that was
the Sank Centre Fair.
Did you see the vegetable entries
in the Agricultural Building at your
fair this year? If not, you missed
something.
Nearly every vegetable known was
represented and there were all these
in larg numbrs.
Carrots, beets, potatoes, squash
pumpkins, cabbages, tomatoes, leeks
etc. They were all there.
The carrots probably had the heav-
lest count of any. There were many
easily as large as ordinary cucumbers
There was nothing small about the
sugar beets. They were of the bal
loon tire variety.
The smallest exhibit in the Agri-
cultural Building was the apple ex-
hibit. 1t was smaller than usual this
year. There was the most corn shown
of any year and the most potatoes
There was a good small-grain exhibit
The Sank Valley Farmers Club
and the Helping Hand Society COM
peted for honors with their splendid
products display booths.
Paul Wilcox and John Wolf who
were acceptive entries, were both
highly satisfied with the large num-
Der of exhibits brought in.
In the Agricultural Building Ell
bridge Cass said their entries in that
department were more by far this
year than ever before.
Mrs. j.. Determan at the Helping
Hand Exhibit said, "the lateness of
the fair date was better for their ex-
hibit in some ways and some ways
not" They had some fine exhibit
specimens that were frosted within
the last two or three weeks. ...
Mat Jennisen well-known Sank
Centre Holstein breeder, stated that
the local Sank Centre-Meire Grove
Cow Testing Association should have
had an exhibit at the fair this year,
demonstrating what testing cows will
do for any farmer.
We quite agree with Mr.. Jennisen
about the Importance OF COW testing.
More alfalfa and COW testing are the
two master keys to greater profits for
any dairyman.
A dairyman who will get a supply
of milk record sheets, put them up in
his barn, get pair of milk scales and
start keeping milk weights on all his
cows for the entire year will usually
soon be selling some of his cows, get
ting pure bred bull, buying better
cows, and growing more alfalfa. His
milk records will open his eyes to the
Importance of all these necessities.
Farmers of kittson Win Judging
Event-Kittson county's team of
three farmers won the dairy cattle
judging contest at the recent State
Fair with total score of 842 poins
The Fillmore county team was second,
and the ~ lon cfnr oo,,,,fx, foo,,, 4L:x.l
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1925-10-01
Citation for Hearing ON Petition 70,
+ Pr0hate 0f WIFI


Probate of VIII
Estate of John H. Wolter, Deceased.
State of Minnesota, County of Stearns
IN PROBATE COURT
In the Matter of the Estate of John
II. Wolter.
The State Of Minnesota to and all
persons interested in the allowance and
probate of the will of said decedent:
The petition of Mary G. Wolter, being
duly filed in this court, representing
that John II Wolter, then resident of
the County of Stearn.- State of Mime
sofa, died on the 18th day of October,
1922, leaving last will and testament
which is presented TO this court with
said petition. and praying that said in
strument be allowed as the last will
and testament of said decedent, and
that letters Testelmentary be issued
thereon to her the said Mary G. Wolter.
Now, therefore. you.. and each of you,
cause, if any you have, before this
court, at the Probate Court Rooms in
the Court House, in the City of st.
Cloud, County of Stearns. StatesQf Min
nesota, on the 10Th day of October,
1925 at $500 o'clock A. M, why the
prayer of said petition should not be
granted.
witness the Honorable. J. B. Himsl.
Judge of said court. and the seal Of
1926
court seal) JB. HIMsL.
FREDERICK J. MILLER,
Attorney for Petitioner.
Little Falls, MINI.
Published Sept. "a, Oct. 1-8, 1925.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1925-10-01
Fine Honey Exhibit

AS AASAASy AAhAoAS
Are you interested in bees? There
was a very fine educational bee ex-
hibit at our Fair this year.
Lewis A. Kunkel of Kimball, Min
nesota had an exhibit hive of bees
with him and also an exhibit of glass
es, jars, ETC., of strained honey.
Mr.. Kunkel is at present selling
all of his honey locally. He sells
comb honey, extracted honey and
wax. He is a great bee enthusiast
and very willing to give his best
knowledge and information about
bees and bee culture. He believes
more farmers should take an interest
in bees.
He says, "The average bee colony
has from twenty thousand to fifty
thousand bees in it." The Queen bee
lays all the eggs and keeps up the
population of the colony. Some sum-
mer days queen may lay as high as
two thousand eggs daily. The eggs
are three days in the egg stage, seven
days in the larva stage and twelve
days in the pupa stage.
Mr.. Kunkel has seventy colonies of
bees on his place. He sells his honey
at zoe per pound.
He says white clover is best bee
pasture, Eastwood second, and sweet
clover third. Of the fall plants,
goldenrod is best, buckwheat second
and Spanish needle third. This year
was an exceptionally good year for
bee pasture.
The smoker is very necessary in
handling bees. Bees are afraid of
fire. The minute they smell smoke
they fly to the comb and suck them
selves full Of honey, as they think if
their hive and work is burning up,
they will take what they can get to
live on. This is their instinct when
they are smoked. Then after they
are full of honey they are lazy and
docile and have all the fight taken out
of them.
: Mr.. Kunkel says no one should be
afraid of bees when smoker can be
used
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1925-10-01
DEPARTMENT FOR THE AGRICULTURISTS

Six teams, three dairy farmers to a
team, took part.
The highest scoring individual con-
testants were o. Hampstead, Houston
county, 344 points out of a possible
$50; Andrew Anderson, Kittson coun-
ty, 800 points, and B. I. Gilbertson,
Winona county, 800 points.
The contest was sequel of eNten-
sion work in dairying carried on by
the College of Agriculture in ten
Minnesota counties the past year.
L. v. Wilson, dairy extension spe-
cialist, was in charge and says Min
nesota will be represented in the ma
tional judging contest for farmers,
if one is held, at the approaching Ma
tional Dairy Show at Indianapolis.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1925-10-01


Tobacco is started from seed and
transplanted. The tobacco from an
acre will usually bring from $4,000
to 100000 per acre. The expenses
without land rent will run from $50
to $4,000 according to Mr.. Loesch
His figures showed that Stearns
county had good tobacco worth $780,
600 during the last years. The big
gest item of equipment necessary for
tobacco curing is curing shed.
Their average yield for the last 5
years has been 1910 pounds per acre.
The average price received during
this time has been 15c per pound
Their cost of production was around
$50. 90.
Mr.. Loesch's tobacco exhibit in
troduced new crop exhibit in the
agricultural department of the Sank
Centre Fair this year.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1925-10-01

Sherburne to Have Sweet Clover
Tour-The first sweet clover pasture
tour will be led by. Minnesota College
OF Agriculture men, headed by An
drew Boss, in Sherburne county, Fri
day, October 9. The first meeting
will be held at 1890 A. M. on the
Mohnstrom farm near Elk River
Three other farms, upon each OF
which the university men have con-
Quoted seeding trials this year, will
be visited.
Adequate pasture is big problm
for farmers on sandy land. The
hardy, drouth resisting sweet clo-
yer plant has given a splendid ac-
count of itself in all university main
tanned plots and farmers fields in
Sherburne county. This, too, des-
pite the prolonged period of drouth
which complicated the situation.
Business men of the county, as
well as farmers, are invited to take
part in the tour, one object of which
is to organize a sweet clover growing
project on more far-reaching scale.
Co-operators Appoint Extension
Forester-Beginning October 1 Min
nesota farmers and timber owners
will have the help Of university ex-
tension specialist nforestry in solv-
ing theier problems and forwarding
their enterprises. Parker Anderson,
a graduate of the school of forestry
University of Minnesota, has been
appointed extension forester with
headquarters at University Farm.
agencies are cooperating in this new
lservice-the agricultural extension
service of the university, the State De-
1partment of Forestry, the division of
forestry in the agricultural college,
and the United States Department OF
Agriculture. The objects are to as
sist owners of farms in establishing
and maintaining woodlands, shelter
belts, windbreaks, and other forms of
forest growths, in growing and renew
ing useful timber crops, in market
ing and utilizing such crops. Demon
strations in the best forest practices
will be established in connection with
the county extension organization.
These will be supplemented by field
meetings, exhibits, personal confer
ences, lectures, correspondence, and
publications.
Egg Output Increased by Improved
Housing-Mrs. j. B. May of Winona
county believes that good poultry
house is essential to the most profit
able returns. She says: "Good hous-
ing does not mean expensive hous-
ing, but comfortable. 1t is possible to
improve the house one already has
at very slight expense" Mrs. May
increased production in her flock
from 1853 eggs per hen in 1917 te
100 eggs per hen in 1924 by better
housing, feeding, and culling.
a.
Experts Will Study Corn Borer
Pests-Depradations of the European
corn borer, one of the most recent
and most dangerous insect pests to be
introduced into the United States,
Citation for Hearing ON Petition for
Probate of VIII
Estate Of John H. Wolter, Deceased.
State of Minnesota, County of Stearns.
IN PROBATE COURT
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1925-10-01
How to Aid Alfalfa to Get Through

How to Aid Alfalfa to Get Through
Winter = Experiments at University
Farm have demonstrated that winter
killing of alfalfa may be avoided ir
large degree by showing only certified
Grimm seed, or seed of another va
riety equally hardy and, in addition
!by leaving growth of approximately
four inches or more in the fall tt
help hol dthe snow for winter protec
Ftion.
A. C. Army, in charge of university
farm crops, says it is best to stotI
cutting about the middle of Septem
Der. If pasturing is done after that
it should be light so as to leave a gen.
erous growth for protection from the
winters cold.
Mr.. Army further says that light
pasturing in the fall is less injurious
than cutting for hay late in the au.
tumn. Farm animals do not usually
Craze alfalfa down so closely and
evenly as the mower cuts it, conse.
suently more of a growt his left te
retain the snow.
Greenhouse Insect Pests Are I'm.
der Fire-A. G. Ruggles of the di.
vision of entomology, University
Farm, and H. L. Parten, post-grad.
uate student, have begun an investi-
cation and study of greenhouse in
sect pests. Several proprietors OF
greenhouses will cooperate with them
in determining methods of control OF
pests and diseases affecting chrysan.
themums, roses, cyclamen, and many
other plants grown by professional
florists and householders.
o.
House Pullets Early for the Bes,
Results-Making good use of the
poultry house goes hand in hand with
having comfortable house into
which to place the flock, says Cora
Cooke, poultry specialist ait Univer-
sity Farm. One essential for this
particular time of yeear is to get the
pullets into their laying STARTERS
early-the first of October or earlier
This is the time they need to be hous-
ed for the winter if they are to start
promptly on winer Of steady laying.
Someone may ask, Shouldn't they
bet let out at all after October first %
The answer is "No-if the house has
been made comfortable beforehand u
Good egg production can be OBJ
tanned only where conditions are reg
ular from day to day. Sudden change
in either the management r feed of
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1925-10-01

Farmers of Kittson Win Judging
Event-Kittson county's team of
three farmers won the dairy cattle
judging contest at the recent State
Fair with total score of 842 poins.
The Fillmore county team was second,
and the Houston county team third.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1925-10-01

a flock checks egg production very
quickly. The weather changes sud-
denly from an extreme to another in
October and the birds are kept busy
adjusting themselves to conditions
just at time when all their effort
is needed in getting ready for their
winters work. 1t does not help mat
tiers any to let the flock out on the
warm days and house them when the
weather is bad. Pullets thus hand
led are restless and do not settle
down to work. On the other hand,
early Matched and well grown pullets
put into their laying house on a good
winter ration by October first can be
producing 10 or more eggs apiece
in November.
Money spent on improving the
poultry house will be repaid most
quickly if the house is put to i'm
mediate use.
Ice Cream Makers Short Course
Nov. 12-21-The first course in the
annual Dairy School at University
Farm will be for makers of ice cream
November IL to 81. Practical phases
of the subject will be discussed in 32
lectures. While eight laboratory pc
RODS will be used for practice work
in the preparation and handling of
the ice cream mix and the operation
of modern ice cream equipment. ere
Gently the dairy division completed
some interesting work dealing with
the selection of gelatins in ice cream
says w. B. Combs, who will be in
charge of the course. '"The details of
this work will be reviewed and in
struction given in it's application by
members of the university dairy staff,
assisted by R. M. Washburn, who has
been associated for 20 years with this
type of work"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-01-23

The Maria Clark grammar school
has organized an orchestra and eX-
pect in the future to furnish music
for their graduation and their own
public entertainments. The orchestra
is comprised of the following: violins.
Louise MacQuarrie. Edwin Maxwell,
Claude Cain; comets. Stefano Cam
pana. Keith miller; piccolo. Warren
Head; saXophone. Cedric Shepherd;
drums, Albert Wilson; piano, Doyle
Votour. A clarinet will be added
later. They will make their first ap-
pearance this afternoon at an enter
tainment to be given at the school
by the eighth and ninth grades.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-01-23
NATIONAL HOME

Officer Of the day Captain r. r
Laferriere.
Richard T.. Preston has returned
from pass to Biddeford.
William Sherman has been granted
furlough to Albany, n. Y, and
Hampton, Va.
Charles r. Thoits of Auburn, late
Co. c, 30th Me. Inf, has reported
for admission.
James f. Lambert, late U. S. Ma
w, John Murphy, late Goth Co. 152nd
Depot Brigade, and Francis ]. Walsh
late U. S. Navy, have been granted
discharges from the Home.
The moving picture program fol
Friday evening will be Miss Betty
Compson in THE Stranger" with q
Pathe News and comedy, Romeo
and Juliet" starring Ben Turpin.
Special features with the Suwanee
River Quartet who appear here next
Thursday is a reader, the famous
Suwanee River piano harp. the only
one of its kind in the world. and Mr.
CAN'T as "Old Black Joe" The
kennebec Central will run a special
train to accommodate those who wish
to see this show.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-01-23
|Deadlocked Jury
In N. J. Conspiracy
Case Is Discharged

, Jersey City. N. j., Jan. 22-The
jury in the trial OF ten Weehawken
police and two civilians charged with
conspiracy to violate the state pro-
hibition act was discharged today by
County Judge Egan following its
failure to agree after 10 hours OF de-
liberation, and 1t was announced
the case would be e-tried here with
in the next few weeks.
Previous to the next trial. the gcn-
era: subject of rum running in Hud-
son county will be revived when
Prosecutor John Milton presents to
the grand Jury next week the evil
dence brought out in the trial impli-
eating United States Senator Edward
I. Edwards in the alleged rum run
ming.
This evidence was introduced into
the trial Of the Weehawken police by
three federal prohibition agents. one
Of whom. Lionel Wilson. later admit
ted that he had been convicted Of
petty larceny In 1923.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-01-23
Plans Progressing
For Gardiner Shrine
Club Fair Soon

Plans are progressing rapidly for
the big Gardiner Shrine Club fair
which is to be staged from Tuesday
Jan. 81 to Friday, Jan. 80 inclusive.
This fair will be one Of the biggest
and best ever staged in kennebec
county. Committees have been ap-
pointed. every member of which is a
live wire in the line to which he has
been assigned. so that all indications
point to a busy week for Gardiner
people. Interest at the present time
is centered chiefly about the Gardi-
ner Shrine Club Ford Car Contest,
which is now going on. The contest
is between Miss Ada Davis, Miss Ell
dena Williams and Mrs. Edna Black.
Whichever one of these three girls
secures the most votes will win a
new Ford touring car which may be
seen on exhibition in the show rooms
of the Gardiner Auto Sales Co., in
Depot Square. Each of the confess
tants is busy every minute and it is
far from certain to which of them
the car will go. Now that the time
is short they need the support of
everyone, be he Shriner or not. in
order to help along the success of
the fair. The contest committee is
composed of three energetic mobiles,
s. ID. Soule, Z. H. Hodgkins and II. A..
Marston.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-01-23
Farmingdale R. C.
Officers Installed

The George A. Bowie National Re-
lief Corps, No. 101, held it's installa-
ton ceremonies at the Farmingdale
Town hall on Monday evening. A
bounteous banquet was served at $50
o'clock. The installing officer was
Mrs. Bertha Douglass of Hallowell,
who Is chief aide of the Department of
Maine. w. r. c. Mrs. Douglass was
assisted by Mrs. Ivy Colgan and Miss
Emma Jonse of Augusta. The follow
ing are the officers installed: Presi-
dent. Mrs. Nora G. Rice; senior vice
president, Mrs. Elizabeth Sawyer; jun
ior viN president. Mrs. Nellie Snow;
chaplain, Mrs. Harriet Bowie: secreta-
ry, Mrs. White: treasurer, Mrs. Au-
gusta McCausland; patriotic instruc-
tor, Mrs. Blanche Robbins; conductor,
Mrs. Eva Foster; assistant conductor.
Mrs. Huntington; press correspondent,
Mrs. Alice Wing; guard, Mrs. Peters;
assistant guard, Mrs. Eta Hartman:
pianist, Mrs. Beatrice Clary; color
bearers, MRS. Wright, Mrs. Weeks,
Miss Partridge, Miss Morang.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-01-23
Jusserand Near
Breakdown in
New York Farewell

New York. Jan. 22--His eyes cloud
ed with emotion. and his voice near
to breaking. former Ambassador
Jules Jusserand told more than 200
friends and admirers here today that
now that he had ceased to be the Of
flcial representative of France in
America he would for the rest of his
life consider himself "the unofficial
ambassador" from America to
France.
The farewell to the former dean Of
the diplomatic service was staged in
historic Fraunce's Tavern in lower
Manhattan where George Washington
babe farewell to his officers after the
revolution.
Solicitor General James II. Beck.
who came from Washington as the
representative of the Sons of the
Revolution, expressed the hope that
M. Jusserand instead Of returning to
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-01-23
Cut Night Work
To Balk Strikers
In New Bedford Mill

New Bedford. Mass, Jan. 22-The
management Of the Butler mill rath-
err than to grant theedemands of the
striking weavers on the night shift
presented this morning. announced
that night work at the mill would be
discontinued.
The striking weavers from the
Devon and Fisk mills met tonight
and decided to continue on strike.
The loom fixers Of the same plants
will meet tomorrow morning.
The executive Of the ring twisters'
union Of the Devon and Fisk plants
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-01-23

the fine exhibition displayed oy tnS
local aggregation. The Augusta
ia reunited to have one Of tho strong
est teams in the State and were run
ners nm in the recent "Y" tourna-
ment staged in Auburn.
A preliminary game Is in the maxi
ing. and a dance will wind up the
entertainment II a sufficient crowd Is
on hand, The management is under
heavy expense and in order to insure
some fast basketball for the remain
der of the season interest must be
shown and a large turnout OF rams
Is the only evidence of this. The
games will start promptly at eight
o'clock regardless of weather con-
ditions. Tickets will be on sale at
Conters mems shop at 23O Water
street.