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

By M. A. NYE
Blue Valley Farm Service
A Valuable New Years Resolution
"TRY SOME ALFALFA IN
1925"
No Dairy Farmer could make
more valuable New Years resolution
If he has not yet become an Alfalfa
grower.
Alfalfa doesn't have to be gone in
to on big scale by beginner. Star
with an acre or two OF fall plowed
clean, rich ground.
Alfalfa makes for the best anC
cheapest cow feed. It is up to every
Hairy man to make his feed cost al
cheap as possible. Alfalfa does this
the best of any hay crop that can be
grown for stock feed.
Alfalfa should be as common as
silos and in a very few years is bound
TO be as common as milk cows
Sweet Clover
AS Alfalfa is the best COW hay feed.
Sweet clover is the most popular sum-
mer cow pasture in many sections of
Minnesota.
A small acreage of a good stand of
sweet clover will pasture several head
of cattle. The big problem is to
keep the sweet clover from growing
away from the cows.
Sweet clover does not make a good
hay crop. 1t is too hard to cure.
Alfalfa is a much better hay and is
much easier to make.
The opinion of hundreds Of dairy
farmers over Minnesota is alfalfa
for Hay-Sweet Clover for summer
pasture for the Dairy man."
Soy Beans
Soy Beans are a valuable stock
feed. They are high in protein like
Alfalfa and Sweet clover.
They can generally be grown any
place that corn can be grown. A
variety should be selected that is adj
apted to the season of the particular
locality.
Soy Beans can be planted alone or
with corn. They can be put in the
silo, fed to cows in the bundle or
threshed and the seed used.
"Hogging off" corn and soy beans
is profitable and popular way of
marketing a corn and soy bean crop.
MINI. Corn Record at Chicago
Impressive-Winnings of Minnesota
corn growers at the International
Grain and Hay Show at Chicago were
as impressive in way as the win
nings of the university in livestock.
Consider the record made by the |
Junior corn growers from Minnesota |
in Region 2, which takes in that part
of Minnesota south of a line drawn
east and west from the Twin Cities.
All five prizes offered for white corn
were won by Minnesota boy exhibit
ors-Robert Blanchar of Sherburne,
first; Loren Blanchar, second; Albert
Lau of Tracy, third; Justus Legwold
of Frost, fourth; Louis Schmeising of
Lucan, fifth. Minnesota boys-Clar-
ence Lien of St. Cloud, Clarence
Lohrback of Revere, and Harold Has
ZACH of St. Paul-won the first three
prizes out of the five offered for [
white corn grown in Region 1. Nor
man Lien of St. Cloud placed first {
in the yellow corn competition for the
same region.
Often prizes offered in the regular
competition for senior corn growers S
in Region 1, Minnesota exhibitors of l
yellow corn carried off five with B.
G. Olson of Watson placing first in t
the list. Of ten prizes offered for f,
white corn in Region 1, the Mime |
sotans won four. John Henderson Of {
Cokato placing first and winning the S
for the region three times
in succession. Of % prizes offered
for white corn in Region 2, Mime 1
sota growers walked off with nine a
prizes running from the third down. o
D. 10
u. Prizes at Stock Show Foot Up S
81, 530-W. H. Peters, head of the fl
animal husbandry division, depart q
nent of agriculture, University of
has summarized the win a
lings of the university at the Inter- N
rational Livestock Show in Chicago. a
They amount to $3.50 in all; $3.50 n,
or beef cattle, $1,000 for hogs, and G.
$50 for the second best general ex- 81
libit of five steers, five barrows, and W
i've wethers. The winnings with beef al
attic are just about double the in
mount at first reported, IS prizes o.
aving been taken in this field instead pl
9. m
Hot Lunches at Noon Improve :,
chool Work-The serving of hot =
inches has been established in two :.
chools in Wadena county as the re- M
ult of extension work carried on by :.
ne university department of agri- ~
ulture. \,
At Verndale the practice has been :.
D successful that no longer is there -
ny question of lunches being served ~
he project is financed by fund nc
aised by, the school tax and every
hid &c occ,,roJ n ho4 xo0,, lunch