The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1925-04-30
DEPARTMENT FOR f 1GRGUTURSS

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They are usually cheaper to install
than open bitches and are permanent
if good material is used and they
have been properly laid. All the es-
sentlals in planting farm drainage
system are discussed in this 71-page
| bulletin.
The construction end of farm
drainage is treated by Mr.. Roe in a
| second news bulletin, No. PIT, also
issued by the experiment station. The
facts presented in both bulletins are
based on practical experience of the
station drainage forces in surveying
designing and installing drainage sys.
TENS in whole or in part on more than
20 Minnesota farms.
While they last the two bulletins
will be sent free to persons who make
request of the Division of Publica-
tons, University Farm, St. Paul
Mimi.
State Veterinarians to Meet July
Is and 16-Many men eminent eth.
er in the practice or teaching of vet
Urinary medicine will take part in
the fourth annual short course and
the 9th semi-annual meeting of the
Minnesota State Veterinary Medical
association to be held at University
Farm, st. Paul, Wednesday anG
Thursday, July Is and 16.
College men from distant states
will have charge of the clinics. DIR
R. R. Dykstra of the veterinary col.
lege at Manhattan, Kansas, will con-
duct the horse clinic; DR.. w. F. Guard
of the veterinary college at Ames,
Iowa, the swine clinic; DR.. l.. Van Els
of the Nebraska station, the poultry
clinic, and DR.. w. j. Lentz of the
University of Pennsylvania, the small
animal clinic.
Among other speakers aready en-
gagged by DR.. G. P. Fitch of Univer-
sity Farm, secretary of the Mime
sofa association, are DR.. L. A. Meril-
lat, president of the American Veter-
mary Medical association; DR.. N. S.
Mayo of the Abbott laboratories in
Chicago; DIR. w. J. Embree of the
Western Weighing association, Chi
cago, and DIR. H. Jensen of Kansas
City. DR.. Embree will give an illus
trated address the evening of July
Is on 'Losses of Animals in Transit"
Dean w. C. Coffey of the Univer-
sity Department of Agriculture and
members of the veterinary staff at
University Farm will also have parts
on the program. DIR. B. l.. Cook of
Pennington, president of the state
association, will preside.
Hints for Housewife In Making
Curtains-Many questions arise in
the mind of the homemaker who
makes and hangs her own curtains.
In the following description of well
curtained windown in modest home,
there may be found suggestions which
will answer some of those questions.
This bedroom window is of average
size. The inner curtains are of wolfe,
hung on a solid quarter-inch rod,
with close bracket fixtures placed at
the inner top corners of the window
trim. The curtains are pushed back
on either side and hang straight to
the sill. A hem of three-quarters
inch is used at the top through which
the rod is run. The side and bottom
hens measure one and one-half inch
es. The amount of fullness is be-
tween one-third and one-half more
than the width of the window. Shrink
age has been allowed for by folding
in extra material in the top hem.
The cretonne curtains hang In
straight folds to the bottom OF the
apron. "Gooseneck" fixtures are
placed on the trim so that the ma
terial covers it completely at the top
and sides. They carry two rods, one
for curtain, the other for valance.
The curtains have one-inch hem at
the top and brass rings sewed on at
the bottom of the hem every three
inches. The side and bottom hens
measure two inches.
The valance was made with a hem
of two inches top and bottom. 1t was
then box-pleated and casing sewed
on at the bottom of the upper hem
for the rod. The valance is ten
inches deep and the two-inche pleats
are three inches apart.-Amy r.
Morse, home economics division, Uni
versity Farm.
Farm Spark Plugs-Entries for
the 1925 ton litter contest will close
May l., So A5Sk
Much of the winter killing of Glow
err can be avoided by sowing native
red clover seed only.
More than 60 per cent OF farm
grown feeds are marketed through
livestock. A scrub COW is a poor
market for this feed, while good
cow has no superior as such market.
Well made soybean hay has about
the same feeding value as alfalfa hay
and one or the other should be used
whenever possible. Soybeans may be
sown as late as June L.
The formaldehyde plan of treating
seed potatoes is described in extern
sion circular No. % by r. G. Rose.
Ask Office of Publications, University
Farm, for a copy.
The principal perennial vegetables
are asparagus and ruhbarb. Twelve
hills of asparagus are about the min
imum to plant for small family, say
horticulturists at University Farm
Only a few hills of rhubarb are need
ed.
New York was the leading potato
producing state in 1924 with Mime
sofa second, Maine third, Michigan
fourth, Wisconsin fifth, and Pennsyl-
vania sixth. New York's production
was 46,620,000 bushels and Mime
ta's 44,352,000 bushels.
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Grass Seed Consumers Advised to
Mix Own-So much poor quality
grass seed is sold over counters that
seed analysts at University Farm adj
visa I1sarS RI b,1v hluaoracS radt0n