The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1925-07-16
BLUE VALLEY FARM SERVICE
By M. A. Nye

farmer, has three acres of as fine
new seeding of alfalfa as there is in
the country. 1t is seeded with oats
as nurse crop and Mr.. Gray says
he is figuring on cutting the oatss
for hay as soon as they head out.
This ground was worked to a per-
lection in preparing the seed bed.
Fifteen pounds of seed were sowed
per acre.
Mr.. Gray says he had some good
alfalfa started, but probably caused
it to winter kill by pasturing it too
much.
Alfalfa wants to be treated pretty
good at all times for permancy, but
it needs especially good treatment
the first year.
1t should not be cut or pastured in
any way that is going to take too
much from its winter top protection.
Alfalfa should always go into winter
with a good top growth.
Alfalfa should be cultivated every
year with a spring tooth after its root
system is once established. Cultiva-
ton helps it in many ways. 1t kills
weeds, forms a mulch, scatters inocu-
lation from one part of the field to
another, and loosens up the soil 81
the air can get down around thu
roots in better shape.
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Sam Ingram reports that he got ten
big loads off his first cutting al his
five acre piece of alfalfa. Mr.. In
gram says his system of making hay
is, "Not to cut any more down today
than you can take up tomorrow,
providing weather favorable"
Whoever wrote that song t'Too
Much Mustard" ought to have been
here to look around the countryside
this year. Wonder where all the
darned stuff comes from anyhow?
There is lot of room for better
cows around our Sank Centre COM
munity. Owning a good pure bred
bull is one good way to get heavier
producing cows for the future. At
tending good big cattle sales over the
state and adjoining states is another,
or buying them private sale.
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Emmeck Brothers of near West
Union, are making lot of fine al
falfa hay. They intend to make only
two cuttings. They want to make
some seed of the second cutting if it
turns out to be an alfalfa seed year
here.
The most favorable weather for the
production of alfalfa seed is fairly
dry weather, with moderate winds, es-
pecially when the blossoms are pole
mating.
For a good valuable Dairyman's
paper we highly recommend Hoard's
Dairyman, Fl. Atkinson, Wisconsin.
John Ebensteiner is just finishing
his painting and repair work on his
buildings which were damaged by
the storm. He is also right in alfalfa
hay making.
Mr.. Ebensteiner says his alfalfa
this year was not as heavy all over
as it should be, but he has re-seeded
it and believes by next year it will
be a perfect stand. He believes IN
top dressing alfalfa regularly.
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Ludwig Tillman and Sons are
pasturing 2O-3O acres of alfalfa this
summer. They also have this springs
seeding of acres.
Mr.. Tillman says, "There is no hay
like alfalfa"
Joe Tillman, southwest of Sank
Centre, has good acreage of alfalfa
and plans to raise more of it in the
future.
One View of Cow
Ordinarily we do not expect the
editor of a large metropolitan daily
to be much interested in cows, for he
has many other things to thing about.
Occasionally we find one who has
some cow knowledge or, at least, has
made some superficial observations
Recently the editor of the Balti-
more Sun made the dairy cow the
subject of an editorial. He views
this great foster mother of the hui
man race in little different manner
than the man who owns and cares fer
her. What he says is interesting ra.h-
er than informative, and we quote the
editorial which is as follows:
"The cow is a female quadruped
with an alto voice and countenance
in which there is no guilt. She col
laborates with the pump in the pro-
duction of liquid called milk, pro-
vides the filler for hash, and at las.
is skinned by those she has benefited,
as mortals commonly are.
"The young cow is called calf,
and is used in the manufacture of
chicken salad.
'The cows tail is mounted aft and
has a universal joint. 1t is used to
disturb marauding flies, and the tas-
sci on the end has unique educational
value. Persons who milk cows and
come aften in contact with the tassel
have vocabularies of peculiar and inn
pressive force.
"The COW has two stomachs. The