The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1925-06-25

clover sometimes have to be starved
a little until they start eating II ana
yat used to the taste OF 1t. Ihere
shonId be enough stock on SWEEP
clover to keep it pastured down SO II
won't become too high and woody.
NOW WHAT DO YOU THINK
OF ALFALFA-READ THIS
.sThe cultivation and feeding OF
alfalfa mark the highest deVeiopmens
of our modern agriculture. AlIalia
is enc of Natures cholsest gl1ts "
man. 1t is the preserver ana tne con-
sewer of the homestead. IL Is pc
culiarly adapted to a country VIII d
republican government, Tor II sniiiG e.
alike on the rich and the poor; IL
does not fail from old age. IL loves
the sunshine, converting the sunpeams
into gold coin in the pockets OF tie
thrifty husbandman. 1t is the great
est mortgage litter yet discovered.
"The Alfalfa plant furnishes the
nrotein to construct and repair the
brains of statesmen. 1t builds up the
mr scles and bones of war-horse, an
oives his rider sirews of iron. Al
falfa makes the hens cackle and the
turkeys gobble. 1t induces the pigs TO
soueal and grunt with satisfaction
# causes the contented COW to give
nailfuls of creamy milk, and the
shorthorn and white-faced steers to
bawl for the feed rack. Alfalfa soft,
tens the disposition OF the cols ana
hardens his bones and muscles. IL
fattens lambs as no other feed, ana
promotes a wool that is verltable
golden fleece. 1t coMpels sklm-mlik
calves to make gains of two POUNDS
per day 1t helps the farmer to pro-
duce pork at a cent and a half
pound and beef at two cents.
"Alfalfa transforms the upland
farm from a sometime waite OF gull
lied CLAW banks into an undulatlng
meadow fecund with plant food.
II drills for water working 365 days
in the year without any recompense
from man. The labor it performs IN
penetrating the sub-soil is enormous
No other agricultural plant leaves the
soil in such good physical condltlon
as alfalfa. 1t prospects beneatn the
surface of the earth and Or lngs her
hidden treasures to the light OF DAY,
1t takes the earth, air moisture ana
sunshine, and transmutes them INTO
nourishing feed stuffs and into tlnts
of green and purple, and into nectar
anG sweet perfumes alluring me
busv bees to visits of reciprocity,
whereon they caress the alfalfa
blossoms, which in their turn, pour
ont secretions of nectar fit for Jupiter
to sip. 1t forms partnership with
nicro-organisms of the earth by
which it is enabled to enrich the soil
upon which it feeds. 1t brings gold
into the farmers purse by processes
more mysterious than the alchemy OF
old. The farmer with 50-acre
meadow of alfalfa will have steady,
ENJOYABLE employment from July to
October; for as soon as ne has nm
ished gathering the hay at one end
of the field it will be again ready Tor
the mower at the other. The homes
surrounded by fields of alfalfa have
an esthetic advantage unknown to
those where the plant is not grown.
The alfalfa meadow is clothed with
purple and .geen and it exhales frag-
rant balmy odors throughout the
growing season to be waited by the
breezes into the adjacent farm hous-
es."
by the late Mr.. Coburn of Kansas. }
Campaign Planned Under Purnell
Act-Under the national program OF
research provided by the new Purnell
act seven projects involving the prob
lens of surplus production on farms
and the marketing of farm products
were recommended to the various ag-
ricultural experiment stations by
committee which met recently at
Washington, d. c.
According to DR.. j. d. Black OF the
University Department of Agricul-
ture, who represented Minnesota at
the committee meeting, the subjects
proposed for investigation are the
marketing of grain, livestock and
meats, fruits and vegetables, dairy
products, and cotton, or five different
projects; cooperative marketing, and
consumer areas. The investigational
work will be apportioned among the
stations in such manner that duplica-
fion of effort will be avoided.
Dean Thomas Cooper of the Ken
lucky station, formerly of Minnesota,
was chosen chairman of the commit
tee. Among college and station men
taking part in the deliberations were
Mumford of the Illinois Agricultural
College, Kilgore, of the North Caro-
lima Experiment Station, Coulter OF
North Dakota Arnett Of Montana,
Warren of Cornell, Hibbard OF Wis