The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1925-04-16
SAUK CENTRE ALFALFA CLUB
MEMBERS TO Tpv THINGS OUT
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the idea which is being put in prac-
tice by members of the Sank Centre
10000 Acre Alfalfa Club.
At committee meeting of the
Club at the Sank Centre Community
Club rooms last Saturday several
members agreed to try certain things
with Alfalfa as demonstrations for
their Alfalfa Club and for the whole
terested in Alfalfa growing.
Ed Schurman who lives east of
Sank Centre will try out a very
thorough experiment. on the inocula-
ton of Alfalfa which should prove
valuable for all Sank Centre Alfalfa
growers.
Seven acres of Alfalfa are being
put in this spring on the Schurman
farm, acres with Grimm seed and z
acres with Northern common seed.
Of the acres of Grimm, one acre
will be left uninoculated, one acre
will be inoculated with dirt taken
from inoculated alfalfa roots and z
acres will be inoculated with govern
ment pure culture incubator. One
acre of the common alfalfa also will
be inoculated with dirt ana one Win
pure culture. The stands, size OF
plants, yields, etc., will be kept track
of on these different plots for the
next two or three years and results
of the incubation noted.
The affect of cultipacker on SAN
DIV land with alfalfa is being tried by
several men, among whom are Nick
Bromenschenkel, H. Iwinski, Ralph
Steffes, George Grundman and Ben
Otte. Stripes are being left un-
rolled by these men on their Alfalfa
seedlings and the results between the
cultipacked and uncultipacked will
be noted. :,
Last year lime stone was applied
to alfalfa ground on the George
Grundman and Paul Kruger Farms.
This year the results of this lining
should show up. One or two Sank
Centre Alfalfa Club members this
year are trying lime on a small plot
of their alfalfa ground which is sandy
and slightly acid.
All acid soil found so far around
Sank Centre has been sandy soil.
The lime stone has leached from this
during the past centuries and many
must now replace this lime stone. If
soil is acid, the chances are ten to one
that it will have to be lined at the
rate of tons per acre before it will
grow alfalfa.
R. G. Penrose is trying out dem
onstration this year on his alfalfa seed
bed. He is putting out acres of
alfalfa this spring. Half of it was
spring plowed. The other half was
just disced and not rlowed. This
ought to show the difference if any
between these two ways of preparing
ground for Alfalfa. II
A couple other demonstrations To-
Gated by the club are the trying of
some southern common seed in this
locality and the rate of seeding a
nurse crop. A nurse crop seeded too
heavy isn't fair to alfalfa. The alfal-
fa's growth is checked and in many
cases it is killed. 1t is much cheap
er to take sacrifice on your nurse
crop yield and make sure of getting
your alfalfa stand.
Ton Litter Contest Gets a GOOD
Start-Under the stimulus of better
prices and a brighter outlook Mime
sota's pig race, or second annual ton
litter contest, is gathering momen-
tum every day. So many enroll
ments have already been received that
H. G. Zavora of University Farm
predicts a larger number than last
yaer.
The Farmer of St. Paul will pre-
sent gold watches to the club boy, the
club girl, and the novice farmer rails.
ing the heaviest filters in the state
The novice farmer" is one who has
not heretofore fitted a pig for show
or sale for breeding purposes. Farm
Stock and Home & Northwest Farm
stad are offering trip either to the
National Swine Show or to the Inter
national in Chicago for the producer
of the heaviest litter. 1t will alst
give gol medal to the producer OF
the heaviest litter in each county pro-
viding the litter makes ton weight
or more within the prescribed 18C
days.
Cash prizes of severa hundred dol
lars, contributed by breed associa
lions and other interests, will be di
vided among the winners next fall
Various organizations and groups Of
business men over the state are of
fering prizes in order to encourage
pork production in their localities
Members of the Minnesota ton litter
cOmlIlCCee lnVlCe Help VI ILLS hlIlu.
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New Fumigant Found By Univer
sity -Chloropicrim, which wal
used as tear gas in the World War
is highly effective as a fun1igant fol
-four mills and elevators when IL is als
tributed by means of high pressure
atomizer, according to tests made by
university men.
R. N. Chapman, University of Min
nesota entomologist and biologist, as
sisted by A. L. Strand, has prepared
directions for atmozing chloropicrir
in the elevators and machinery o.
flour mills. Repeated experiments il
the mills of Minneapolis have demon
strated that flour moths and beetles
can be kept under control by single
spraying every two weeks.
Under the hydrocyanic acid ga
method it cost about $40 for mater
ials to fumigate plant of the size O
4he states experimental mill in Min
neapois. The building to be fumi
gated has to be made as nearly al
tight as possible. Complete fumiga
ton, is necessary once a year ant
sometimes twice year. Costs OF tn