The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1925-09-10
Beware Hen With Early Fall Gown

Beware Hen With Early Fall Gown
Minnesota Farmers Told.Beware OF
the hen with the early fall gown. That
good looking strutter in her brand
new September suit has been shying
away from domestic obligations in the
nest, and it is worth the price of a
complete new set of incubating and
brooding equipment to ninety out OF
every one hundred farmers wives to
have this barnyard vamp culled out
of the flock.
That's the word that is being pas
.sed out among Minnesota poultry rails
ers by the Blue Valley Creamery In
sititute. Each matured pullet and
laying hen in this county should re-
turn a yearly labor income of S1.20
per layer, farm records show, and
this is practically impossible unless
the poor layers and the under sized,
narrow-chested, knock-kneeded flap
per in this years pullet crop, are dis
posed of by September Is. 1t is the
late melting hen without beauty prob
lens to distract her that sticks close
to the nest, states the Institute, and
the fact that hen is encloaked in her
new dress is almost a sure sign that
she has been a poor layer in the past
year and she is not likely to improve
in the coming winter.
As aid to poultry raisers in the
state who would Gull out the unprotlt-
able fowls from the fiocks, the lnsti-
fute makes these suggestions: Gull
on hens having small, hard, dried-up
combs; hens unnaturally light IN
weight, listless or persistently broody;
hens having rigid or gristly pelvic
bones, hooked or close together; hens
having fatty, hard or contracted alb
domens; and hens that mott early.
Yearling or older hens in breeds hav-
ing yellow leg, skin and beak color
that has faded out in color pigment
can also be marked down as having
been poor layers and acted upon &C
cordingly.
Minnesota u. Professor to Teach
In Radio Farm School-Labor Day
this year will also be School Day for
Minnesota farm families who have ra-
>dio sets. On September the clang
of the school bell will summon them
to the reopening of the Radio Farm
School of the Blue Valley Creamery
Institute otter a two-month "Vaca-
ton" during which time the farmer
students had an opportunity of put
ting into practice the things they had
learned regarding their business in
the spring term.
The initial bell will ring over seven
stations between twelve and one
o'clock. From Monday to Friday
hereafter, for a ten-minute period
each day, there will be lecture on
some important farm topic by a ma
tionally known farm authority. The
stations from which the farm courses
will be broadcast are woo, Daven-
port, Ia; xxx, Hastings, Nebr. !;
iWMAQ, Chicago; WDAY, Fargo, N.
Oak. KFRU, Bristow, Okla. WEAR,
Cleveland, O.; WEAU, Sioux City, la.
Among those who will form the fac
ulty of the school are A. C. Baer,>
professor of Dairy Husbandry, Okla
homa A. & M. College; J. B. Fitch,
professor of Dairy Husbandry, Kan
sas Agricultural College; L. H. Fair
child, professor in dairying, Purdue
University; Prof. John M. Evvard,
the "Hog Man of Ames," of the Iowa
State Agricultural College; Prof. A.
G. Philips, poultry expert of Purdue
University; Prof. H. M. Kildee, of
the Iowa State Agricultural College
Prof. o. M. Reed, of Michigan Agri-
cultural College; Prof. ]. R. Rice, of
the North Dakota Agricultural Col
lege, DIR. C. H. Eckles of the Univer-
sity of Minnesota; Hugh G. Van Pelt,
noted breeder and feeder; Prof. o. F.
Hunziker of Chicago; Prof. A. G..
Ragsdale, of the University of Mis-
souri,, Prof. Oscar Err, of Ohio State
University-all dairy experts; Prof.
W. l.. Burlison and Prof. J. C.
Hackleman of the University of Illi-
nois, alfalfa and soybean experts.
Preliminary to the formal opening
of the school special lecture was
scheduled for Friday evening, Sep
TENDER 4, when DR.. H. j. Waters, ed
itor of the Kansas City Weekly Star
had as his subject: "Will it Pay
the Farm Boy to go to SCHOOL," DR..