The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1925-10-15
DEPARTMENT. FOR THE ACRICULTURISTS
s*@**%*$xsxs.ss,.x.x..~*..x

stration contest.
! For the first time cattle judging
teams picked from boys attending
Smith-Hughes schools are taking part
in the judging contest. Minnesota is
represented by Charles and John
Chambers and Wayne Jones, all OF
Steele county. Harvey Kuchenbeck-
er of Owatonna has entered his pure
bred Holstein calf, which was placed
fir It IN Junior show at the state .a,r,
in the club cattle exhibit at the ma
tional.
| Varsity Foresters to Study Slash
Disposal-"Slash Disposal" is the
general subject adopted for the for
estry seminar which will meet We'd
nesday afternoon at University Farm.
The faculty of the division of for
estry and staff men of the Lake States
Forest Experiment station will lead
the discussions which will be partici-
lpated in by students of the school
| All the various aspects of the slash
disposal problem will be considered
in a series of nine meetings.
o.
Swine Men to Hear Indiana Spe-
cialist-Swine feeders of Minnesota
at the annual Swine Feeders Day,
University Farm, St. Paul, October
20, will hear an address by C. M.
Vestal, swine specialist of Purdue uni
versity, one of the country's authori-
ties on profitable hog-raising. His
subject will be "Some Profitable Prac-
Doic {hn,.
speaker will be Andrew Boss, vice
director of the Minnesota Experiment
station, who will discuss Sitting Hog
Production into the Farm Manage
ment Plan"
Results of practical tests carried on
through the year will be given by E.
F. Ferrin and M. A. McCarty of the
Minnesota animal husbandry division.
They will show groups of hogs, show
ing the Importance of protein supple
ments for young pigs; the effects of
full versus limited feeding of grain;
the differences in pasture crops; eff
fects of methods of watering and bar
ley as compared with corn.
The program will begin at 1000
A. M. and continue through the day
with an hour for lunch.
. n
School Lunch Should Have One Hot
Dish-Five requirements for the
school child's lunch, now that school
work has been resumed over the
state, are specified by Inez Hobart,
nutrition specialist of the agricultur-
al extension service of the University.
The lunch from home, she says,
should consist of sandwiches, fruit,
and sweet, like "a cookie, custard, or
sauce, all neatly packed in a lunch
box that may be scalded daily. One
hot dish should be prepared at school
by the pupils under the direction of
the teachers or mothers. Other re-
qulrements are at least one glass of
milk, generous supply of clean wat
er for drinking purposes and suffi-
Gent for washing hands, and a noon
hour long enough to allow 80 min
utes for the luncheon and time for
out of doors. eff your child lacks any
of these requisites" says Miss Hobart,
"a meeting of the Parent-Teacher as
ISOLATION of your schools should be
called to arrange for providing them,"
Gift Fund Aids Fire Protection
Studies-The Michigan State Depart
ment of Conservation has appropriat-
ed $500 for experimental work in the
three lake states by the Lake States
Forest station at University Farm.
The money will be used, says the head
of the station, in fire protection stu
dies and in an investigation of the
possibilities in the growth of popple
and other soft woods which spring up
on newly cutover lands.