The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1925-01-01

DEPARTMENT FOR THE AGRICULTU

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Home Demonstration Office, Exten
sion Division, University Farm, st
Paul.
4 Annual No. 81 Features Beef Cat
tie and Hogs-That the baby bee
a producing industry has come to sta,
4 in Minnesota is the judgment of w
4 II. Peters, head of the animal hus
bandry division at University Farm
"While the three or four year ole
t steer was standard of excellence il
the beef carcass for many years,
says Mr.. Peters, "the fat yearline
! has won that prestige from him anC
: the consumer will likely stay by the
! baby beef standard permanently. The
method of marketing calves as fat
yearlings is adapted to many Mime.
sofa farms and is type of livestock
production that promises to develop
rapidly within the state.
Mr.. Peters and other university
men and many experienced livestock
| growers over the state are contribut-
ors to the new Minnesota Farmers
Institute Annual No. 81, entitled
"Beef Cattle and Hogs" The Annual
is book Of 160 pages clearly print
ed and well illustrated. Copies can
be obtained for 10 cents each to de-
fray postage by writing the Exten-
sion Division, University Farm, St.
Paul.
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Women of the State Invited to u.
Farm-The home economics depart
ment at University Farm is making
special preparations for interesting
and entertaining women of the state
who enroll for the Farmers and
Homemakers' Week Short Course De-
cember 20 to January 3. Evening
entertainments and noon day meet
ings will give variety and spice to the
full programs of Institutional work
provided for each day.
The dinner for homemakers only
will be served Thursday evening, JAN
uary 1. The big family supper party
for farmers, homemakers, and uni
versity people will be served Friday
evening, January 2. Mrs. Alice R. 4
Warren of Minneapolis, a university
regent, will be one of the speakers.
DR.. Nellie l.. Perkins, director of the
Wayne County Psychopathic Clinic,
Detroit, Mich, will speak on "Train-
ing for Parenthood," at the Wednes-
day evening meeting December 81.
She will be introduced by Miss Wylle
B. McNeal, chief Of the university
department of home economics.
Beginning Tuesday, December, 80,
faculty women of the university will
give lectures and demonstrations of
special interest to housewives. Many
problems encountered by homemak-
ers will be considered. DR.. Perkins
will give three talks on child train
ing, and Miss Isabel Bevier noted lee
turer on home economics, will speak
at four sessions on the business of
homemaking and the new farm home.
Dr. Smiley Blanton, who is in charge
of the Child Guidance Clinic of Min
neapelis, will give instruction in train
ing the emotional life of the child.
u. Will Provide Day Nursery for
children-Experienced child training
of the university will be in
charge daily of the nursery and play
room which will be maintained for the /,
care of infants and older children .
while their mothers are attending the
short course of farmers and home :.
makers at University Farm December
20 to January 8. Reservations for
his service should be made in adj !
vance by calling upon or writing :
Miss Wylle B McNeal, chief of the :
livision of home economics, Univer- !
ity Farm. :.
Best Flax Should Be Saved for c
Planting Minnesota grew 100000 a
'cres of flax in 1924. A. C. Army
# the farm crops division, University Z
Il Minnesota, says farmers of the $
tate should grow million acres Of g
AK in 1925. This will require three n
uarters of million bushels of seed. 7
Present high prices Of flax seed are
pparently prompting farmers to s
narket their crop, with strong prob a
bility that much good seed of wilt
esistant strains issbeing marketed for a
rushing that should be saved for .
eed. Mr.. Army says every farmer o
'ho has good flax seed of wilt resist r.
MT variety should hold it for plant Y
lg time next spring. AS the May o
ption prices for flax are higher than s.
resent prices, any surplus which re- Ia
lains after the crop is planted in e
925 may be then marketed at high al
rices.
Experimental results at university
atoms have demonstrated that in =
innesota it pays to sow three pecks y
good flax seed to the acre. The -
vo-year average increase in yield, =
lie to planting AZ pounds an acre ov- W
: planting % pounds of seed per se
re at six locations in the state, is -
t.8 pounds per acre or 30.8 pounds !,
r acre net. u
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