The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1925-04-30

seeds OF sheep Sorrel, black Seedet
plantain, five-6nger, yarrow, buck
horn pantain, healall, common chick
weed, and mouse cared chickweed II
seed mixtures now being sold to home
owners in the northwest. Some Cd
these weeds are regular terrors anC
in time can destroy the finest lawns
Cut prices or low prices for grass
seed usually mean poor quality seed
1t is better to pay more and get gooo
goods. And it is till better to buy the
three kinds of seeds needed separate.
ly and mix your own. For large seed
ings some other coarser and cheaper
grass seeds may be added, such as
less than 10 per cent of either timo
| thy or perennial rye grass.
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University Farm Gets 1925 State
Conference-So pleased were they
with University Farm as meeting
place last year that officials of the
Minnesota State Conference and In.
stitute of Social Work announce thai
the 1925 meeting will also be held al
the farm. The dates selected are
September 20 to 26. Judge A. w.
Johnson of Albert Lea is president
and Mrs. Robbins Gilman of Mime
apolis secretary treasurer. Speakers
of national reputation will attend tn.
conference to which all state organi.
cations doing educationa or welfare
work will be invited to send delega
tons. Problems of the family, the
child, neighborhood, health, and delin
quency will be discussed.
a.
Gopher Stronghold Wristbands At
enthusiastically poor results from
the use of calcium cyanide in expert.
ments in poisoning pocket gophers
are reported by F. l.. Washburn ano
Clarence E. Nickel, University Farm
entomologists, who last year conduct.
ed five different trials in gopher in.
tested fields of sand and clay neal
New Brighton, Ramsey County. Not
only was a very low percentage OF
effectiveness obtained from the use
of both calcium cyanide flakes and
calcium cyanide GA" dust, but the
cost was found to be many times
greater than the cost of poison veg
etable bats. Several methods of ap-
plying the calcium cyanide to the
runways were used, but no particular
one appeared to have any advantage
over the others.
Sex of Egg Cannot Be Told By Its
Form, Institute Finds-The Sex OF
the chick to come cannot be foretold
by the shape of the egg, says a
statement of the Blue Valley Cream
cry Institute. The statement is in
rent among many that round eggs
tended to correct an impression cur
will consistently hatch pullets and ex-
ira long eggs a greater proportion OF
cockerels.
While neither "sex detector" nor
the formation of the eggs is true
guide to the sex of the embryo chick,
it is possible to distinguish male and
female chicks Immediately after
Matching if certain breeds are crossed
the Institutes statement continues
This is known as the sex-linked char.
acteristic principle which enables
identification of male and female
chicks resulting from the mating OF
males of certain breeds with females
of certain other breeds. Just as the
color blindness of the father among
humans is transmitted only to his
daughters and by these in turn only
to their sons, in poultry breeding
with certain colored breeds some prin-
ciple of heredity makes it possible
to know the sex of the chicks by the
color of their downy coats.
"When Buff Plymouth Rock male
is mated with a Barred Plymouth
Rock female, all the pullets from
such a mating will be buff and all
sons barred" the Institutes statement
says. GIN other words, the daughters
inherit the fathers buff color and
all the sons the mothers barred pat
tern. From this mating, Matching
time will find approximately half the
chickens buff and the other hall
dark, the buff chicks being all females
and the dark ones all males. The
pullets can, then be retained for egg
production and in most cases they
will be found to be especially strong
and vigorous. But under no circum.
stances should such cross-bred poul
try be used as breeders; only pure.
breds should be used to make the
crosses. :"
Farm Spark Plugs-Friday May
has been proclaimed Arbor Day by
Governor Christianson.
Long rows in gardens are said tt