The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1925-04-02

cannot be outdoors, the windows
should be opened at the bottom so as
to allow the entrance of the suns
rays without interference.
Green stuff such as clover sods that
have been grown in the sunshine,
yolks of eggs laid by hens that have
been on range, and crude cod liver
oil, fed at about 1 to per cent OF
the ration, will help to make up for
the lack of sunshine, but most poul-
try keepers will prefer to use sun
shine whenever possible - Cora
Cooke, extension poultry specialist,
University of Minnesota.
Hay Grade Hearing Called At cur
Farm-Dealers in hay, producers OF
hay, and all other persons interested
are invited to attend public hearing
at University Farm, St. Paul, April
Fl, for the purpose of considering
grades for wild hay and also for
Johnson hay, as it is known in the
south. w. A. Wheeler, chief of the
division of hay, feeds, and seeds of
the federal bureau of agricultural
economics, and E. C. Parker of the
same division, will conduct the hear
ing which will open at 80 p. m. in
the old dairy hall at the farm. 1t is
expected grades will be adopted and
promulgated by July 1. Information
on alfalfa hay grades will be present
ed at the meeting. Preliminary in
tensive work for the establishment of
hay grades began in 1920. Since then
grades have been worked out for tim
othy and clover and are now in use in
many markets of the country.
Kitchenette Squash Seed Short
This Year-Gardners planning to
grow the Kichenette squash are adj
vised by horticulturists at University
Farm to get seed without delay. An
apparent shortage is attributed to
last years short crop caused by the
late spring and the cool weather
which prevailed through the season.
Dealers in Chicago and elsewhere re-
port a shortage of the seed. The kit
chenttte was developed by university
horticulturists. 1t is a small sized
Hubbard, weighing from three to
five pounds, and is regarded as the
ideal family squash.
Other varieties recommended by
university gardeners are DesMoines
(called by some Table Queen) and
the Banana squash, so called because
of it's shape. The Des Moines has thin
skin and grows to the size of a large
cantaloupe. The Banana has excel
lent quality and natures as early as
any of the varieties. Both are good
keepers.
Alfalfa In Crop Scheme a Sure
Money Maker, Says Institute-Min-
nesota farmers who do not take adj
vantage of alfalfa and other soil
building plants in their crop scheme
are depriving themselves of profits
that they might we'll reap, according
to the Blue Valley Creamery Insti-
tue, which finds that while the trend
of alfalfa production is upward it is
not displacing timothy and mixed
grasses rapidly enough considering
the vast areas in the state still de-
voted to these less profitable forage
crops. Only 100000 acres in the
state are in alfalfa as compared with
$4,000 acres Of timothy, despite the
fact that the latter will yield only
1 SO tons of hay to the acre to the
formers 2.7 tons, the Institute states.
Use of imported alfalfa seed total
ly unsuited to corn belt and northern
states conditions is believed by the
Institute to explain the rather timid
progress in acreage being made by
this richest of hays. The use of the
wrong kind of seed has caused losses
of $50,000,000 during the past five
years to farmers in those sections and
has probably been the most important
single factor in working against a
more rapid spread of this highly val
liable crop. Alfalfa seed from mild
climate countries or even from our
own southwest may terminate well
enough and make a good growth dur
ing the first summer, but when heavy
freezing weather comes the weakness
of the imported seed becomes ap-
parent. The stand shows up thin
and sickly the following spring and
the disguised farmer usually plows
it up.
Properly adapted alfalfa seed will
bring increased returns in yield, feed
value and soil enriching qualities, ac-
cording to the Institute, which points
out that alfalfa not only produces the
greatest volume of hay but also ex-
cells timothy in that it produces three
times as much digestible feed per
acre. AS feed for dairy cows, a
ton of homegrown alfalfa is practic-
ally worth ton of boughten bran,
and many farmers are overlooking the
fact that they can use the land they
own or rent on a fve-year lease to
produce a ton of alfalfa for from
$500 to $1,000 ton that has feed
ing value of feed costing $4,000 a
ton; 377 Wisconsin farmers grow
ing alfalfa showed an average net
profit per farm of $1,000 a year,
while 511 farms with no alfalfa acre
age showed net profit of but $728,
according to the Institute.
Sleepy Eye Plans are being made
for the organization Of canoe club
here. If the arrangements are com
pleted soon it is expected that this
summer big get-together session OF
the New Ulm, Mankato and Sleepy
Eye canoeists will be conducted here
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