The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1926-02-25
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DEPARTMENT FOR THE AGRICULTURISTS
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and who may need help in starting to
grow alfalfa, the Blue Valley Cream
cry Institute, Chicago, is offering its
services. In cooperation with farm
ers, business men, county agricultural
, agents and others interested in agrl-
cultural development, the Institute is
ready, through its Alfalfa Clubs, to
assist communities where alfalfa can
and should be grown. Local farmers
planning to plant alfalfa or more al
falfa can get valuable aid in This
work from the county agricultural
agent and from the state agricultural
college or experiment station.
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Minnesota Leading In Ton-Litter
Work-What is said by H. G. Favor
al, livestock specialist at University
Farm, to have been the heaviest lit
ter of Hampshire pigs in the United
States was raised by Earl Lambert
of Lincoln county, Mimi. Thirteen
white belted pigs composing the lit
ter weighed 1887 pounds at the end
of $50 days.
Another outstanding achievement
of the 1925 to-litter contest in Min
nesota goes to the credit of Clarence
Kraft of Pennington, whose litter of
Duroc Jerseys weighed out the heav-
lest of any litter of that breed ever
produced in the United States. The
combined weight OF the SIX months
old litter was 4,121 pounds.
To Grace Luchsinger, club girl
of Lake Elmo, belongs the distinc-
ton of raising the heaviest aver
age Chester White litter. There were
10 pigs and the average weight was
3l4,i pounds at the end of $50 days.
Mr.. Zavoral is already making
plans for the 1926 ton-litter con-
test. Eighty-one filters in the
1925 contest in Minnesota weighed a
ton or more each. Production and
marketing of maximum weight in a
minimum time is the primary object
of ton-litter work. OF nine two-ton
filters reported in this country in
1925. Minnesota had two.
Indiana Appreciates Minota Oats
Yield-Rarmers of Adams, Clinton,
and other counties of Indiana are
sounding the praises of Minota oats,
variety developed several years ago
by plant breeders of the Minnesota
Experiment station. The news service
of the Indiana station reports that
! farmers who grew 20 acres of certi-
| fled Minotas had yield of IS bushels
an acre, which was Is bushels more
than yielded by any other variety in
the neighborhood. A group of five
| Indiana farmers in 1925 averaged So
bushels of Minota oats per acre, while
ordinary oats grown by five other
farmers in the same threshing ring
averaged So bushels per acre. Minota
is distributed in Indiana through the
Jurdue University Experiment sta
ton. The variety is still grown in
many parts of Minnesota. 1t is sur
passed by the newest Minnesota va
riety, Gopher oats, in earliness and
yield.
Rare Opportunity for Study of
Cooperation Minnesota people are
to have wonderful opportunity to
study cooperative methods and en-
terprises, say officials of the Amer
lean Institute of Cooperation which
will be held at University Farm, ST.
Paul, for four weeks beginning June
FL. Separate courses of from three to
six days duration will be given for
the study of the cooperative market
ing of grain, dairy products, live
stock, eggs, and potatoes. Tobacco,
cotton, fruit, and vegetable marketing
will also have places on the program.
| Glasses for regular instruction in
cooperative marketing will be held
the first two hours of the day. The
remainder of the forenoon and the
afternoon hours from to a 80 will
be used for addresses by noted au-
thorities from all parts of the country
and for round-table discussions led
by specialists.
Members of the program commit
tee at University Farm have already
drawn up tentative programs for
short courses in the management of
farmers elevators and the carrying on
of cooperative dairy enterprises.
Managers of elevators, operators of
creameries, in fact, all persons inter-
ested in these great industries, can
attend these courses by registering
and paying a nominal fee. There will
be no charge at all for the more
general sessions which will include
, regular evening meetings for the pub
lie.
The American Institute Of Co
operation is of recent origin and its
session was held last summer at the
University of Pennsylvania, Philadel-
phia. 1t is regarded as a tribute to
the cooperative forwardness of Min
nesota that the second session of this
great body was awarded this state.
Well Drillers Seek Change in Lien
Law-Members of the Minnesota
Well Drillers' association, holding
their fourth annual meeting at Uni
versity Farm, reelected M. ]. Spen-
Ger of Granada, president, and Sc
lected B. o. Clauson of Hadley, vice
president; F. H. Klemenhagen of
Renville, secretary, and F. A. Brown
of 7Fairmont, treasurer. The drillers
charged these officials with the duty
of pushing through the legislature a
bill which will permit Len to be
issued against a well drilled and not
paid for, rather than against the gen
eral property of the owner. Nine
men entered the contest to long splice
one-inch manila rope. o. l.. Johnson
of Osakis was first, M. F. Campbell
Of Tracy, second and 7. A. Tierney
of Atwater, third.