The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1926-01-21

she says. Thus communities taking
the poultry project this year report
100 poultry houses built or improved.
This just about doubled the results
obtained in 1924 and is four times
those of 1923. A similar advance
was made in culling with $40 fiocks
culled in 1925 as against 388 in 1924
and ITO in 1928. Three or four
times as; many new feed hoppers and
water fountains were installed this
year as last year.
All this progress, says Miss Cooke,
is largely due to the fact that local
leader work has become well estab-
lished.
Minnesota Grains Lead In Ger
man Test-Word comes from the
agricultural department of the Ger.
man Potash Syndicate of Berlin, that
Gopher oats and Manchuria barley
No. 184 have demonstrated their SUI
periority over native and other va
rieties of similar grains under like
tests in the bleak mountainous .coun-
try separating Germany from Aus
tria.
Experiment station in the province
of Silesia. Gopher oats yielded IL
times the amount of seed sown and
were ready for emitting August %, or
two weeks tc month earlier than
other varieties in the same test
Manchuria barley returned yield OF
IA fold and was also ready for cut
ting August %. This yield was sew
eral times the yield of other barleys
used in the trials. The station di-
rector writes that all the grain sam
Piles were sown April ID. The sea-
son was late one, and the year in
general was wet, cold, and bleak, ne
adds.
Gopher Minnesota No. 674 is an
open-panicled, white-seeded, early
maturing oat having a stiq straw,
and was produced at the Minnesota
Experiment station from head Sc
lection. Manchuria barley is six
rowed, bearded variety, produced at
the Minnesota station from head
selection to meet various Minnesota
conditions.
60 Institutes Planned for Present
Winter-On Tuesday, January g.
six weeks of farmers institutes will
be begun by two teams of speakers,
The first Institutes will be held at
Benson, Swift county, by Frank w.
White and E. w. Smith, and at Wan
amingo, Goodhue county, by A. j.
Olson and w. A. Dickson. Each
team will conduct five institutes a
week. Forty-fve counties will have
Institutes. The four men are farm
owners themselves and have had
practical experience and training in
the production of livestock, in dairy
farming, the growing of alfalfa, po-
tatoes and farm crops of all kinds
One-day institutes only will be held
with sessions from 1000 A. M. to
12 100 M. and 1 80 P. M. to 100 P.
M.
Well Drillers Like to Meet at "U'
Farm-Three years ago Minnesota
we'll drillers organized state as
ISOLATION at University Farm, st.
Paul, and have since held all their
annual meeting there. Announce
ment is now made that the fourth
annual convention of the association
will be held at the farm February g.
10, and II.
Not. only we'll drillers but farmers
and any others who plan to put in
new wells or water systems are in
vited to the meeting. Three men
from the University of Minnesota
are on the program, and an attorney
at law will explain 'The Lien Laws
How They Affect the Well Drill
ers."
William Boss, chief of the division
of agricultural engineering of the
university, will be POSTMASTER at the
annual banquet, and it is now ex-
pected that o. B. Mienzer of the
United States Geological Survey will