The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1926-04-08
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Good Returns From Cloquet Tree
Crop-Further regulated cutting of
! timber at the Cloquet forest station
was carried on again the past winter
and afforded an interesting demon
stration of scientific logging methods.
From about 40 acres of the 5000
comprising the station, $4,000 feet of
logs, 80 cords of pulpwood, and 300
cords of firewood were taken. The
logs sold for $24 thousand and the
pulpwood for 81 cord to the mills
at Cloquet. The frewood brought
$3.50 cord in the woods.
The logs came principally from
mature jack pine, the pulpwood from
jack pine and spruce, and the fire.
wood was mostly dead tamarack
from low lying land. About as much
standing timber was left as was talk
en- off. Norway pine was generally
left for further growth.
As the cutting progressed all the
brush and debris were disposed of
and the ground left in good. condi-
tion for the further growth of the
tree crop.
Seed Corn Grown Near Home Is
Best.-Word comes from one county
agent that representatives of east
ern concerns are trying to sell seed
corn in Minnesota. Farm crops men
of the university agree that seed
grown near home usually produces
the best crop. Seed from outside the
state has not been acclimated and
may, therefore, not be adapted to
Minnesota temperatures, length of
growing season, rainfall, sunshine,
etc. The Minnesota Crop Improve
ment association, University Farm,
st. Paul, handles certified seeds and
will send its list on application.
Scientists Coming to Study emo
sale" Here-Members of the Central
States Advisory Plant Board, of
which A. G. Ruggles of University
Farm is president, are planning a
tour of southern Minnesota, northern
Iowa, and southwestern Wisconsin in
June for the purpose of studying the
mosaic disease in raspberry paintings
At recent meeting of the board at
Urbana, Illinois, committee was ap-
pointed to report at the next meet
ing on the matter of regular green
house inspection service. Many in
sects are propagated in greenhouses
and eventually spread to plants and
flowers in gardens and fields. Some
of the states, including Minnesota,
have no such inspection service.
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Impure Seeds Are a Tax on Farm
ers-Clean seed and clean land will
help the farmers of the northwest to
save hundreds of thousands of dollars
this year, according to a statement
just issued by the extension division,
department of agriculture of the Uni
versity of Minnesota.
The statement referred to prints
figures obtained from G.. P. Bull,
weed commissioner of the State De-
partment of Agriculture, to the eff
feet that more than $675,OOO was
paid by farmers for threshing the
dockage of Minnesota, North Da-
kota, South Dakota, and Montana in
a single year, and that more than
$8OO,O00 was paid for shipping the
same stuff to market.
1t is further estimated that on the
basis of the average acreage of wheat
in Minnesota for the last five years,
the total loss imposed by unclean seed
and unclean land runs to 31,900,000.
Losses of great amount in the
growing of other crops occur in the
same way.
Specialists at the Minnesota Ex-
pertinent Station advise the planting
of clean seed in clean land.
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Eggs a Real Food On Amy Day In
Year-Eggs contain protein which
builds muscles, fat that gives heat and
energy, vitamins A and B so essen
tial to growth and development, and
minerals which are necessary to the
body, say students of nutrition and
therefore, be eaten not only on May
1, National Egg Day, but on every
day. Even one egg (no harm in
two or three) and one serving of
meat in single days diet will pro-
vide protein to build tissues and re-
pair waste.
New Dairy Chemistry Manual
From U. of M.-'tLaboratory expert
ments in Dairy Chemistry" is the title
of a new manual, written by DR.. L.
S. Palmer, professor of agricultural
biochemistry at the University of
Minnesota, which will be brought out
in April in the Wiley Agricultural
Series. The manual is designed for
college laboratory classes, and the
material of which it is composed has
been used by DIR. Palmer in his class
work at University Farm. The au-
thor's experience includes work in
the dairy division of the United States
Department of Agriculture, in the
cooperative laboratory, and as an as
sistant professor at the University of
Missouri, and for the last six years at
the University of Minnesota.
Another Big National Meeting for
u. Farm-Faculty women of the
home economics division at Univer-
sity Farm are assisting in the de-
velopment of program for the an
nual convention of the American
Home Economics association to be
held in the Twin Cities June i8 to
July 2. Although this is the 10Th
annual meeting it will be the first
time the association has met in Min
nesota. In 1925 the convention was
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