The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1926-10-21
DEPARTMENT FOR THE ACRICUL TURISTS

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Tuesday, December ID.
Creamery operators planning to
attend this course should communi-
cate at once with w. B. Combs at
University Farm, st. Paul.
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University and Fair to Start Wind
break Cooperating with the forester
of the agricultural extension service
OF the university, officials of the Min
nesota State Fair and Northwest
Dairy Exposition have authorized
the establishment of a windbreak
demonstration planting north of the
state exhibit building ON the grounds
at Hamline. The fair board has be-
gun fitting the land and trees; the
object is to impress upon state fair
visitors THE value of windbreak for
the farmstead, the species of trees
suitable for the purpose, and plant
ing arrangement which will give the
best results in providing a shelter
belt and lumber for farm uses. Pine,
spruce and various hardwoods, with
quick growing popple for nurse
crop, will be planted.
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Time to Make Plans for Handling
Woodlot-F'armers who have woodlots
should make arrangements now for
the saving of needed material this
winter, says Parker D. Anderson,
forester with the agricultural extern
sion service, University of Mime
sofa. "Plan your cut on good farm
forestry basis SO as not to diminish
the principal" he says. NEARLY
every farm forest has some mature
trees that might well be cut the COM
ing winter for lumber needed for re-
pairs on barns, sheds, and other
buildings" The forester also says
that saw logs cut between this date
and late winter will be in better con-
dition than those cut in spring or
summer.
Farming Business in Western
Minnesota Studied-With the object
of Analysing agriculture and the
farming business in west central Min
nesota, j.. F. Carey of the farm man.
agement section at University Farm
and six student assistants spent "a
week in Stevens county while OBJ
tanning data by the survey method on
operations on approximately 100
farms from July 1, 1925, to the cor
responding date in 1926. County
Agent Irving w. Meade co-operated
with the university delegation in get
tting itemized information as to the
size of the farms, acres in crops,
yields, kinds and amounts of live
stock, usese to which crops are put
sources of income, expenses, etc. The
records will be summarized at the
University Farm headquarters and
used to- supplement types of farming
studies which are carried on by Mr..
Carey. Similar surveys and studies
have been made in other parts of the
state.
Mimi. Judging Teams Make Good
Records-The dairy cattle judgment
team representing the Minnesota Col
lege of Agriculture won fifth place
in the contest staged at the National
Dairy Show at Detroit, Michigan.
Teams We're entered from 26 states
and one province in Canada. The
high winners were: South Dakota
first, Ontario second, Oregon third,
and Cornell fourth. The Minnesota
team ranked third in judging Jerseys,
sixth in judging Ayrshires, eleventh
in judging Holsteins, and twentieth
in judging Guernsey.
The Minnesota team was composed
of four college seniors, Harold Peter
son of Franklin, Harold Alton of
Grand Rapids, Mauritz Sterner of
Minneapolis, and Stanley Morrill, of
St. Paul. They were coached by Will
liam E. Petersen and O. G. Schaefer
of the dairy division staff at .Univer-
sity Farm.
Of Fl teams taking part in the
cattle Judging competition for junior
club members Minnesota's team of
boys-Kenneth Anderson of Hen
nepin county, Harold Larson OF
Brown county, and Glen Schaefer of
Hubbard county-stood eighth. The
Iowa team was first, Maryland sec
ond, Kansas third, North Dakota
fourth, and Missouri fifth. John
Gleason off Austin, Mimi, made the
highest individual score in the judg-
ing contest conducted by the federal
board of vocational education, and
was awarded a $500 scholarship.
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