The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1926-07-22

Army SutWOfm MONS Inv0oln8
Minnesota-Farmer and housewives
in western Minnesota have complain
ed this summer of plague of moths,
and have felt some alarm lest the ap-
pearance of the pest meant the break
ing loose Of some kind Of crop or
household pest.
1t turns out now. according to w.
C.. Cook, one Of the insect pest special
iEts Of the Depart :neEt of Agriculture
of the University Of Minnesota, that
the moths are the adults of the west
ern army cutworm which sometir es
does damage to wheat IN Montana,
Colorado, Nebraska, aud other states.
]. is believed to have made It's way
into Minnesota on the prevailing
west winds.
Just what the intruder will do in
Minnesota can not be foretold,
Mimi. County Agent in Service 10
Ye.rs-Because their work is so
complicated and arduous, the aver
in this country ranges only between
two and three years. But F. E..
Krause has just completed decade
of continuous county agent service in
Faribault county. Mr.. Krause's re-
cord is, therefore, more than three
times better than that made by the
average county agent. Rejecting the
sentiment of Faribault county farm
ers and business men, Jesse l.. Her
ring, county auditor says: ''It would
be mistake for Faribault county to
be without the county agent service. !"
L. M. Hill of Vernon township says:
"The extension service is the most
potent influence for agriculture in
our county,"
Farmers and Potato Men Inspect
Fields-A. G. Tolaas and R. C. Rose
of the state department of agricul-
ture and the extension service at Uni
yersity Farm began this week series
of visits to respective potato districts
of the state, to guide farmers and
others in a study of methods and
practices of potato production and
protection from diseases and pests.
The first visits were to potato areas
at Hollendale July % and %. Sat-
urday, July "a, the University Farm
fields were inspected; Monday, July
&c, fields of certified seed stock in the
vicinity of Bemidji and Tuesday, July
27, the potato areas between Crooks
ton and East Grand Forks were under
investigation.
In Beltrami and Polk counties in
terest will attach to the results COM
ing from testing potatoes for diseases
before planting in seed potato plots
Sugar Beet Pest Gets Into State
An insect which sometimes causes
great damage to sugar beets has been
found in Lyon and Redwood cCun-
beet webworm.
C. E. Nickel and w. G.. Cook, in
sect pest specialist of the Department
of Agriculture, University of Mime
sofa, were called to the counties nam
ed to investigate with regard to
worms which farmers reported had
appeared in their corn. They found
that the worm was the sugar leet
webworm, just stopping for lunch N
the corn on their way to other feeding
more to their liking.
Tt seems that the sugar beet web
worm is also fond of pigweed and
Russian thistles, and Mr.. Nickel and
Mr.. Cook believe that the worms in
the corn were simply migrating from
one weed plot to another.
The webworm feeds on the leaves
of the beets, retarding growth and
reducing root development. A Sec
ond generation will develop in Au-
gust and might do damage to beet
fields in the western part of the
state, but the sugar companies are
on the alert and have men on the
watch to aid growers in repelling at
tacks
Cost of Butterfat Production Va
ries-How widely the cost of produce
ing butterfat varies is seen in a ;tate-
ment, based on investigations near
Askov, just issued by George A.
Pond of the Minnesota Agricultural
Experiment station.
According to the statement, On 70
farms where 273 cows were reported
the cost of producing a pound of but
terfat varied all the way from 20 A
cents to TIP cents.
The high costs were with cows
which did not yield literally. San
important factor in economy of pro-
ooSt1oh anu Al piOiiC, says WI. O.tl,
sis production per cow" The de-
crease in costs and increase in pro-
fits with increasing production is
quite striking. It takes practically as
much time to feed, care for, and milk
a poor cow as a good one. The poor
cow takes as much space in the barn,
as much equipment, and, in general
as much overhead expense. she re-
quires as much feed to MAINTAIN her
body. The more butterfat cow pro-
duces. therefore, the less will be the
cot Per pound, since the ,ylhead
is distributed over larger number of
POUNDS.
In the Askov territory, the net re-
turns over feed per cow varied all the
way from loss of $3.50 to a re-
turn over feed Of $66. 90. On the av-
erage the net return per COW was
$14.09
Iceless Refrigerator at Small Ex-
pense-F'or homes in which ice re-
Yrigerators or modern electrical cool.
ing devices are not available, mex
pensive iceless refrigerators may be
substituted, according to Mary L.
n,