The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1926-03-25
DEPARTMENT FOR THE AGRICULTURSTS

I merely clip in the late summer and
allow the hay to lay as mulch for
the winter protection. Alfalfa should
be cut in medium bloom or when the
new shoots appear at the crown. The
best quality of hay is obtained by al
lowing the alfalfa to wilt in swath
then curing it by hand. After it
has become properly cured III the
small cocks it is pitched into the
wagon by hand. Using three or
four sings to the load is good prac-
tice and also hastens the unloading.
Every progressive farmer should
raise at least one acre of alfalfa for
every COW he keeps or the equivalent
in other livestock. Some farmers
do not plant alfalfa because it would
make work for them all summer. They
like to have timothy or clover crops
because they can be cleaned up in
one operation allowing them a little
vacation or fishing trip. You can
always tell this type of farmer from
the appearance of his livestock and
other farm operations. Whenever
you find alfalfa you are pretty sure
to find a highly progressive COM
munity.
L. H. Laylin,
Mason, Michigan.
Grower of Champion Bale of AL
falfa 1925 international Hay and
Grain Show, Chicago, Ill.
Free Dairy Show Trip Offered
Minnesota Farm Youth-The Mime
sofa farm boy or girl, chosen as the
state champion dairy calf clum mem
Der in Four-H Boys and Girls Club
work, will be given trip to the
National Dairy Exposition at Detroit
next fall with every expense paid by
the Blue Valley Creamery Institute,
it was announced in Chicago this
week by G. L. Noble, executive sec
rotary of the national committee on
boys and girls club work.
The state dairy calf club champion
for Minnesota will be chosen by I.
A. Erickson, state leader in boys and
girls club work of the extension de-
partment of the college of agricul-
ture. Harvey Kuckenbecker, OWa-
tonna, Minnesota, winner of the 1925
trip offered by the Institute, will not
be eligible to compee this year.
Safe dairy calf club champions
from Iowa, Indiana, Kansas, Ken
lucky, North Dakota, South Dakota,
Nebraska, Illinois. Wisconsin,, Mis-
souri,, Michigan, Minnesota and Okla
homa, will also be guests of the In
stitute at the dairy show, according
to Mr.. Noble.
More than $50 boys and girls from
25 states, most of them state cham
pions in one of the various activities
of the Fourth Club work will at
tend the National Dairy Show. They
will compete for national honors with
their prize winning dairy calves, in
Judging of dairy cattle, and in club
work ADMINISTRATIONS. A big parade
through the arena and a number of
pageants by the youthful farmers are
listed as new additions to this years
show program.
"U" Bgins Farm Cost Study In Red
Valley-G. A. Pond of the farm man
agement section at University Farm,
working in cooperation with G. g..
Selvig of the Northwest School of
Agriculture, has completed organiza-
ton of a new statistical route of %
farms near Crookston. The route will
be maintained three years for the
purpose of keeping cost and produc-
ton records and making a study of
comparatively new types of crops in
the region.
Cost studies will be carried on in
connection with small grain farming.
Dairy husbandry and potato and sug-
ar beet growing are developing year
by year. Hogs, and poultry are also
becoming important factors and more
sweet clover and alfalfa are being
grown yearly. Records will be kept
on all the different enterprises for
the purpose of finding profitable
crops and livestock combinations to
replace wheat farming which, be-
cause of decreasing yields, is rapid
ly declining.
The work at Crookston will be
similar to that of the route at Askov,
Pine county, where dairying, poul-
ry keeping, and potato growing are