The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1926-02-04
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DEPARTMENT FOR THE AGRICULTURISTS
l,4oe Regi.tered for Farm Short
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l,4OS Registered for Farm Short
Course-The Farmers and Home
makers Short Course at University
Farm, January 10 to %, is said by
many persons to have been the best
yet held. There were 1,409 registra-
tions and it is conservatively ,estimat-
ed that 100 or more men who spent
at least a day at the course failed to
have their names recorded. Five
hundred sixty women enrolled, or
about 40 per cent of the total at.
tendance.
"The course came nearer 10 full
filling it's avowed purpose than any
held before it," says DR.. A. v. Storm,
director "The attendance upon class
work was larger than ever. 1t SEEM
ed to me there was more interest than
yer before in the fundamentals of
agriculture actual farming prac-
| tees.
"The experience of the week dem
onstrated that we can house our
farmers course students in nearby
homes, thus making it possible to
hold the course when both school and
college are in session. This is of
distinct advantage to short course
students as we'll as to the young men
and women in school and college,"
Martin County Walks off with Corn
Prizes-Theodore Zieman of Fair
mont, Martin county, won the grand
champion sweepstakes with 10 ears
of yellow dent corn exhibited at the
annual seed show of the Minnesota
Crop Improvement association at
I University Farm, January Is to %.
Close to him was C. L. Blanchar of
Sherburn, also in Martin county, who
was awarded the grand champion
sweepstakes for his 50-ear exhibit.
Trophy cups were awarded Ed
| Voosen of Fairmont for the cham
pion single ear; Albert p. Anderson
of Dassel for the best 10 ears of No.
l13 corn; Theodore Zieman of Fair
mont for the best 10 ears in the south
ern section and for the grand cham
pion sweepstakes of 10 ears in state ;
Arthur Norum of HaHock for sweep
stakes peck of oats in state; Ed
Dvorack of Warren for sweepstakes
peck of wheat, and Charles H. Lien
of st. Cloud for best peck of six-row
barley.
Sweepstakes in the potato show
were won by Clifford Adams of Co.
hasset, Itasca county, who exhibited
the best samples of late potatoes. W..
L. Coleman of Shovel Lake, Aitkin
county, had the best early varieties.
First place in the professional con-
test was won by Robert Featherstone
of Goodland, Itasca county.
John w. Evans of Montevideo
was elected president of the Crop
Improvement association. Frank
Gibbs Of St. Paul was chosen treas
urer; R. F. Grim of University
Farm, secretary, and A. D. Haze
decke, also of University Farm, as
sistant secretary. A. C. Cooper of
St. Cloud and C. E. Brown were
elected to honorary life member
ships.
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Simpson to Address State Well
Drillers-Howard E. Simpson, pro-
fessor of geology in the University of
North Dakota, will give the address
at the banquet Wednesday evening,
February 10, which will feature the
fourth annual convention of the Min
nesota Well Drillers' association to be
held at University Farm, St. Paul,
February 9 TO IL inclusive. Moving
pictures will be used to illustrate the
address. The Great Northern Male
Quartet of St. Paul will sing, and
r. D. Hughes will appear i'm a group
of special songs. Besides listening to
a series of addresses convention days,
the well drillers will stage a rope
splicing contest and will hold their
regular business meeting. Agricul-
tural engineers of the university will
have leading parts on the program.
Budget Making Taught in Home
makers Class-Budget making, to
the end that the family income may
be used to the best advantage pos
sible, was one of the principal SUBJ
jects kept before women of the state
who attended the recent short course
for homemakers at University Farm.
Mrs. Clara Ingram Judson of Chicago,
housekeeper, author and budget ex-
pert, led Che discussions.
Mrs. Judson said the main things
to be considered in planning a budget
were savings, operating expenses,
food, clothing, advancement, and
iuAuTy. mOHey is q COcl IOr SeU-
ting material things" she said. s'Ma-
terial things are not so important as
spiritual, but one can probably be
more spiritual when warm and COM
Portable than otherwise.
In making budget she advised
the class women to foot up the total
amount of the family income for the
last fve-year period and to base the
budget on the yearly average of re-
ceipts. "Money saved and invested
is money spent in buying an income
and increasing a sense of security"
she said. "Find out what your mon
ey will do and what it won't do and
do not try to do everything with it."
States First Bacon Pig Club Or
ganized-Sixteen boys in Mower
county have been organized into the
first bacon club in Minnesota by T.
A. Erickson, the state club leader,
and other extension workers, writes
F. l.. Liebenstein, county agent.
The name, HORNED Bacon Pig Club,
was adopted and officers elected. Each
boy obtained a purebred Yorkshire
gilt on share basis from the George
A. HORNED Co., which for the first
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