The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1927-02-17
By Growing More and Bet
ter Alfalfa This Loss Can
Be Eliminated
EXPERT HERE MONDAY
Every Farmer For Miles
Should Attend Alfalfa
Meeting

Monday, Feb. 81, will be AL
falfa Day in Sank Centre.
Every farmer in the territory
adjacent to Sank Centre should
be vitality interested in the develop
ment of the Alfalfa acreage in
this section.
Alfalfa does not rob the soil,
but puts more back into it than it
takes out.
: The meeting will be held at the
Caughren theatre starting at 1 100
p. m. During the afternoon the
four reel picture made under the
direction of the St. Cloud Daily
Times, depicting Stearns county
from the pioneer days down to the
present, will be shown. The film
is entitled "The Chronicle of
Time" 1t has been shown at Min
neapolis, Chicago, ST. Cloud, and
other points, and is said to be a
splendid piece of work.
The big feature of the after
noon meeting will be the address
by G. E. Hutcheson, known all
over the Northwest as alfalfa
Hutch. /" The gentleman is thor
oughly posted on his subject.
The Herald hopes the farmers
and their wives for many miles in
every direction of Sank Centre
will attend next Mondays meet
ing.
In a recent interview discussing
Alfalfa and it's worth and neces-
sity on the farm Mr.. Hutchinson
said:
eff I only had some alfalfa
or if I only put in more alfalfa
is the common every day message
that / get from farmers in Central
Minnesota these days. / am glad
that I can come right back and
say with clear conscience that
two years ago and ever since I
have been doing my best to awak-
en- everyone to the great loss far
mers are suffering because they
have not "An Acre of Alfalfa for
Every Minnesota Cow" While
others have been saying oh! he
will override this alfalfa business
cover $1,000,000 is being lost
every year, now with your pres
ent hay crops and roughage crops
on farms within 80 miles of st.
Cloud. If you had had can Ac-
re of Alfalfa for Every Cow" in
this territory then there would be
over one million dollars more pro-
fit from your dairy cows. These
are the cold, cold facts. Feed
bills or no feed bills, it is either
profitable dairying or improbable
dairying.
alfalfa and corn are the two
cheapest home grown feeds that
you can raise for your cows. 1t
is cheaper to buy corn than it is
alfalfa hay. Alfalfa hay is the
most profitable and the cheapest
and the earliest to raise when you
once get onto "the hang of it,,
as the fellow said the other day
at the Seed Show in st. Cloud.
100000 will go out of Cen
trail Minnesota for alfalfa, and clo-
yer hay and other protein feeds
during the first few months of
this year. Wouldn't it be fine to
have that old hundred thousand
dollars to put in the bank, or for
better machinery, stock, build
ings or for some Of, the many long
wished for and much needed
things for the home.
"I doubt very much if you or /
will ever see the time when alfalfa
will be over produced in this sec
ton of the state. There are too
many uses for it and we are
learning to appreciate many OF
these every day that we never
| thought of before.
eff all the cows of Minnesota
could get together for a meeting
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