The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1927-02-17
Central Minnesota Farmers
Losing $1,000, 900 Yearly
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to discuss what they needed to do
this coming year to produce, not
so much butter fat butt cheaper
butter fat, they would cry out-we
want, San Acre of Alfalfa For
Each of Us. /"
"When ] was eleven years old
had to milk seven cows every
night and every morning. Please
notice that / said I had to milk.
Now I didn't like it any better
than any other boy does of that
age. But now / know that if
those cows had all the alfalfa hay
they could eat Dad wouldn't need
ed to have kept so many cows and
that would undoubtedly have cut
my number down to not over five.
That is the big profit-less cows
and more profit - with proper
feed.
'Too often we look at things
through a cloudy screen. Every
farmer is trying to make more
money to meet expenses. He farms
more acres expecting Ito get great
er profit by volume while in many
cases he could cut down on num-
bers and increase the net profits.
A salesman may make lot of
calls and not sell half the goods
that another would sell to half the
number of calls. Thoroughness
in our agricultural work has been
a too much neglected topic.
"Most people look at somebody
else to blame for their own troub-
les and mistakes. I have about
come to the conclusion that / must
examine my own work and actions
closer and closer, rather than ex-
pect to get by blaming the other
fellow.
"Thoroughness is the first reso-
luton that one should make in
starting out with alfalfa raising
from the time you start to prepare
the seed bed until you-have it in
the barn. 1t will pay.
CAT the present price of oats,
alfalfa hay properly cured is
worth $29.50 per ton for protein
feed for livestock and the alfalfa
has over ten times the value of
oats as to it's mineral value. Re
member it takes 3 to a acres to
raise as much real available food
in oats as there is in one average
acre of alfalfa. 1t also takes
about the same number of acres
of corn to equal the animal food
there is in one average acre of
alfalfa. And all the time alfalfa
is the greatest of soil builders.
Yes! it is hard work putting up
hay, but it is hot and dirty plow-
ing corn and then you almost have
to give the corn away to get it
husked in the fall, if you do get
it in before it is showed under.
"Well, here is the kind of mes
sages that make me feel happy and
also shows me that some are max
ing real progress. Last week a
friend farmer that I urged to pat
in Is acres of alfalfa said: 4
raised more than enough good al
falfa hay for my own use. So ]
sold enough to pay for my new
side delivery rake and hay loader
and had almost enough left to pay
the taxes
Gust today a land owner told
a group of us over the line in
Meeker county "My alfalfa land
was real good pay this year.
got $50 cash for my share per
acre of alfalfa He did not say
what the net was ON the other
crops. Yes! and I say the figures
and checks for an owners one
half, for his alfalfa from a forty
acre field, that averaged just $50
per acre for him. / guess he can
pay the taxes, even though they
may be a little high.
"Marl beds are right here in
Central Minnesota. Our good
student of progress C., D. Brow
er of Kimball says: The Good
Lord put those Mari beds here for
a purpose. He, the wisest of all,
knew that some day we would have
to raise alfalfa and by that time
the lime would be all used up or
drained out of the top soils. There
fore this needed and essential ma
terial is right here for us to use.
Yes! it is right here and can be
secured at a very low cost. We
will have more to report later
about results that farmers have
secured by using mari in this Sec
ton.
eff / owned some of the cows
that ] see in some fields, I would
sure ship them to South st. Paul
and buy lot of old alfalfa and
sweet clover seed and then get
busy and haul a lot of this Central
Minnesota mari ready for spring
use and then with the proper feed,
the other COWS would more than
make up for the ones that We're
sold. The less work would not
hurt anyone either, would it?
Lime is the one thing that
paves the way for alfalfa and
sweet clover. Mari is the cheap
est way for you to get lime if
you have a bed within driving dis
lance. Blast the mari when froz-
en- and haul it out on the sled.
| You can hau1 from two I'm thraa