The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1930-01-30
SUCCESSFUL SHORT
COURSE CLOSES SAT
Many Stearns County Farm
ers Take Special Work at
University Farm
PROMINENT SPEAKERS
Value in Handling Agricultur-
al Problems Generally
Recognized

dents of Stearns county attended
the sixteenth annual farmers and
Homemakers' Week at University
Farm, the week of January 20 to
25. This years short course was
one of the largest that has ever
been sponsored by the University
Department of Agriculture, the at
tendance reaching a total of nearly
1000 and including representatives
from practically every county in
the state.
Names of those who were pres
ent from Stearns county follows:
Atwood, Fred c., st. Cloud; Beh7
mem, Celia, Richmond; Bchncn,
Hubert, Richmond; Rinettner,
Nuke, Roscoe; Braegelmann, Thick
la, Richmond; Imdicke, Mrs. Ben,
Brooten; Lien, c. H., st. Cloud;
Mindach, Ralph, Roscoe; Nichaus,
Joseph, Melrose; Quisenberg, Lloyd
r., Georgeville; Schwinghamer, Ed
mund, Albany; Sieverding, Mary,
Richmond; Sister Annina, st. Jo-
seph; Sister Servatia, st. Joseph;
Stitch, Alex, Albany; Weber, Greg
DRY H., Richmond; Willenbring,
John A., Richmond; Kolts, Bene-
dict, st. Cloud; Kolts, John st.
Cloud; Kuhl, Joseph, st. Martin;
Nietfeld, Arnold H., Melrose; Met
field, John T., Melrose; Benrick-
son, Martha, Kimball; Pirt, Lena
Roscoe; Salmela, Sylvia, Kimball;
Weber, Lena, Roscoe; Foreman, L..
j., Paynesville; Kruger, w. A.
Paynesville; Landwehr, Clemens,
st. Cloud; Odell, Emil, Brooten;
Peschek, F., Sank Centre; Erpeld-
ing, Frank, Watkins; Lien, Mrs.
Charles, ST. Cloud; Weisman, Mar
tin, Rockville; Boldt, Osten w., ST.
Cloud; Buethia, Mike; Helm, H. A.
Paynesville; Leyendecker, Marga-
ret, Roscoe; Lien, Mrs. Charles H.
st. Cloud; MuCullock, T. B., st.
Cloud; Mumm, Othmar, Cold
vile.
The week" was a decidedly
busy one, with many important
meetings of statewide organiza'
tons taking place in addition to 2
full daily program of classes, DEM
onstrations, and lectures, and en-
tertainment features occupying
each noon and evening. More than
100 different speakers were on the
program this year, including over
a hundred from the university staff
and more than so from outside, a
number of these being from other
states.
Two outstanding events which
were open to short course members
this year were the recognition ban
quets for Master Farmers of the
Northwest and for Minnesota Pre-
mier Seed Growers. These took
place on Monday and Tuesday eve
nings respectively. Important
statewide farm organizations which
held annual meetings during the
week included the Minnesota Farm
Bureau Federation, the State Poul-
try Breeders association, the Min
nesota Crop Improvement associa-
ton, the Minnesota Livestock
Breeders association, and the Ten
Year club, an organization of men
and women who have attended 10
or more Farmers and Homemak-
era weeks.
Head1iners on the speaking pro-
gram this year were Sam Thomp-
Iison, president of the American
Farm Bureau Federation; C. ".
Gregory, editor of the Prairie
Farmer, Chicago, Henry A. Wal
lace, editor of Wallace's Farmer,
Des Moines; Dean w. c. Coffey of
the University Department of Agri-
culture; and many others promi-
nent in Minnesota's and the ma
tons affairs.
Both DR.. A. v. Storm, director
of University Farm Short Courses,
and Dean Coffey declare that this
was the most successful short
course yet held.
The sentiment of the short
course was well summed up by
Dean w. c. Coffey in his address
on Friday evening at the annual
Farmers and Homemakers' supper
when he said that the unusual in
terest displayed in all phases of
the Farmers and Homemakers'
Week reflected the interest that APP
parently is being taken throughout
the state in educational activities
related to agriculture. He pointed
out that the enrolment in the ag-
vi oalIaoo &c tho Oroofoct in