The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1931-07-30
Experimental Work at the
Morris Ag. School Inspected
Minnesota Participate In An
nual Station Day

ZION Lay conducted on FRIDAY, July
"a, at the Morris Agricultural
School and Experiment Station. A
feature of the inspection was a trip
to a 60-acre quack grass eradica.
ton project. This 60-acre field was
badly infested with quack and has
been producing poor crops for a
number Of years. Last year the
field was in alfalfa, the first crop
being taken off and erdiction of
quack started on July q, 1880. The
field was plowed, disced and then
spring toothed eight times at reg
ular intervals. Late in the fall the
field was plowed a second time and
spring toothed once before the
ground froze up. This spring the
ground was narrowed and seeded to
fax. The farmers taking part; in
the inspection made a close exam
ination of the field but failed to
find any quack, indicating that the
bare fallow method practised dur
ing the last half of the season prov
ed very successful. The fax now
in the field promises to give a very
good yield.
Another new project at the sta
ton which drew the attention of the
visitors was a windbreak on the
north side of the campus. This
windbreak is made up of Green Ash
and Colorado Spruce. The Green
Ash. were bought as two to three
feet trees and were set out in 1928.
The Colorado Spruce were bought
as seedlings, grown in an ever
green nursery for six years and set
out in the spring of 1880. Both
kinds of trees have made especially
good growth, are especially hardy
and well suited to West Central
Minnesota conditions.
Besides these two features the in
spection trip covered the field crops
experiments, and trip through the
barns and feeding lots. A picnic
lunch at noon with free coffee and
cream supplied by the school next
occupied the attention of he visi-
tors. During the noon hour guess
ing contests were conducted in
which the participants were called
to estimate the weight of a steer
weight per bushel, of a number of
grain samples and the number OF
eggs produced by the mother of a
rooster on exhibition Prizes
awarded the winners consisted of
enough grain to seed one acre for
the livestock and grain contests,
and the rooster was given to the
lucky winner in this contest. The
afternoon speaking program was
held in the school auditorium. Prof
P. s. Jordan, of the faculty presid-
ed and introduced the speakers.
The first speaker was DR.. w. E
Peterson of the Dairy Department
of the University of Minnesota who
gave very interesting talk on Ere.
cent Developments of the Univer.
sity of Minnesota Dairy Depart.
ment." He described feeding exper.
iments in which various minerals
were fed to dairy cattle and gave
some valuable suggestions on the
feeding of minerals. He also talked
at some length on how milk is Sc.
GREETED and described several in
teresting experiments in which an
imals were slaughtered and theil
udders suspended and later milke6
out. From fundamental studies
have come several things of g
practical nature, one of which is 8
test used in the dairy industry fol
testing ice cream and other dairy
products. He also described the de
velopment of the calcium chloride
method of treatment for milk few
er. His talk was very interesting
and well received.
The next speaker was Supt. P. E
Miller of the West Central Schoo
who spoke on Agricultural Con
ditions in Europe" Mr.. Miller de
scribed the agriculture of France
Italy, Germany, Denmark and Eng
land. He said that the thing thai
impressed him greatly was the fac
that the farmers in Europe used {
great deal of hand labor. They
farm in very intensive manner
and give close attention to small de
tails. In speaking Of the market
ing system Of Denmark, Mr.. Miller
stated that out Of every dollar pai(
by the English consumer for Dan
ish products, eighty cents cam,
back to the Danish farmer. Coop
Grafton is developed to very higl
point in Denmark and the Danish
farmer has profited greatly by it,
development. England, stated Mr.
Miller, is largely grass country de
voted to the grazing of flocks ant
herds. He said that the farm owne
employs great deal of help ant
is especially insistent that his live
stock be taken care of in the bes
manner possible. Mr.. Millers tall
gave everyone present better in
sight into world agricultural con
| ditions and was much appreciate,
by all. With the conclusion of hi
talk the scheduled program was ov
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