The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1933-07-20
Big Crowd Attends
Morris Station Day
LILO Enjoy Program at West Cen
trail Agricultural School, July
12-Dean COffey Speaks

A record crowd of LOO interested
visitors took part in the Annual
Station Day held at the West Cen
trail School at. Morris on Wednes-
day, July II. Early ins the day cars
began pouring into the campus and
by noon, when the barbecue dinner
was served, the large campus of
the Farm School was filled with
farmers and their families from
all parts of West Central Minneso-
ia. This is the largest crowd to
attend a Station Day program in
recent years, stated Supt. P. e.
Miller.
The morning program was fea-
tured by an inspection of the ex-
periments in soils and plant breed
ing in charge of r. o. Bridgford,
Station Agronomist. The extreme
drought conditions have brought
out many interesting developments
in the progress of work during the
present season. One of the out
standing observations the visitors
made was the drought resistance of
the new spring wheat, Minnesota
2303, as compared with Marquis.
DR.. H. K. Wilson, Chief Plant
Breeder of the Experiment Station,
estimated that this new wheat
would make yield fully twice as
large as Marquis on adjoining plots.
1t is expected that this new variety
which is of splendid milling quality
and rust resistant as well as a re-
markable dry weather wheat, will
be released to the growers for the
first time in the spring of 1884. In
the Animal Husbandry experiments
the cross breeding work that has
been carried on with swine at the
Morris Station for the past three
years was reported on and the re-
suits obtained were given to the
visitors by Prof. L. M. Winters and
P. S. Jordan. The Station is work
ing out practical method Of put
ting such a program into effect on
the average farm. The results OBJ
tanned at Morris as explained by
Prof. Winters indicated that there
was a saving of SO per cent in
feed in producing 220 ID. cross
bred market hog as compared with
pure bred pigs and 9h per cent
feed saving in favor Of double cross
ed pigs as compared with pure bred.
These experiments were of much in
terest to those in attendance and
it is expected that they will point
the way toward lower hog produc-
ton costs.
The AFTERNOON program featured
Dean w. G. Coffey o. the Univer-
sity of Minnesota, department of Ag-
riculture. Dean Coffey gave a very
| instructive and interesting talk on
recent developments in Agricultur-
al Legislation, explaining at some
| length the proposed wheat market
| ing domestic allotment plan now
being put into operation by Sec
rotary of Agriculture Wallace. Dean
Coffey stated that in his opinion
| the American farmer would have
to depend largely upon domestic
market for his product for the next
few years. He sketched the his
tory of rising agricultural produc-
ton in the United States and ex-
planned the reason for the neces-
sity of controlled production In the
future. I'VE shall have to use
more intelligence in production
under the controlled plan than
ever" the speaker stated. Cooper
alton is necessary and if the plans
are to succeed it is entirely UP to
the farmer to give that copera-
tion," concluded Dean Coffey.