The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1937-06-17
Bi-County
r. B. Picnic
On June p
Lake Koronis, Paynesville,
Will Be Scene of Agri-
cultural Gathering
). METZCER SPEAKER
Horse Pulling Contest And
Other Entertainment AS
Program Features

Reports coming from various
parts of Stearns county seem to in
dictate that next Tuesday, June
22nd, will be great agricultural
holiday as far as Stearns county is
concerned. The reason for this is
that joint Farm Bureau picnic
between Stearns and Meeker coun-
ties is scheduled to be held at the
South Koronis Community Park on
that day. ..
Farm Bureau units from various
parts Of the county are preparing
to eat their noon lunch in a group
and will make their identity known
to other groups Of the county in
various ways.
No effort has been spared by the
two county organizations in pre-
pairing the details in connection
with next Tuesdays picnic. With
the loudspeaking equipment that
will be erected on the grounds for
the day, George E. MetZger, secre-
tary of the Illinois Agricultural AS
ISOLATION, will have a splendid OPP
portunity to carry his message to
great number of people. Mr.. Metz
ger comes from Illinois, the great
est Farm Bureau state in the Un-
ion. He is a farmer and one of the
leading farm leaders Of America.
He is responsible for that great Or
ganization which has a Farm Bur-
eau membership fee of SIS year
with 10000 paid members for the
cfoto Tho cooparot ;1a ocfi1rif;oc ",
Illinois are carried on very largely
through Farm Bureau sponsorship
and Mr.. Metzger has been the lead
err in the development of such &C
tivity. He is aggressive, vigorous
and trained speaker, and any
county organization is fortunate in
having him as speaker.
For a special feature the horse
pulling contest under the direction
of Byron r. Virtue, extension engin-
eer of Iowa State College, will be
held. IF enough farm teams are en-
tered they will be grouped in two
classes: Glass 1, those weighing I'M
der 5000 pounds, and Glass 2, those
weighing 5000 or over. For this
event the Iowa State College trac-
ton dynamometer unit has been
secured and this outfit registers in
actual pounds the pull of each
team entered. Liberal prizes will be
awarded for the various winners
in this pulling contest. Under the
plans by which the pulling contest
will be conducted, a committee of
two judges will assist the official
engineer in making decisions that
are necessary The length of the
pull on this contest Is 271s feet and
shorter pulls are used only to de-
termine winners when two or more
teams fail to pull the full distance
Of 27h feet. Teams entered in this
contest will be started out at a
light pull, say 1900 pounds and the
load will gradually be raised in Is
pound units, until the various
teams are eliminated as the weight
of the pull goes up. The dynamom-
eter unit is equipped with a drivers
seat and every entrant is expected
to drive his team with the lines
from the drivers seat. Farmers en-
tering teams in the contest should
come prepared with a ticket from
a weighmaster somewhere showing
the weight Of the team they have
entered. This horse pulling contest
will be held at 1920 in the fore
noon.
During the noon hour families at
tending will be furnished with cof-
fee, cream and sugar, donated by
the two county Farm Bureaus, but
they are asked to bring their own
lunch for the event. The Paynes-
vile Drum and Bugle Corps will
put on an exhibition during the
noon hour. The platform program
will begin at 1:3O and will last
about two hours after which the
remaining sports events will be
carried out.