The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-09-07

Farm, soybeans reach their highest
feeding value and yield when the
pods are well filled and before too
many of the leaves drop. The low
er leaves turn yellow at this stage
and indicate the proper cutting
time. Most soybeans in Stearns
county are now about ready to be
cut, according to the county agents
office. If beans are put in about
May 18th they are generally ready
to cut the last week of August or
the first week of September. Later
varieties may take a week or ten
days longer.
The most sensible way of harvest
ing beans fer hay is with a grain
binder. In this case the bundles
should be made small and put up
in narrow shocks to dry. The hay,
of course, can be cut with a mower
end handled with a side delivery
rake the same as alfalfa is handled,
but too large quantity of leaves
are lost by handling in this way.
The acreage of hybrid corn grown
in Stearns county is increasing
from year to year. Not all of the
hybrids grown in the county are
however, adapted to conditions
here. Corn growers, according to
the county agents office, must be-
come better students of hybrid
corn. In that respect they must be
familiar to some extent at least
with the blood lines or parentage
back of the various hybrids. They
must also be well informed as to
the maturity of the different n.y.
birds that are offered for sale.
With such topics in mind the Di-
vision of Agronomy at University
Farm has scheduled a corn field
day to be held at University Farm
on Friday, September %, at one
o'clock. At this time the various
station hybrids now being raised
commercially in the state as we'll
as a number of new hybrids that
the station is working with will be
reviewed. At University Farm dur
ing the second week of August a
violent windstorm accompanied by
heavy rain put all hybrid and open
pollinated corn to a severe test. A
good deal of the hybrid and all the
open-pollinated corn is badly lodged
at the Farm. A few of the station
hybrids and those that are being
bred for future distribution stand
up much better than others in
these trials.
Farmers of the county are urged
by the county agents office to at
tend this field day on September
% if possible in order to learn more
about the better types of hybrid
being offered at this time.
One hundred and sixty young
men and women from 40 Minnesota
counties will step off their tractors
and out of their home to become
teachers this fall-teachers of LOO
other young farm and community
leaders-all members of county
rural youth groups.
The 100 will attend district lead
ers' training and educational meet
ings at Ada. Aitkin, Monticello,
Mankato, Rochester, Slayton, and
Alexandria, where they will hear
U. Farm specialists probe farming
and homemaking subjects that
these young people want to hear
about. They will receive the latest
streamlined information on topics
like Hospitality in the Home, Plan
ming the Farm Business, What the
Well Dressed Young Woman Will
Wear, The Possibilities of Getting
Started in Farming in Northeastern
Minnesota, Livestock Diseases,
Wise Selection of Farm Crops, and
Livestock Breeding.
The teaching angle comes in
when these group leaders OR dele
gates-two young men and two
young women-return to their
home counties and put on the les