The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-06-22
Weed Control
Meets Open
June 10th
Series Will Commence
In Sank Centre At
Community Club Rooms
METHODS
Community Action
Necessary To Conduct
Program In Best Way


In order to get the weed control
program in Stearns county UNDER
way, a series Of meetings will be
held In the western part of the
county beginning next Monday.
These meetings are to acouaint
farmers with the weed problem and
to offer the best information on con-
troll methods. Next year meetings
will be held in the eastern part of
the county to cover similar mater
ial. The schedule of meetings is
as follows:
June 26-8:00 p. M, Sank Centre.
Community Club Rooms.
June N-8:00 p. M, Melrose, Viii
lage Hall.
June 2s-s:OO p. M, Brooten, Leg
ion Hall.
June $500 p. NJ, Belgrade,
Opera House.
June 30-8:00 p. M. Paynesville,
Lower Village Hall.
July $500 p. M, Padua, Ray
mond Town Hall.
July $500 p. m, Elrosa, Church
Hall.
July $500 p. m, Freeport, VIII
lage Hall.
With some primary noxious weeds
like leafy spurge, creeping jenny,
Canada thistles and others making
inroads in the county, the county
agents office at St. Cloud has
deemed 1t advisable to get action
underway in all townships of the
county in order to keep abreast
with these weeds.
Weed control work has been car
ried on in the county for a number
Of years but until recently it was
next to impossible to do anything
with some of the newer and ap-
proved methods of weed control
such as spraying with chlorate
chemicals. Last year the board Of
county commissioners purchased a
weed sprayer and placed a man in
charge. These facilities are avail
able for use both on public and
private property. Many Of the
townships are in need of weed
spraying work on township roads.
Likewise the bad infestations on
county roads will be taken care Of
with the county outfit. n
Private individuals who wish to
use the sprayer need only to pur-
chase the chemicals to be used in
connection Herewith. Black fall
low methods and other weed con-
troll angles will be covered at the
above meetings. In order to put a
weeks program over in the best way,
community action is necessary.
This is especially true with weeds
like Canada thistles where the rip
ened seeds blow for a considerable
area. All farmers and landowners
interested in the weed program are
urged to attend these meetings.
Fourteen Stearns county All
members were in attendance at
State All Week in st. Paul, June
12-15. The event attracted some
15OO-1600 All members from all
parts Of Minnesota. The delegates
took in classes pertaining to better
practices in agriculture and home
economics in the forenoons. The
afternoons were devoted to tours
Of the State Capitol, Minnesota
Historical Society Building, Dayton
Company, Land O'Lakes and Como
Park.
Governor Stassen, Dean Coffey
and other leading men and women
Of our state and nation addressed
the group at the assemblies.
Hubert Bielejeski, Of Holdingford,
represented Stearns county in the
better groomed boy; Florence Oh
man, Of Belgrade, in the better
groomed girl contest. Claude Kuhl,
of st. Martin, was the federation
delegate; Earl Boldt, of Paynesville,
Erwin Molitor, of Cold Spring, and
Hubert Bielejeski, Of Holdingford.
composed the Stearns county All
poultry judging team. Erwin and
Gilbert Molitor, of Cold Spring,
competed in the Poultry Production
Demonstration contest and Dor
othy and Ruth Wolf, of Paynes-
vile, competed in the Poultry Con-
sumption Demonstration contest on
Wednesday.
The other delegates from Stearns
county were Harriette Knutson, Of
Brooten, Ted johnson, of Kimball,
Elaine Barrett, of Clearwater, Ed
wilma Bromenschenkel, of st. Cloud,
Marie Orban and Marcella Meier,
of Albany.
Railroad trips for the Stearns
county delegation were donated by
the Great Northern, 500, and North
Pacific railroads.