The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-03-23
New 4-H Leader
For Stearns County
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i Va NNSNAAAAS
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comparative yields Of the various
hybrids as can be found anywhere
in the state. The bulletin covers
the results on yields with SO en-
tries of commercial seed compan-
les and experiment station hybrids
compared to three open pollinated
varieties, namely Murdoch, Golden
King and Minnesota 10. The field
trials were run on farms in repre-
sentative corn growing regions of
Minnesota. These included plots
in Meeker, Ottertail, Goodhue, Cot
tonwood, Rock, Faribault, Houston
and Yellow Medicine counties.
At the present time many by
birds are being offered for sale all
over the county and many of them
are unsuited for the northern edge
of the corn belt where Stearns
county is located. In this bulletin
the various hybrids are grouped in
three groups based on maturity.
In other words, from the amount of
moisture that was present in the
corn at harvest time. A limited
number of copies of the bulletin
are available at the county agents
office. Farmers growing hybrid corn
should find out for themselves
which hybrids are adaptable for
the territory they live in. There
are four hybrids for field corn de-
veloped by the Minnesota expert
ment station. These are min-hy-
birds, 301, 403, 401, and 402. The
former two are generally recon-
mended for territory south of
Stearns county. 401 is a very adap-
table hybrid for this territory.
Minhybrid 402 on the other hand
is earlier than necessary for con-
ditions in Stearns county in most
seasons.
The sign-up for the 1889 AAA
program continues at a brisk rate
in Stearns county. The schools
for community committeeman have
been held and at this time the var
ious committeeman are completing
their job of contracting the remain
ing farmers in the various town
ships who have not yet signed up
on the program. At this time 5000
applications are on file in the coun-
ty agents office for the year 1889.
When the community committee
mems work is completed it is quite
certain that the participation in
the county will reach close to 1000
farms, much higher number than
in previous years. If this number
is secured, about 1870 Of the farms
of Stearns county by number, and
about 1920 of the farm acreage of
the county will be participating. Of
the farms that stay outside the
program a large number are small
tracts of from to 40 acres lying
close to the towns and villages
over the county. Folks who have
not yet signed up and are interested
in doing so should contact the COM
munity committeeman. The list of
committeeman in this community
is as follows:
Lake George, Ben Osendorf; Lake
Henry, John A. Braun; Wildwood,
Jacob Peters; Ashley, Anton Bier
niger; Raymond, Gerrit Jansen;
Melrose, Meinulf T. Meyer; North
Fork, o. w. Kjeldahl; Crow Lake,
Lester Hendrickson, Carl H. Ander-
son; Crow River, Math Zaczkow-
ski; Getty, John ]. Ceynar; Spring
Hill, Albert VanBeck; Sank Centre,
Henry G. Bergman, F. J. Minette.
Four young people from Stearns
county have won awards recently
at the School of Agriculture at I'm
iversity Farm, st. Paul, because Of
outstanding work completed in
summer project work. Mary
Schwinghammer, daughter of I. A.
Schwinghammer, of Albany, was
awarded a gold medal for having
completed the outstanding project
in the Poultry Division. Her pro-
ject dealt with keeping cost ac-
counts on the raising of pullets to
twenty weeks Of age.
Alton Leverson, son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Gust Leverson, Of Brooten, re-
ceived a gold medal for having COM
pleted the most outstanding work
in the Division of Agriculture En-
cheering. His project dealt with
the determination of actual per
hour cost of operating tractor.
Irwin Imdieke, son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Herman G. Imdieke, of Bel
grade, won second place and a sill
yer medal in a Community Better
ment contest, based on the work
which he did in his home commun-
ity as adult leader of a All club.
Earl Boldt, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Louis Boldt, of Paynesville, won
fourth and a bronze medal in this
same contest because of his fine
work which he had done as Junior
Leader in connection with his local
All club.
FSA SUPERVISOR
ANNOUNCES SOIL
CONSERVING LOAN
Farmers unable to participate
in the 1899 soil conservation pro-
gram because Of lack of funds for
voo<arioI IN GARRY ont soil building