The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-10-05
Farm News
-By County aSen


ued war, the British emergency
farm program has called for 2
millionaire increase in titled area
for the 1910 harvest. This includes
IL million acres for England and
Wales; 100000 acres for Scotland,
and $500 acres for Northern Ire
land.
To encourage this, a subsidy of
about $8.08 an acre will be paid
on approved grass land plowed up
before December 81, 1889. Restric-
tions on the production of all pro-
ducts Except hops) have been re-
moved. Farmers have been urged
to sow as much winter wheat as
possible and to make large in
creases in oats, barley, flax, and
potato acreage next spring.
This information is reported by
John Terwey, chairman of the
Stearns county agricultural conser-
walton committee, from a recent u.
S. Dept. of Agriculture statement
on foreign crops and markets. Mr..
Terwey said that this action of
Great Britain, coupled with pres
ent large world supplies of food
stuffs, is another reason for U. S.
farmers to stay within their acre
age allotments.
At the same time, it is reported
that the estimated 1889 rye produc-
ton of IA countries is about IL
million bushels larger than report
ed by the same countries in 1888.
The importation of all essential
foodstuffs into the United Kingdom
will be handled in the future by
the Food Ministry, a governmental
agency. This agency is contract
ing now for food supplies, while
prices are somewhat reasonable,
but will defer delivery until pro-
ducts are needed and the shipping
situation is improved. Besides
handling the importation of food
stuffs, this agency will also handle
their distribution. 1t has already
set the maximum prices for such
foodstuffs.
Recently a number of the All
members who will feed baby beef
calves for competition in 1910 plac-
ed requests with the county agents
office at St. Cloud for western
calves. AS announced earlier thru
the extension office, these calves
will be available in all of the three
beef breeds, namely Shorthorn,
Hereford and Angus. Other club
members contemplating joining the
baby beef project for the coming
year and who still have not Sc
cured calves locally for feeding
purposes are urged to secure some
of these calves. For several years
now in Stearns county it has been
found through experience that the
best calves in the county that fin
ally win trips to the Junior Live
stock Show are generally fed for
an entire year. That being the
case club members who plan to
feed for 1910 should endeavor to
get in almost whole year of feed
ing in order to compete satisfact-
orily with the other better fed
calves in the county.
This year Stearns county will be
represented at the Junior Livestock
Show at South st. Paul with five
baby beef entries. Two of these
five that stood in second and third
place at the county fair are calves
that were secured from the west
ern states last fall.
Fourteen of the 81 All clubs of
Stearns county have a 100 percent
finish-up for the year 1889. These
clubs are as follows:
Belgrade, Brooten Busy Bees,
Paynesville-Koron Raymond Ash
ley, Eden Valley, Richmond Lake
side, Gopher Prairie, Rockville,
Lake George, Sank Valley. LeSauk.